(April 18, 2012 at 5:30 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Not all theism claims that the world was created out of nothing. Both Pantheism and Panentheism take existence as a given, i.e. "out of nothing, nothing comes."
Christians used to believe the world was eternal and had no "beginning" for that very reason. I'm guessing once the incoherence of the idea of existence "before time" becomes popularly understood they will go back to that idea.
"Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate by the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony!"
- Dennis the peasant.
- Dennis the peasant.
