No beginning, no end

 God is believed to have no beginning or no end.  How can something have no beginning or end?  

Richard Dawkins--famous author of "The Blind Watchmaker"--does not like the idea that "God was always there"--a belief he calls the "lazy way out." 

But he has to believe something has always existed or something came from nothing, as if nothing was something.  

Dawkins believes in a certain amount of luck-- "a very large amount of luck": his "cumulative selection" theory which can manufacturer complexity, "cannot work unless there is some minimal machinery of replication and replicator power, and the only machinery of replication that we know seems too complicated to have come into existence by means of anything less than many generations of cumulative selection!"

 So how does that work?  The one--machinery of replication-- needs the other--cumulative selection (and many generations of it), but cumulative selection needs the machinery of replication.  So, it seems, you can't have one without the other.

The odds of a DNA/ protein replicating machine coming into existence is the same as turning all matter in the universe into monkey flesh--and still it wouldn't be enough--and one of those monkeys typing on a typewriter "Methinks it is like a weasel."

 Dawkins says, "In order for a monkey to write ...[Methinks it is like a weasel] by chance, it needs a very large amount of luck, but it is still measurable.  We calculate the odds against it as about 10 thousand million million million million million million to 1 against." 

Something must have always existed. The idea of something having no beginning or end seems beyond comprehension, but it has to be.  

When God instructed Moses to take Israel out of Egypt, Moses asked what name he should give Israel when they ask, "what is his name?" God answered, "this you shall say to the children of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'" Exodus 3.10-15

God exists, and he is that cause of all creation, and he has set the boundaries of the existence of mankind.

"The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand to heaven and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be delay no longer, but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets. ". Revelation 10.5-7