(2023-01-16, 05:41 PM)nbtruthman Wrote: This Being, outside the Universe, must logically be itself uncreated and have no beginning, and comprises the irrational and incomprehensible but necessarily real answer to the question why is there something not nothing. Unless an endless regression is hypothesized, but this is also irrational, and involving infinities, and is also incomprehensible.
Not sure how this follows? The Being must be outside the Universe?
I get the point about endless regression though not sure about the rest of it. Not clear why this universe would even be the measure of reality, given it could be the creation of some kind of sub-entity given how flawed it is - hardly the work of some uncreated Super Engineer?
I will admit not I'm not even sure this question, "Why is there Something instead of Nothing?" i[s] a huge problem. There is Something now, given I'm typing this out, and there could have always been Something and always be Something.
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