(November 21, 2013 at 5:51 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: I am not aware of anyone who uses the premise, “nothing exists without a cause”- usually it is framed as, “everything material has a cause” or “everything that has a beginning had a cause”. Neither of which would apply to God.
Nor would they apply to the universe if that is understood as having proceeded from a form of nothingness which contained everything as one of its potential states .. which seems to be the correct description by the way.
