(May 23, 2011 at 8:38 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Because it is impossible to have an infinite series of finite causes. So the first cause must be separate from the Universe and also eternal.Just 'because' is not an answer Statler.
When reading up on causality within physics you appreciate how complex nature and reality is, causes are happening as we speak and carry indefinitely, the universe is expanding all the time, we are going to have ongoing cause and effect probably occurring endlessly.
Making claims for or against infinity is also senseless; you can't identify, realise, falsify, test for, verify, or even get to infinity, it's not a real number or quantitative property.
And since you've moved the goalposts, if God as uncreated creator is separate from the universe then what is outside the universe? Or rather what does the universe exist in?
