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If God Created Everything, Who Created God?
by Rich Deem

如果天主创造了万物，那谁创造了天主呢？

Introduction

介绍

How did God get here?天主是怎么来的？

    Richard Dawkins, among other atheists, thinks he has the ultimate proof that God doesn't exist. If God created a complex universe, wouldn't it take an even more complex entity to    have created God? However, such logic assumes that time has always existed, rather than being merely a construct of this universe.

Rich Deem
Richard Dawkins, 无神论者中的一员，认为他可以最终证明天主不存在。如果天主创造了一个复杂的宇宙，那是不是应该有一位更复杂的实体创造天主呢？但是，这样的逻辑前提是时间是永远存在的，而不仅仅只限于我们当前宇宙的形成。

Who created God? It is an age-old question that has plagued all those who like to think about the big questions. Having grown up as an agnostic non-Christian, it provided me with   a       potential reason why there might not be any god. Various religions tend to solve the problem in different ways. The LDS church (Mormonism) says that the God (Elohim) to whom we are      accountable had a father god, then grew up on a planet as a man, and progressed to become a  god himself. Many other religions have claimed that gods beget other gods. Of course the     problem with this idea is how did the first god get here? This problem of infinite regression invalidates such religions. Christianity claims that God has always existed. Is this idea    even possible? Does science address such issues?
谁创造了天主呢？这个问题对很多喜欢考虑大问题的人困惑已久。作为不可知论非基督徒背景下长大的人，这是我为什么一直不承认主存在的原因。很多宗教用不同的方法来解决这个问题。 摩门教说上帝的“父亲”作为一个人在某个行星上长大，然后渐渐地自己成长成为一个神。别的很多宗教也说神生神。 当然问题是第一个神怎么来的？这种无限制的追溯明显否定了很多宗教团体。基督宗教宣称天主是永远存在的。这种理论这么可能？科学有没有涉及到这种问题呢？ 

Christianity's answer基督宗教的答案

    Christianity answers the question of who created God in the very first verse of the very first book, Genesis:
基督宗教在圣经的第一部分创世纪第一章第一节开头就回答了谁创造了天主的问题，

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1)
在起初天主创造了天地。（创 1：1）

This verse tells us that God was acting before time when He created the universe. Many other verses from the New Testament tells us that God was acting before time began, and so,     He created time, along with the other dimensions of our universe:
这节告诉我们天主在创造宇宙时还没有时间的存在。在新约的很多章节也告诉我们天主在时间开始之前创造，所以，是他创造了时间和宇宙的其他元素。

•    No, we speak of God's secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God    destined for our glory before time began. (1 Corinthians 2:7) （字面翻译）不，我们所讲的是天主奥秘的智慧，那种隐藏着的智慧，天主在时间开始前就设计好了我们的光荣。
• This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time (2 Timothy 1:9) 这种恩宠在时间开始前就在耶稣基督内给了我们。
• The hope of eternal life, which God... promised before the beginning of time (Titus 1:2) 永生的希望，是天主...在时间开始前就许诺给了我们。
• To the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen. (Jude 1:25) 愿光荣，荣耀，统治权柄因耶稣基督我们的主，归于唯一天主我们的救主，从时间开始前，现在，直到永远。啊们。

God exists in timeless eternity
天主是没有时间的永恒的
How does God acting before time began get around the problem of God's creation? 天主是如何在没有时间的情况下创造宇宙万物的呢？There are two possible interpretations of these verses. 这些章节可有两种不同的理解方式
One is that God exists outside of time.第一种就是天主存在于时间之外 Since we live in a universe of cause and effect, we naturally assume that this is the only way in which any kind of existence can function. 因为我们生活在一个有因果关系的宇宙中，我们自然的认为任何的存在形式都只有一种方式运作。However, the premise is false.但是，我们的前提错了。 Without the   dimension of time, there is no cause and effect, and all things that could exist in such a  realm would have no need of being caused, but would have always existed. 在没有时间的情况下，因果关系是不存在的，并且所有的在此状态下存在的事物都应该是没有任何原因的。Therefore, God has no need of being created, but, in fact, created the time dimension of our universe           specifically for a reason - so that cause and effect would exist for us. 所以，天主是不需要被创造的，而是他创造了我们宇宙的时间，进而我们有了原因，从此一切的因果关系为我们而存在了。     However, since God created time, cause and effect would never apply to His existence.但是，因为是天主创造了时间，因果关系对于他的存在是毫无意义的。

