| Alistair 2005-12-18, 6:55 pm |
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Judson McClendon wrote:
> "Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com> wrote:
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> Believing that nothing just expanded into everything seems far less
> reasonable to me than believing that God created everything.
Actually, not nothing. A primordial particle (essentially all matter in
the form of a plasma of leptons and hadrons with the form of a sphere
(probably really a slightly flattened spinning sphere)).
> This universe,
> as far as we know, is entirely causative.
If that is a theory then it may be false. There is no reason why effect
can not preceed cause.
> How or why would a causative
> universe form from nothing, i.e. no cause?
If the sponataneous forming of a non-sentient form is so abhorrent to
you, then why are you so ready to believe in the much less plausible
theory of a sentient being creating the universe?
> Why should we even imagine or
> suspect, let alone subscribe to, no causality? With God as First Cause, this
> is not an issue. Neither is beginning, for there was no "beginning", God
> just was.
But what preceded god? Who was his mother? This is where the Hindu gods
win out.
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