"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask. -Michio Kaku, physicist (b. 1947)
As brilliant as he is in physics, I think he has not really looked into the subject he is pontificating on here. Over the two thousand years of Christian theology, the nature of God, including this aspect, has been deeply pondered and the paradoxes confronted. But perhaps it is just that he can't get out of the materialist box.
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