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is not the creator of the world, how bas this world sprung up of itself. It is evident nothing is made without a maker just as a clock &c.
A.-0, enquirer. You do not seem to fully
understand my argument and it is therefore you call God the creator of the world. We also hold that the finished articles that we see were made by some one, for example pot, cloth, clock, house, stall, chain &c., but such things as Sky, Time, Atoms, Soul &c. have not been made by any one. All learned man agree in the view that all things which have the forms of effects, must have material causes. Without a material cause no such effect can be produced. Only a fool can say against this view. But soul, time, atoms, and sky have no material causes and are therefore beginningless and none has made them. The statement that all things have been made by God is therefore untenable.
As regards the earth, water, fire, ave plants, moving creatures, and such pore
