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<blockquote data-quote="spanner365" data-source="post: 16210588" data-attributes="member: 108314"><p>(Bolded mine)</p><p> </p><p>But this couldn't have happened. Without time there could be no before or after. Thus it is meaningless to say we started with nothing and then later there was something. There is no "before" the universe. The universe just is. This is what Stephen Hawking meant when he said that asking what was before the big bang is like asking what is north of the north pole. (I think that is what he said anyway).</p><p>To the question of "why is there something rather than nothing" I ask you "Why not?" What reasoning can you give me that proves that "nothing is more likely than something"? We both probably have the gut feeling that nothing is more likely but this is not enough. </p><p>This feeling and the fact that we are ignorant leads us to posit a deity to explain away the fact that there is something. We think by giving him supernatural powers we have explained something. But we haven't. It is no more likely that a supernatural being just is than it is that the universe just is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="spanner365, post: 16210588, member: 108314"] (Bolded mine) But this couldn't have happened. Without time there could be no before or after. Thus it is meaningless to say we started with nothing and then later there was something. There is no "before" the universe. The universe just is. This is what Stephen Hawking meant when he said that asking what was before the big bang is like asking what is north of the north pole. (I think that is what he said anyway). To the question of "why is there something rather than nothing" I ask you "Why not?" What reasoning can you give me that proves that "nothing is more likely than something"? We both probably have the gut feeling that nothing is more likely but this is not enough. This feeling and the fact that we are ignorant leads us to posit a deity to explain away the fact that there is something. We think by giving him supernatural powers we have explained something. But we haven't. It is no more likely that a supernatural being just is than it is that the universe just is. [/QUOTE]
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