(December 5, 2018 at 9:26 am)Bucky Ball 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.
Fundamental rookie error. There was no "before" space-time. The statement is meaningless.
It can't be helped due to limitation of language.
The point is the universe came from nothing. The universe was preceded by its non-existence
There I used the word preceded