Why Something Rather Than Nothing?

[Cyberman]

Get your bald assertions here! A dollar each or three for $2.50!

I prefer my assertions with hair. Or at least a landing strip.

[FatAndFaithless]

Sawdust and plank Datc, sawdust and plank.

[Surgenator]

The problem with this argument is it assumes that only one configuration exist. Perhaps all configurations exist and since we are in this one, we observe this one. No choice was made, it was simply an evitable consequence of all configurations existing. Since I could use this same argument to "prove" a multiverse its not really a proof of God.

All configurations cannot exist, because only an infinite number of ideal things can exist (in the mind); not an infinite number of real things (out there).

And you have came to this conclusion how?

[datc]

That flawed reasoning is not affected by the number of possibilities. A possibility must be choosen. Whatever the chosen possibility is, it will always have a lower probability than anything else being chosen (unless the possible choices is limited to 2 or less).

Since you haven't responed. I'm going to assume your "argument from particularity" is wrong.

As you can see, I am responding to practically everyone; so, if I have not responded to your point, then either I am still thinking about it, or your point is nonsense.

In this particular case, it's the latter.

[bennyboy]

Far more sensible is to argue that there was an intelligence creating U for a purpose, such as (for example) the best possible world, presumably a singular thing.

Hmmm let's talk about that. Assuming that God is good, as you insist must obviously be the case, and that God has designed the universe to be an expression of this essential goodness, then that must mean that out of all conceivable universes, THIS one is maximally good. This is the best that your God has been able to conceive:





At what point does reality infringe on your convoluted apologist acrobatics? I, for one, can't conceive of a universe in which any sensible, sentient being would look at Earth as it is, and think that the universe in which it exists is maximally good.

[Surgenator]

Since you haven't responed. I'm going to assume your "argument from particularity" is wrong.

As you can see, I am responding to practically everyone; so, if I have not responded to your point, then either I am still thinking about it, or your point is nonsense.

In this particular case, it's the latter.

If it's nonsense, then please tell me how a choice from one million possibilities vs an infinite number of possibilities affects the how the choice was picked.

[The Valkyrie]

The answer to this and all difficult questions is Cyrus, the Eternal Teddy Bear (Plush Be Upon HIM).

[TreeSapNest]

I like the semantic argument againt something from nothing much better: It is not logical that nothing can create something. :-) Much shorter period of time wasted reading it.

[Heywood]

All configurations cannot exist, because only an infinite number of ideal things can exist (in the mind); not an infinite number of real things (out there).

Why can't an infinite number of real things exist?

[FatAndFaithless]

Good god, I gave heywood a kudos. Is this the apocalypse?