@Johnny Fresh,
Stating that "everything must have a
prima causa because nothing can come from nothing, ergo God exists" does not in the slightest solve the problem. In fact, it only sets it back a further step, sweeping the issue under the sheets so to speak. In fact it only creates a bigger problem. Because if all things must have a cause, then why does that very same logic not apply to god himself?
Think of it like this: in order to create a thing, the creator must be exponentially more complicated than the creation itself. So putting a god into the equation just beggars a higher question-- namely, what higher complexity created him? Then what higher complexity created that (
ad infinitum )?
Occam's razor states that usually the correct solution to a problem is the simplest one. So what is the most simple answer? That the universe itself is self-containing, always extant, or that the universe exists, and in order for its existence, another being must have first existed to create it? It seems a bit like pouring blood on an already dead body to explain a murder.
The fact remains that consciousness is an evolutionary response to cause and effect-- thought is causal. Our minds just weren't evolved to comprehend some questions. How can a photon be both a wave and a particle? How can the universe have never had a beginning? And equally, how could the universe HAVE a beginning? Both questions are completely baffling. We are not made to inherently grasp such conundrums. And attempting to usually forces us into a kind of casuistic thinking which requires us to invent ghosts and phantoms to reason away the inconsistency that is natural for creatures such as ourselves.
But to fall into that kind of reasoning is simplistic and marks a mind incapable of a certain subtlety of thought.