{"id":2988,"date":"2016-07-25T03:54:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T10:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=2988"},"modified":"2016-07-25T03:54:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T10:54:11","slug":"the-pretend-prime-mover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=2988","title":{"rendered":"The Pretend Prime Mover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Sue:<\/strong><br \/>\nSince God is pretend, how did the world come to be?<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t know, but there are lots of ideas floating around.  We&#8217;ve covered it quite a lot here, so try a search or just use <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?s=universe\">this one<\/a>.  Just because the idea of a God explains something doesn&#8217;t make it any more likely that there is one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Sue: Since God is pretend, how did the world come to be? Answer by SmartLX: We don&#8217;t know, but there are lots of ideas floating around. We&#8217;ve covered it quite a lot here, so try a search or just use this one. Just because the idea of a God explains something doesn&#8217;t make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=2988\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Pretend Prime Mover&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[561,6],"tags":[121,328,116],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-2","category-text","tag-cosmology","tag-origins","tag-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-Mc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2989,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions\/2989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}