Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, December 26, 2011, 15:20 (4717 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: I don’t see any difference between the two questions, since they both imply that there OUGHT to be nothing, and I don’t see why the choice is between a multiverse and a UI. I agree that something has to be eternal, but the idea of an Eternal Intelligence intelligently doing nothing in a complete vacuum for ever (retrospectively) until eventually it came up with the idea of creating a material universe seems pretty laughable to me. Ugh, what a boring (retrospective) eternity! At least an eternal, material and ever changing universe doesn’t strike me as ridiculous...........Neither science nor religion can EVER come up with ANY theory connected with eternity that is not pure conjecture. So let’s have some more Christmas turkey...I may not know how it got here, but I do know where it's going.

You Europe folks never had turkey until we colonists discovered them in the wild and learned to grow them incaptivity. There is ALWAYS A FIRST CAUSE. You've missed that point in the discussion I've had with Matt.