(December 27, 2012 at 2:44 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Also, Krauss's famous book is a huge strawman. His "nothing" is not the theist's "nothing."
That's hardly Lawrence Krauss's fault, though. If anything, the theist's "nothing" is the real strawman, since there can never be a sample of that "nothing" to examine, so any attempts to make any sort of conclusions about what sort of properties it can have falls squarely in the middle of that most famous of theistic disciplines called Making Shit Up.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
