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Again, to attribute creation to Deity is not consistent with goodness, because with a perfectly good creator there would be no evil or impurity in his creation ; no worldly ruler desires bad actions to be committed in his country, but worldly rulers are not omniscient and omnipotent, and they cannot therefore prevent such action from being committed in their kingdoms; but Deity is to be considered as perfectly powerful and benevolent as well as omniscient, and therefore no evil deeds could be committed were Deity the creator of the world, for he would not give his creatures the power of committing such deeds.
The same is the case in relation to sorrow, pain, disease, and poverty. If it be said that pain and disease are the result of the evil deeds of those who suffer these things. then if Deity is regarded as the creator who gave people the power of doing evil deeds and afterwards punished them for exerting that power, such a Deity would lack the quality of goodness, for what would one think of even an earthly father who seeing his son about to commit some evil deed and being able to prevent him, took no action in the matter, but punished the son afterwards for his sin ?
The next thing to be considered is the belief that God is the only eternal existence and that he created the world out of nothing or else out of himself.
With regard to the theory that God created the world out of nothing, is there any proof or argument that can be found to support this belief? Apparently not; for nature does not show us that this world came into existence out of nothing ; nature does not show us any single instance where something has come into existence out of nothing: everything that we see has had a previous state, and we never see anything that goes into absolutely nothing. Physical science has proved that something does not come out:
