(May 21, 2016 at 5:54 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Whatever existence is, I don't need to go into in order to argue that whatever it is it is indeed eternally existent.
Here is my argument:
Existence must always exist because that is the same as existence always being existent. Existence must always be existent for the same reason that atheists must always be atheistic, theists must always be theistic, agnostics must always be agnostic, elephants must always be elephant like, humans must always be human, squares must always be square, circles must always be circular, triangles must always be triangular, etc etc [fill in the blank]. This is the Law of Identity in logic. It is A=A and is never not A.
Because existence is existent at all times, that logically entails that existence, whatever it is, is eternal and never began and will never stop. This is different to the beginning of the universe or the big bang.
Or rather nothing may only be coherently grasped in the context of an absence of "something". Something may only ponder nothingness..."absolute nothingness" is an incoherent notion.