(December 5, 2018 at 7:33 am)Jehanne Wrote:(December 5, 2018 at 7:26 am)Cherub786 Wrote: 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?
Well according to this speculation, there is no explanation for how a single particle brought about by a "quantum fluctuation" becomes an entire universe.
Also, this theory posits that the universe exists within a plane, a "vacuum". Is that not an example of deductive reasoning?
And is that empty space eternal or did it too have a beginning?
So these theories are pure speculation and they fail to account for existence.
Furthermore, they are based on the assumption that the law of conservation of energy is absolute truth and is a physical law that was always in operation even before the coming into existence of our universe. But all the evidence points to the fact that the energy that constitutes the universe came into existence