RE: Is it possible that the universe could be eternal??...
October 10, 2010 at 2:06 am
(This post was last modified: October 10, 2010 at 2:22 am by Anomalocaris.)
(October 9, 2010 at 9:56 pm)dave4shmups Wrote: Well, part of what I'm trying to do is refute the Christian argument that, no matter how far back you go, you have to have a God to start it all. Or, as on theologian put it, you're just postponing God starting the universe.
Bullshit. If god can be eternal, then the universe without god can also be eternal, and for considerably firmer reasons. So the eternity of god argument, rather than provide any sort of solution to the origin problem favorable to god, actually does away with any need for god at all. If god is not eternal, then the theologians are just postponing what started god, if a god started at all. So tell the idiot theologians that they shouldn't ask what is the prime mover, for raising the question exposed the prime mover to eventual human mastery. Where would theologians, beholden to god, be when the rest of humanity master any substance in the prime mover?
