[Edit: studying to be a doctor, I realise that sickness is generally caused by invading pathogens, but that doesn't really answer the question, which is really, where does it all begin?]
Newton's third law states that every action has a reaction, and an equal and opposite one at that. If God created that law, then he must have known that once he had started the world, it would never really end. I mean, think about it, if in the end, the Solar System expands further and further until the Earth is so far away from the Sun it goes all cold and dead, that would lead to a reaction. I can't say what it is. But the reaction would then become an action and lead to another reaction. Excuse me if I've taken the law into the wrong context, but it seem to me that there would be an unbroken chain of action-reaction things occuring, and it would be impossible to break the chain.
To illustrate this point I'll go back to the spark which got the fire going. To get the spark, there had to be someone who lit the match or something. The person did it as a reaction to coldness. This is caused by a change in the weather. And so on and so forth. To continue the fire incident onward, the person would probably roast marshmellows over the fire to make good use of the heat, and because the person was hungry, and then eat the marshmellows, and from there you can either follow the path of digestion, or say that the person felt sleepy after eating, so he went to sleep, and of course he had to wake up. And so on and so forth...
So as far as I can see, all God had to do was set off the right reaction (which probably wasn't easy), and he would start the mechanisms to get the clock moving. I think one of the first things he must have done was to invent the action-reaction law. From there, everything under the sun and otherwise, would start itself.
Newton's third law states that every action has a reaction, and an equal and opposite one at that. If God created that law, then he must have known that once he had started the world, it would never really end. I mean, think about it, if in the end, the Solar System expands further and further until the Earth is so far away from the Sun it goes all cold and dead, that would lead to a reaction. I can't say what it is. But the reaction would then become an action and lead to another reaction. Excuse me if I've taken the law into the wrong context, but it seem to me that there would be an unbroken chain of action-reaction things occuring, and it would be impossible to break the chain.
To illustrate this point I'll go back to the spark which got the fire going. To get the spark, there had to be someone who lit the match or something. The person did it as a reaction to coldness. This is caused by a change in the weather. And so on and so forth. To continue the fire incident onward, the person would probably roast marshmellows over the fire to make good use of the heat, and because the person was hungry, and then eat the marshmellows, and from there you can either follow the path of digestion, or say that the person felt sleepy after eating, so he went to sleep, and of course he had to wake up. And so on and so forth...
So as far as I can see, all God had to do was set off the right reaction (which probably wasn't easy), and he would start the mechanisms to get the clock moving. I think one of the first things he must have done was to invent the action-reaction law. From there, everything under the sun and otherwise, would start itself.
Addendum: If God created the world, who created God? Logically (or perhaps illogically) speaking, God should be an action as well as a reaction to something that happened before him. If there was no spark to get the fire going, then...this wouldn't even exist. The concept of existence wouldn't even exist.
[Edit: There are two possible conclusions to make: 1) So there is no God, although this does not answer the question of how the chain-reaction of life started. We are left to question. 2) That God, if He exists, exists beyond the laws of this universe, and to the extent that He has properties that are beyond this universe, cannot be understood. In a way, this seems logical, but requires a bit of a feat of mental agility to grasp; up to the limits of logic, it is possible to glimpse God, but there is only so far that logic can take us, beyond which we can only depend on God for divine revelation of himself to us.]
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