(December 5, 2018 at 7:26 am)Cherub786 Wrote:(December 5, 2018 at 7:22 am)Jehanne Wrote: I think that you are taking Dawkins out of context. Read his The God Delusion sometime, which I just saw on the shelves of Barnes & Noble here recently!
As for the Universe being "not eternal", if you read Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick and Walker (voted by the APS as being the greatest undergraduate physics textbook of the 20th century), they say that speculating what came "before" the Big Bang is a meaningless question, that is, nothing came before the Big Bang. This is, of course, a very old observation.
That's what I've been saying all along. The universe had a beginning, and is therefore finite, and before it there was nothing, so the universe came from ex nihilo.
The question I'm posing is what caused it to come into existence and how.
As Professor Edward Tryon speculated long ago, maybe it was due to a quantum fluctuation:
Wikipedia: Edward Tryon -- Is the universe a vacuum fluctuation?