Why is there anything? (Introduction)
dhw: I assume that the original question relates to cause, since purpose already presupposes a creator. > > I do not have a theory. Your alternatives are equally meaningless to me. I find it impossible to believe that ANYTHING can come from a total void, so in your first option, God (Universal Intelligence) could not "appear" from a void. In your second, if there was a god, it could not be "in" a void, because the void would then not be a void unless, as I said before, God IS nothing (which I find just as meaningless). I will grant you that there has to be a first cause, but no-one can possibly know what it is. -By definition a first cause has to have the power to cause. It must be an eternal 'something'. Eternal, or otherwise it would not be a first cause. Naturally it can exist in a void, surrounded by that void, but separate from it.-Since you agree there has to a first choice, why not pick something?
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2011-12-18, 15:37
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2011-12-24, 15:22
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2011-12-24, 21:01
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2011-12-26, 08:27
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2011-12-26, 18:19
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2012-03-29, 14:26
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2012-03-30, 22:35
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2012-03-31, 05:36
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2012-03-31, 15:56
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2012-04-01, 00:27
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2012-04-01, 23:01
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2012-04-02, 01:11
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2012-04-02, 16:42
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2012-04-03, 05:15
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2012-04-03, 02:46
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2012-04-03, 05:17
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2012-04-03, 11:26
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David Turell,
2012-04-03, 14:15
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2012-04-03, 14:15
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2012-04-03, 13:10
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2012-04-03, 13:56
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2012-04-03, 14:34
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2012-04-03, 21:46
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2012-04-04, 13:24
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2012-04-04, 15:24
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dhw,
2012-04-04, 17:45
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2012-04-05, 14:59
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2012-04-05, 15:19
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2012-03-31, 05:36
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2012-03-29, 14:26
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David Turell,
2012-03-28, 14:41
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David Turell,
2011-12-26, 15:20
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