If everything has a cause, then God does, too, and there is no first cause. And if something doesn't have a cause, it might as well be the phsical world as a God or a tortoise.
If someone who asserts that God is the uncaused first cause (and then preens as if he's really explained something), we should thus inquire, "Why cannot the physical world itself be taken to be the uncaused first cause? After all, the neverable principle of Occam's razor advises us to 'shave off' unnecessary assumptions, and taking the world itself as the uncaused first cause has the great virtue of not introducing the unnecessary hypothesis of God
Religion quote by mathematician John Allen Paulos.
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