(September 16, 2015 at 1:12 am)Darkstar Wrote:(September 15, 2015 at 10:22 pm)Lek Wrote: For me there's a problem with the existence of a universe with no purpose. I can't settle for "it's just there", especially when everything living creatures do is for some purpose. Shuffle must be interested in a reason for things too, because he's asking for reasons why God created diseases and such.
But wouldn't god be "just there"? Why replace one mystery with an even bigger one? In this case god would himself have no purpose. I say we stop the infinite regress before invoking the supernatural.
Organisms do things for a reason because they are trying to survive; the universe itself has no will and thus no agency. Thus, the universe never does anything for a reason other than "the laws of physics dictate that this will happen".
So the universe, or rather whatever makes up the universe, had no beginning. There was just always something there with no beginning. and no end, since matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
