Basically, there can only be 2 different sides to the debate:
- Something came from Nothing.
- Nothing came from Nothing.
2 implies that because nothing can come from nothing...something was always there!
This debate is, in many ways, larger than religion because many religions say that God made everything. Now, this question takes it a bit farther, where did God come from? Was he/she/it always there or did it/she/he also have an origin?
Here are my thoughts on it:
If we agree that option 2 is the answer, then something was always there. This implies that there has been infinite time that has passed until this point. Now...there itself is a paradox. What exactly is infinite time? If the past has infinite time...then we are living in the past. If there really is a past, present, and future, then the infinite time that has already passed already contains all of those...therefore we are living something that has already passed. Our whole perception of time is gone down the drain here...
Happy philosophizing!
Edited by slimemonkey, 29 April 2007 - 05:58 PM.