> Now you're left with only one unknown That doesn't make any sense to me. "God created everything" is nearly content-less even if you assume it. If you stop t

> Now you're left with only one unknown That doesn't make any sense to me. "God created everything" is nearly content-less even if you assume it. If you stop there, you're left with nearly zero understanding of how the world/nature/universe works. Inquiry of all sorts (scientific included) is still indispensable for discovering content about the world. > "who/what/how created God?" The only way to know anything about the Christian God, at least, is to look at what he’s done and what he says about himself - again a line of inquiry involving discovery, questions, deductions. > a clean solution where if you accept the premise of God, then any and all follow-on questions just point back to the premise. Agreed, it does tie it up neatly. But again, assuming the Christian God, we have no ability to know anything about him unless he chooses to reveal it (him being an infinite being). And assuming everything that begins to exist has a cause, there must be something that did not begin to exist -- which must then be defined as having no beginning. You might be familiar with logical systems if you're a developer. At the most basic levels, where everything is bootstrapped, a lot of self-references are often involved.