(February 28, 2013 at 8:00 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(February 28, 2013 at 7:33 pm)Baalzebutt Wrote: Don't you think this is a little bit of an ironic explaination relative to your sig block?Not at all. God is the something on which all other things that come into being are contingent. The sig block is just a silly way of expressing the philosophical truth that "Out of nothing, nothing comes."
(February 28, 2013 at 7:33 pm)Baalzebutt Wrote: If god can be eternal, why can't the universe be eternal?Because it's not. It had a beginning called the 'Big Bang'.
NO.
The Universe as we know it had a big bang to start it off. What if there was a Universe before the Big Bang, or a Somthingelseverse?
We just do not know, and probably can't know, what if anything was before the big bang.
There is no evidence to suggest there was a universe or something else before the big bang, just like there is no evidence to suggest a god that was always there created the universe.
Both are nothing more than guesses and as credible as the other...so YEAH the universe can be eternal just as easily as your damn god.
In fact, I'd say an eternal universe is more credible than an eternal god, because whilst we have evidence for neither a god or an eternal universe, at least we have evidence that there can be a universe, because we are in it!
You are currently experiencing a lucky and very brief window of awareness, sandwiched in between two periods of timeless and utter nothingness. So why not make the most of it, and stop wasting your life away trying to convince other people that there is something else? The reality is obvious.
