Today is my thanksgiving . Family came into town last night and I baked 9 pies for our feast . Today we will celebrate all we have to be thankful for . I pledge not to drink today . <| sep |> I get what you ' re saying . And I suppose it could . What do I know ? But that would make matter eternal . And it seems pretty clear that matter is not eternal . However one of the things required for God to be GOD , in addition to omnipotence and all that , is that God is eternal . He does not require a cause . Is that a copout ? Maybe . But it ' s been an aspect of the concept of God for a long time . God supposedly exists outside of time . Kinda like a hopefully clothed Dr . Manhattan . And maybe less angsty ? There is a bit of flawed logic in this , I admit . A bit of Who put this here ? Well I can ' t conceive of how it got here , so it ' s God . But it really would take something that is eternal to exist prior to the uncaused cause . And that thing could be anything . Could be nothing more than a eternal Platypus with seven tusks that shits gold into a bucket . What do I know ? But it would be eternal , and that ' s something .