RE: New Athiest Needs Help
May 30, 2014 at 11:33 am
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2014 at 11:33 am by CherishSin.)
I've never understood why, in this universe full of things, that people assume that the default state must be nothing.
Clearly the existence of things is possible - we can observe that, however what possible reason can we have to imagine that the absence of everything is even possible.
Just like infinity is a useful mathematical construct so is 0. It represents an absence of an amount of things but is never actually a number of things. Having 0 apples is not a quantity of apples.
Before we wrangle with the question 'how did the universe come from nothing' we must first ascertain that actual nothing is possible.
Clearly the existence of things is possible - we can observe that, however what possible reason can we have to imagine that the absence of everything is even possible.
Just like infinity is a useful mathematical construct so is 0. It represents an absence of an amount of things but is never actually a number of things. Having 0 apples is not a quantity of apples.
Before we wrangle with the question 'how did the universe come from nothing' we must first ascertain that actual nothing is possible.
