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Being can come from non-being

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Being can come from non-being
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RE: Being can come from non-being
December 9, 2019 at 10:51 pm
(December 9, 2019 at 7:25 pm)SUNGULA Wrote: Sigh more people claiming some cannot come from nothing .A tiresome unproven claim 

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/468

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/14486

I think that it is pretty amazing the the universe, in whatever form, has always existed. Doesn't make me credit/blame a deity for it.
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RE: Being can come from non-being
December 13, 2019 at 6:06 pm (This post was last modified: December 13, 2019 at 6:07 pm by Otangelo.)
(December 9, 2019 at 7:25 pm)SUNGULA Wrote: Sigh more people claiming some cannot come from nothing .A tiresome unproven claim 

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/468

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/14486

Here, Krauss goes to the point to claim that ABSOLUTELY NOTHING could have created the universe.[/size]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghLSHorrcoQ[/size]

and you believe that nonsense ?
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RE: Being can come from non-being
December 13, 2019 at 6:08 pm (This post was last modified: December 13, 2019 at 6:09 pm by The Architect Of Fate.)
(December 13, 2019 at 6:06 pm)Otangelo Wrote:
(December 9, 2019 at 7:25 pm)SUNGULA Wrote: Sigh more people claiming some cannot come from nothing .A tiresome unproven claim 

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/468

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/14486

Here, Krauss goes to the point to claim that ABSOLUTELY NOTHING could have created the universe.[/size]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghLSHorrcoQ[/size]

and you believe that nonsense ?
What does that have to do with my links .In fact in my links Krauss is addressed
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RE: Being can come from non-being
January 3, 2020 at 1:23 pm
We don't have to believe any particular hypothesis for the origin of the universe sans convincing supporting evidence.
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RE: Being can come from non-being
January 3, 2020 at 2:26 pm
The question is strange anyway. It's very...very rare for anyone to hold the sort of position on the origins of the universe as we see it that are anything like an academic such as Krauss's. Why assume that anyone believe something that they're almost entirely unaware of?

The majority of atheists, just like the majority of everyone else, think that the universe came from something™. You'll hear more "we don't know" responses from atheists as to what that something is than you'll hear from god botherers. It's certainly a fact, ofc... that no atheist believes that the universe was created by a comic book character that a shepherd came up with to whittle away long hours in the desert.

Does that clear anything up for you Otangelo?
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RE: Being can come from non-being
January 15, 2020 at 10:40 pm (This post was last modified: January 15, 2020 at 10:46 pm by Jehanne.)
(November 21, 2019 at 7:04 pm)Alex K Wrote: Prove me wrong...
I don't think there's a coherent deductive argument that can be made to prove this assertion false. Of course, it is far from clear what exactly is meant by being or non-being, but I wager that for any ontologically interesting definition of these terms, there is no way to show the statement to be fallacious.

Alex, you're back!!  It's been a long time!!!  As for your OP, why not just posit the Quantum Eternity Theorem:

[Image: what-we-dont-know-about-the-beginning-of...1485275524]

The same proof, as far as I can tell, is in Griffiths, also.

P.S.  Here is Professor Carroll's slideshow:

Theoretical physicist Sean Carroll's slideshow
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