Re:Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought
by foldr on Thursday May 18, 2017 @05:25PM
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If there's an ultimate explanation for the existence of the universe, the explanation has to stop somewhere. From a cosmological point of view, the properties of God are just the properties that any such terminus would have to have in order to be a terminus. Anything that comes from something else isn't God, so the question of where God comes from is moot.
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Re:Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought
by nitwit005 on Thursday May 18, 2017 @09:53PM
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> If there's an ultimate explanation for the existence of the universe, the explanation has to stop somewhere.
Not really. It could be that the universe has existed for an infinite amount of time, and the big bang was an event that occurs from time to time.
No matter what explanation you pick, something came from "nothingness" at some point, which suggests nothingness has some unusual properties.
Re:Way More Americans May Be Atheists Than We Thought
by foldr on Friday May 19, 2017 @05:59AM
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>Not really. It could be that the universe has existed for an infinite amount of time, and the big bang was an event that occurs from time to time.
That is a scenario where there is no ultimate explanation.