(February 4, 2012 at 5:45 am)brotherlylove Wrote: Again, it's a simple question. Since the Universe has a beginning, there are only three possibilities..
either something always was (eternal first cause)
the universe began out of literally nothing
or there is an infinite regress of causes
Okay, I'll play. Wait, if I choose door number one "something always was", doesn't that mean the universe never actually had a beginning? Like everything else, the universe changes over time. But beginning a new phase is hardly the same thing as an actual beginning. At no point did nothing become something. Rather at some point in the past, that which we recognize as something came from something not differentiated into the categories which currently describe the stuff of the universe.
There was always something but that something that always was is certainly not a beginningless magic genie. Get real.
