(October 30, 2014 at 2:51 pm)Mjrearden Wrote: Its mainly:
If nothing can come from nothing, how did this universe come into being?
Did "god" come from nothing?
If so, then why not a Universe? If you say "god" is different, you've committed the special pleading fallacy. Bzzzt!
Or, how about, the Universe, in some form, has always existed? Why is nothing the assumed default state? That would be leaping to a conclusion for which you or I have zero information.