The existence - or lack of - a God is one of humanity's fundamental questions. Since the first birth, the first sunrise, the first death, humans have sought to explain the world around them. The whole of human existence, in the end, comes down to this: Is there a God?
Matter as we know it can be neither created nor destroyed, only converted. All we can see, measure, and know shows us that matter and energy have always existed (a difficult concept to grasp, but far easier than saying the same thing about a deity which himself breaks those laws). So our question becomes: “Does a being live today that possesses the ability to break the laws of physics as we know them and create the universe”
Sadly and anticlimactically, we can soon end the discussion.
Since the laws of physics are well defined and tested, we would need ample evidence that the laws of physics have been broken or at least horribly misunderstood. However, we have none. We have no evidence anywhere that matter or energy has been created from non-matter. There is no evidence that this ever occurred, and we have no valid theories that would support such an instance. Separating the topic from the “existence of a god that can change the laws of physics” to one where no gods are involved – a situation where the laws of physics are said to have been broken and matter has been created from nothingness -- will yield an unbiased answer.
There cannot be a god.
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