{"id":12843,"date":"2009-01-24T19:02:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/24\/why-god-cannot-be-the-creator-of-the-universe\/"},"modified":"2009-01-24T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T19:02:36","slug":"why-god-cannot-be-the-creator-of-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/24\/why-god-cannot-be-the-creator-of-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Why God Cannot be the Creator of the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Peikoff <a href=\"http:\/\/aynrandlexicon.com\/lexicon\/god.html\">writes<\/a>, &quot;Is God the creator of the universe? There can be no creation of something out of nothing. There is no nothing.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Peikoff is arguing that God cannot be the creator of the universe because creation is creation of something out of nothing, and there is no nothing.&#0160; Is this a good argument or a bad argument?&#0160; Justify your answer.&#0160; Be clear and concise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard Peikoff writes, &quot;Is God the creator of the universe? There can be no creation of something out of nothing. There is no nothing.&quot; Peikoff is arguing that God cannot be the creator of the universe because creation is creation of something out of nothing, and there is no nothing.&#0160; Is this a good argument &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/24\/why-god-cannot-be-the-creator-of-the-universe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why God Cannot be the Creator of the Universe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-rand-ayn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}