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"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask.
Source: Hyperspace : A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimens ion, Page: 191
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Michio Kaku here reveals that while he may be incredibly knowledgable and insightful about Physics and Cosmology (though maybe not), he is not quite there yet in relation to logic and religion. The very simple answer to that childish “paradox” he presents is to note that God has always existed, and thus has no mother or father. The logic goes like this:
All, and only, created things have a beginning to their existence. God is not a created thing - He is uncreated. God therefore has always existed, since there is no beginning to His existence.
If Dr. Kaku had done even a merely junior-high level of research on that “paradox”, he would have realized that it has a simple and logical and rational resolution, one which has been regularly presented by many, many “elders of the church” and “the finest theologians”. The fact that he apparently hadn't realized this indicates he didn't do any research on the issue, but rather presented his own, essentially ignorant, opinion on the matter as though it was the final word. Not terribly impressive, I'm afraid.
It's interesting that Dr. Kaku here proves that one can be both a “heavyweight” and a “lightweight” at the same time. (This is not meant in a derogatory sense, by the way, but merely as an observation.)