Where did God get the substance to make the Earth? Why were there skeletons of Dinosaurs in it?
Infinity is only a mathematical concept, not a reality. There cannot be an actual infinite number of anything … grains of sand, cheeseburgers, or past days and events. Thus, the matter that makes up the earth, our galaxy, and the Universe itself cannot be eternal. It cannot have been around an actual infinite number of days or hours or eons. It must have a beginning. Contrary to what you’ve been told in another answer, God does not need a beginning, by definition. God, like a painter painting on canvas, created space and time in one moment in our past, and he is not bound by time or subject to it, any more than the painter is bound by what he paints. The problem the skeptic encounters when he claims that God requires a beginning is that by the same argument the Universe needs one, also. One is trying to have it both ways when they claim that God must have a source, but the causality chain that creates the Universe does not. That’s backwards; an eternal being does not need a source, b
