(May 13, 2016 at 10:18 am)Mister Agenda Wrote:Alasdair Ham Wrote:I think existence itself has always existed and always will... that's what I think.
That's even the theist position if they thought about it more. A universe is the set of all things that exist. If God exists and nothing else does, God is the universe. Even in theology there was never not a universe; and there was never 'philosophical nothingness'.
I would agree with that.
However I don't think that is the definition of "universe" used in the discussion, or when talking about the multiverse hypothesis.