Matter could not have always existed since, based on the second law of thermodynamics, if it did all the stars would have all burned out by now. matter) as an effect.Įither God, as an intelligent Being, has always existed or matter has. Because a void, by its very definition, contains nothing and therefore has nothing as a cause, it cannot produce anything (e.g. The universal law of cause and effect states that what a thing does is based on what it is.