God exists in multiple dimension of time天主的存在于时间的多维形式中

The second interpretation is that God exists in more than one dimension of time. 第二种理解是，天主存在于多维的时间中Things that exist in one dimension of time are restricted to       time's arrow and are confined to cause and effect. 事物存在于一维时间中的要被限制于时间的方向和因果关系However, two dimensions of time form a plane of time, which has no beginning and no end and is not restricted to any single direction.然而，二维的时间形成一个时间平面，也就是没有开始没有结束，所以也就不拘泥于单一的方向 A being that exists in at least two dimension of  time can travel anywhere in time and yet never had a beginning, since a plane of time has no starting point.事物存在于至少二维的时间中可以任时间穿梭而没有开始，因为时间平面是没有始点的。
Either interpretation leads one to the conclusion that God has no need of having been created.任何一种理解方式都可以证明天主不需要被创造。

Why can't the universe be eternal?为什么宇宙不是永恒的？

The idea that God can be eternal leads us to the idea that maybe the universe is eternal,    and, therefore, God doesn't need to exist at all. 天主可以把我们带入永恒这种观点会让我们想到也许宇宙也是永恒的，所以，天主的存在是不必要的。Actually, this was the prevalent belief of atheists before the observational data of the 20^th century strongly refuted the idea that the  universe was eternal.事实上，在20世纪有观察否定宇宙永恒论之前，这种想法在无神论者当中很普遍。 This fact presented a big dilemma for atheists, since a non-eternal universe implied that it must have been caused. 这个发现让无神论者很矛盾，因为如果宇宙不是永恒的，那它一定有它的开始。Maybe Genesis 1:1 was correct!也许创世纪1：1是正确的。 Not to be dismayed by the facts,      atheists have invented some metaphysical "science" that attempt to explain away the existence of God. 无神论者还没有因此泄气， 他们还在发明者一些超自然的“科学”来试图驳倒天主的存在。Hence, most atheistic cosmologists believe that we see only the visible part of a much larger      "multiverse" that randomly spews out universes with different physical parameters.¹ Since    there is no evidence supporting this idea (nor can there be, according to the laws of the    universe), it is really just a substitute "god" for atheists.所以，大部分的无神论星际学家相信，我们看到的只是 多层次的掺杂着不同物理学参数的多元宇宙当中的 可见部分。因为这个观点现在没有任何证据来证实（根据宇宙的定律，这个是不应该存在的），它只是在无神论者当中一个替代“神”。   And, since this "god" is non-intelligent by definition, it requires a complex hypothesis,   which would be ruled out if we use Occam's razor, which states that one should use the       simplest logical explanation for any phenomenon.因为定义中“神”是一个非智能的，所以它需要很多复杂的猜想,而根据“奥卡姆剃刀”原则，任何现象都应该用最简单的逻辑进行解释。Purposeful          intelligent design of the universe makes much more sense, especially based upon what we know about the design of the universe.有目的智慧的创造者创造宇宙更简明而且易懂，尤其是当我们了解到宇宙的设计是多么的精妙。

What does science say about time?科学对于时间是怎么说的？

When Stephen Hawking, George Ellis, and Roger Penrose extended the equations for general     relativity to include space and time, the results showed that time has a beginning - at the  moment of creation (i.e., the Big Bang).当史蒂芬霍金，George Ellis 和Roger Penrose展开广义相对论空间和时间的公式的时候，结果显示时间是有开始的-也就是在创造开始的一刹那（也就是宇宙大爆炸）² In fact, if you examine university websites, you will find that many professors make   such a claim - that the universe had a beginning and that this beginning marked the beginning of time (see The Universe is Not Eternal, But Had A Beginning).事实上，如果你看大学的网站，你会发现很多教授宣称宇宙是由开始的，而且这个开始标志着时间的开始 （参见 宇宙不是永恒的，而是有开始的） Such assertions support the Bible's claim that time began at the creation of the    universe.这样的陈词强有力的证明了圣经阐述的时间是在创造之初开始的。

Conclusion 结论

God has no need to have been created, since He exists either outside time (where cause and   effect do not operate) or within multiple dimensions of time (such that there is no beginning of God's plane of time). 天主不需要被创造，因为他存在于时间之外（因果关系无从影响他）或是在多维的时间当中（在多维时间中没有开始）Hence God is eternal, having never been created.所以天主是永恒的，从没有被创造过。 Although it is possible that the universe itself is eternal,      eliminating the need for its creation, observational evidence contradicts this hypothesis,   since the universe began to exist a finite ~13.7 billion years ago.虽然宇宙本身有可能是永恒的，所以不需要创造，但是实验观察证据与此假设矛盾， 因为宇宙是在有限的约137亿年前开始的。 The only possible escape for the atheist is the invention of a kind of super universe, which can never be confirmed experimentally (hence it is metaphysical in nature, and not scientific).无神论者的唯一出路就是发明一种超级宇宙，而此宇宙从没有任何的实验证明（所以本质上这个理论是超自然，并不符合科学）

                                                                  翻译Danielle