(October 22, 2014 at 10:52 pm)datc Wrote: Hi, atheist folks. I wonder if you can find flaws in the following argument. If it holds, it'll be part of a book.
I ask: Why is there something rather than nothing?
I stopped reading here. The question is pointless. It can only be asked from the point of view of something that is already here. So you might just as well conclude there is something rather than nothing because the question has been asked. Of course there would go on being something rather than nothing even if the question had never come up. Language is a tool that can create more work than it accomplishes. Don't over estimate its power. Regarding what cannot be said simply, most likely nothing of consequence can be said at all.