Aut Deus aut Machina

If causality holds true, and one thing causes another, even outside this universe, then whatever entity is postulated as the creator of the world must have the same questions asked of it. The first is: What created this entity? But we find that God is eternal and therefore improbable, and a universe-generating equally improbable. Supposing that these are the only possibilities, for the sake of argument, we first see that neither is obviously more likely than the other. Next, ignoring any mathematical objections to either the Multiverse or God, we ask, "which is more intuitive with my philosophy?" The easiest test for the Creator of all things is the personality argument.

We start this line of thought with man. Man assumes his own existence. He must then decide whether he has a personality, and would therefore come from a personal Creator, or whether he comes from an impersonal "machine," such as the supposed multiverse. If he assumes the former, he finds God. The latter, however, offers several conclusions. Man is labeled a machine, "God is Dead," and it becomes absurd to postulate things, since we are machines anyway. If God is dead, then man simply becomes a hedonistic, impersonal machine, tearing down every intuitive argument for ethics and goodness, and overall debasing man.

In order to have any belief in Love or Goodness, then, we must realistically postulate a Creator, a Personal God, or we must deny everything which we have ever believed. Aut Deus aut Machina.