Is the origin of the universe the ultimate paradox?

Question

Paradoxes cause impossibilities to occur, that's why there is generally no such thing as a paradox.

A paradox is a valid statement which is self?contradictory or appears to be wrong. Paradoxes are important to the development of logic systems. Example: The barber shaves all the men in this village who do not shave themselves'seems a reasonably elear statement. However given that the barber is a man and lives in that village, who shaves the barber?


So the universe began with nothing, yet you cannot have nothing without something as it's opposite. Therefore, a paradox was created. The universe was created, time was created (because
An apparent break in temporal causality where cause of an event follows or appears to follow the event itself) This explosion for lack of a better term of "somethings"(the universe) had to happen which took an infinitesimally small amount of time but it had to take time, therefore time was created to allow it to happen.

Tom, when matter was created as "something" antimatter was as well or else it would not exist.

This is a theory that does not involve god. It involves a theoretical beginning where as one responder said, Space and time simply do not exist. There was nothing, but nothing can't exist without something....

You can't assign a consciousness to live outside the limits of space and infinity... I claim that God is simply nothing... the absence of anything. So this nothing didn't technically create everything, but in a way everything is the antithesis of itself.

Only pess' first answer counts, he isn't a woman if you read the question "given that the barber is a man". However some people have an impossibly hard time reading well.

Answer 1

Maybe the matter inherent in the universe has always existed and did not need a creator. If one allows for a creator God as the cause for existence, a similar paradox occurs (God created everything, who created God?). The current lack of understanding of the universe does not mean there are no logical answers to such questions. To attribute anything we don't currently understand to "God" is similar to what earlier men did when they didn't understand phenomena such as lighting and volcanoes.

Answer 2

"The universe began with nothing" is an oximoron. Before there was a universe, there was nothing to be called 'a universe'. So, the universe never began with nothing! When there was nothing, there was also no universe. The universe began when there was something to begin it.

But there was always God. And, "In the begining, God created the" universe. "...the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible." (Gen 1:1, Hebrews 3:11)

Personally, I don't believe that God created time. I believe that time is an attribute of God's existance. In other words, time exists because God exists.

For, as you pointed out, things can't happen outside of time; and therefore the universe could never have gotten started without time. Time could not begin WITH the universe, because 'to begin' is a temporal expression; time had to exist 'before' the universe began.

I believe it to be an attribute of God becase God also does things, and there is no 'doing' without time.

PS -- The phrase, "you cannot have nothing without something" is a limitation of human expression, not a reflection of existance/non-existance.

PPS -- I like pessimoptimist's logical answer to you barber paradox.

Answer 3

its the atheist who are saying that universe began with Nothing ? we muslims says that God created universe from Nothing. There is a world of difference between these two statements.

Quran reasons with man.

Quran 52:35-36 "Were they created of nothing, or were they themselves the creators? Or did they create the heavens and the earth? Nay, they have no firm belief."

i dont think the origin of universe is paradox. you will have great troubles if you exclude the creator. in that case, you will get away from reasonable track.

Answer 4

That, I think, is the ultimate reason why I put up with a religion. Fark all this stuff about evolution and the afterlife... You have the main question and the main validation for religion. There is simply no other explaination or theory as to how the stuff of the big bang came to be.

Answer 5

1) The origin of God is the ultimate paradox. 2) Your barber either doesn't shave at all, or is a woman.

Answer 6

everything needs a "cause" inorder to exist or begin correct? I believe that the cause of the universe to begin was God..so then you might ask,who created God or what was his cause? Well, since God created the universe (space,time, relativity) then there was no need for God to be created because since he exists outside of time...he is infinite in time and space>

Answer 7

As personaly i am not looking at the time as object.
Time is a description. When we say before time, eternity, forever, infinity.. its the same concept. Time. That's just how we measure the distance betwen point x and y. So if god was before time than his distance is between before time and time.. and so on...
Therefore GOD exist and promissed me a candy land for infinity.
Hopefully he won't change his mind tough.

Answer 8

Double talk, if you ask me. God is the First Cause who willed all things into being.

He is timeless because He is the author of time.

This is the explanation that best appeals to me.

H

Answer 9

So I guess a miracle is sort of like a paradox.

Answer 10

I think we just need to alter our perceptions of time and space to understand it. Time and space is really an illusion. We just don't have the ability to understand the true essence of it.