Is God Real? A Structural Argument Against the Creator-God: The First Law of Thermodynamics, the Kalam Cosmological Argument, and the Via Negativa Paradox

The question “Is God real?” is among the most searched queries on the internet, yet the philosophy of religion literature offers no structural argument for the impossibility of the creator-god, only debates between theistic apologetics and atheist responses from the absence of evidence. No prior publication presents structural evidence that the creator-god is ontologically impossible rather than merely unsupported. This paper argues that the Abrahamic creator-god is structurally incompatible with a two-element ontological framework: Existence consists of (1) Pure Awareness — an infinite impersonal state underlying all of Existence and permeating all Energy=Matter, making consciousness possible in beings, without itself being a being or creator — and (2) Energy=Matter — the eternal substance of all physical reality. No third category of existence is posited. The creator-god claim fails at every level: as an immaterial being, as a creator, as a located entity, and as one who interacts with physical reality. Four convergent structural arguments are advanced. First, the First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy cannot be created or destroyed; Energy=Matter is therefore eternal and uncreated, leaving the creator-god without a function. Second, the Kalam Cosmological Argument’s first premise is inapplicable because nothing began to exist. Third, the Eternity Argument demonstrates that god’s own claimed attribute of eternity entails that everything is eternal, hence nothing was created, hence a creator-god cannot exist. Fourth, the Via Negativa Paradox shows that the apologetic strategy of negative predication, when followed to its logical conclusion, eliminates the god-concept from every possible category of existence. Supporting discussion addresses why belief persists after the structural argument is accepted (Freud, Jung, Lacan) and briefly introduces an applied framework for post-deconstruction identity reconstruction. The paper concludes that the specific claim that a personal creator-god exists is not sustained. Keywords: creator-god; nonreligion; First Law of Thermodynamics; Kalam Cosmological Argument; Via Negativa; atheism; faith deconstruction; ontology; apologetics; Eternity Argument; Reductio ad Nihilo; Reductio ad Abstractio