The texts of Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1-18 are prologues to their succeeding narrations. It is here that the opening of John echoes the opening of Genesis. Both texts succinctly state that God exists and that God is creator of all things that exist. An assessment of the truth of the propositions "God exists" and "God created all things that exist," is accomplished, where both propositions, being equally sound, are set in juxtaposition to various arguments against the existence of God. The infinite regress, the concept of self-causation, empiricism, and eternal matter are arguments of academia...