Posted by thepete on Sunday, October 16th at 12:00 PM. [link]

Did God have a mother?” Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.

Michio Kaku (via cwnl)

Awesome to see scientists brave enough to speak openly about the absurdities of religion. In science everyone and everything has a “mother”.  It’s called causality.  If God created the universe, who created God?  If my child asked me, I’d explain: “We humans did because we felt too insecure about our own existence to believe that we were not created on purpose.”

To which, my child would likely reply: “But mommy said I was an accident.”

“Ah! Well, that doesn’t make you any less special, does it?”

I guess I’d be a pretty good parent. :)

(Source: ikenbot)

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