by slimboyfat 78 Replies latest jw friends
Option 1 - roll your sleeves up and do some really hard work on trying to work towards an answer
Option 2 - magic up an all powerful god who did it but who apparently needs no explanation - ta dah!
It's magic either way. And apart from the origin of life there is the question why there is something rather than nothing to start with.
It's magic either way. And apart from the origin of life there is the question why there is something rather than nothing to start with.
Maybe there is everything, and we happen to be where life is possible.
When a naturalistic answer is found there will be no need of your magic.
Scientists are working on it - theists are busy criticising them and praying they never succeed.
i love mispelling 'accurately' :-)
When a naturalistic answer is found there will be no need of your magic.
Scientists are working on it - theists are busy criticising them and praying they never succeed.
A naturalistic explanation for why there is something rather than nothing seems paradoxical. But great, if scientists ever manage it then that will be pure dead magic.
pure dead magic
I think you, me and Besty all get that pun - well done!
I'd like to know if anyone had any agreement or disagreement with my view?
I think you may need to explain it a bit more first Ballisitc?
I think you may need to explain it a bit more first Ballisitc?
OK, lets start again...
There first of all is nothing. Either a god appeared who created a universe or a universe appeared all of it's own accord. According to science the singularity which created the universe was just a very small infinately dense spot of matter. It's probably easier to imagine this "spot" appearing out of nothing than an omnipotent complex god with a personality and emotions.
However, my view is that the blank canvas on which this story played out, was one of infinate possibility where all kinds of scenarios are played out. Things happen in terms of probability. It's likely that different spots of density did explode or contract, appear and disappear and chances are, sooner or later, one appeared with the basic particIe physics which supported life. In such an environment, it's highly more likely for the universe to appear from a singularity than for a god to appear, which as we imagine has inherant complexity and has not evolved, than for the universe to appear which was just a dense ball of matter. Our intelligence has come along later from evolution, and prior to this the formation of galaxies and solar systems.
Perhaps the mistake is to think about there being a "time" before the universe. There is no time before time begins.
I know it makes my head hurt too
