Originally posted by SwissGambit
The real world could be different from the simulation. Everything we think we know about the big bang and beginning of the universe could be just part of the simulation. Who then knows if the simulation has a creator? Maybe the simulation is just eternal.
And perhaps we are not real at all? Really now, I can only discuss what we "know" to be reality. Otherwise, nothing I say means anything. You are free to believe that you do not exist or that reality does not exist. I have found many that actually fit this criterea and needless to say they are miserable human beings.
As far as matter being eternal, I do not understand this concept. After all, everything had a beginning in the material universe and time is simply a property of the material universe. Once matter came on the scene so did the demensions through which matter can exist which are hieght, length, width, time etc. Time must have had a beginning because by times very definition of measuring point A to point B, time must have had a beginning. If there is no point A then what is time measuring? Come to think of it, there would be no point B as well. I think the absract concept of eternity via the material universe was simply conjured up to make the peices of the puzzle fit, so to speak. There is no scientific evidence to say that matter is eternal. In fact, we can look as far back as the Big Bang and NO further.
So where did God come from? Well, if he is a spirit, he is not from the material universe. This would mean that time may not be a property of such a medium. If this is so, then God could then have created the medium of time, length, width, etc in order for the material universe to exist.