Post by ArArArchStanton on Apr 12, 2017 15:34:23 GMT
So what are the two major questions when trying to contemplate the universe as a whole. 1. How could it just start from nothing? And 2. If it didn't start from nothing, then how could it have existed forever?
Now, the irony here is theists think the mere problems these questions present, mean that a god must be the answer.
HOWEVER,
Both of those questions still apply to god, they haven't solved anything, but merely provided an excuse to avoid answering, or even asking these same questions. Theists simply assert that it makes no sense that the universe could be eternal, but that somehow it makes perfect sense that some imagined god could be. And they simply assert that a universe couldn't start from nothing, even though they don't have one example of nothing or that nothing was ever a state. God just becomes the generic explanation, which doesn't actually explain anything, which is why saying god did it still doesn't explain how or why. It's a meaningless answer.
