An Evolving God

[Lestat]

One of the most popular assertions that theists make about why there *must* be a Creator, is that the universe is too beautifully complex to have happened by accident or on it's own. Therefore, a creator is not only perfectly reasonable, but it is indeed mandatory.

Of course, they go on to shoot themselves in the foot when trying to account for the very straight forward and reasonable question: "If God created the universe, then what created an even more complicated God?". Unfortunately for theists, this isn't a small proplem. And it is one that just cannot be answered without resorting to the type of circular logic that most non-believers abhor. But they needn't have this problem, because there's actually a very easy out...

All they have to do is claim that God evolved like everything else. Non-believers would have a much harder time responding to that. If the universe (or life on earth), could pop into existence from nothing, then it can't be entirely ununreasonable that God could have done so as well. The real problem lies with the claim that God has always existed in His present form. This of course, isn't reasonable by any logical means. But if God were to have somehow continually evolved and conquered His way to becoming the omnipotent, omniscient being He is today, it at least follows logically.

Of course, there are still many unanswered problems that non-believers will be sure to point out, but at least you have the beginnings of a more reasonable hypothisis. On the other hand, claiming that God always existed in His present form, requires a suspension of logic that no rationalist is willing to make. Nor should it be made.