Why is there anything? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 31, 2012, 05:36 (4621 days ago) @ xeno6696

Matt: On the quantum level we've demonstrated that there is a "fabric" of reality and that it exists everywhere.-Really? What is outside the universe? Nothing. All that is expands into nothing. The fabric of reality is our reality, but no more.
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> Nonexistence, is literally "non-being" which is where the real dilemma begins. The short of it is: "Being" is the only possible state of the universe. -Right, when it comes into being. Who caused that? 
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> When you bring God into it--as David does--this complicates things. A panentheistic God literally IS the universe, because at a minimum, the universe is contained within it. But that means that for the universe to exist... God must exist, and these two things *cannot* be separate. -Right on. 
> In other words: If God created the universe (either panentheistically or as an act of "special creation" than by definition--the universe came from something. Something from nothing is impossible, even when you invoke a deity. -How do you justify that statement. A universal mind can will the universe into existence.
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> My deeper analysis?
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> I'm starting to believe in a static universe again. The big bang is *only* the beginning of the observable universe. For the purposes of humanity, it is Time = 0. 
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> But clearly... forces we are as yet unaware of have to be at play.-Good back stroke. Happy uou are back to prick all balloons.