08 Mar '07 05:48>1 edit
Originally posted by KellyJayJust like trying to describe things as being eternal in nature. To grasp
...so to describe an event as the beginning of all things from nothing is nonsensical...
that you have to take a leap of faith and stop thinking or you'll go nuts.
Try to imagine the edges of our universe. Beyond it, more space. Find
the edge of that space. Beyond it, more space. Try to imagine... it just
doesn't work. Put a God there. Beyond God? Nothing? Surely not.
Now go the other direction. For every small particle you can detect,
imagine it being made up of even smaller particles. Those smaller
particles made by tiny little particles. Those tiny little... At some point
you must say: "Hmmm, this doesn't work". At some point, a particle
must contain, what? Nothing? No, that can't be. I mean, at the very least
it must contain space. Space with nothing in it? What is that? Is that
even space? Well, I suppose so by the virtue of being delimited by the
shell of our particle. The shell which is made of?.. Hmm, let's continue:
that tiniest little particle still made up of...
See my point? An eternal God as the creator, a self-caused eternal
universe or something from nothing. From a human perspective they're
all pretty wild mind games to consider, and each require an enormous
will to believe in. Why have I chosen to believe that nothing can be
thought of as precisely nothing, and that some primitive form of particle
existence can begin in that nothing? Because at some point, if I travel
through space in either direction, my mind tells me I must come across
the unthinkable nothing.