by Jason Stotts
If you grant the principle that ex nihilo, nihil fit (from nothing, nothing comes) then you are necessarily atheist. No matter what other attributes you predicate of a god, the most important is that of the “creator”. Yet, if nothing can come from nothing, then this god could not have created everything: it has always existed.
If you don’t grant ex nihilo, nihil fit, then you have some interesting epistemological work to do (I believe it’s called rationalization).