If the universe is made of eternal matter, and it may well be, that still does not deal with the problem of how it all came to be set into motion. I am quite comfortable with a panetheistic explanation of the universe, i.e., that the matter of the universe is the eternal "body" of the creator being. That would make you and I and the ants and the swirling cosmic gas all akin, all intimately and eternally connected. Yet the question remains, "What set this all atwirl?"
Every action is a reaction to a preceding action. So it is in the macrocosm. So it is in the microcosm. To think that there must have been an initial action/movement that set, eventually, everything else in the universe into motion is both logical and rational. This type of thinking is the classic type of rational and logical thinking that the great pioneers of western philosophy are best known for.
Every action is a reaction to a preceding action. So it is in the macrocosm. So it is in the microcosm. To think that there must have been an initial action/movement that set, eventually, everything else in the universe into motion is both logical and rational. This type of thinking is the classic type of rational and logical thinking that the great pioneers of western philosophy are best known for.
