Everything must have a start?right?
2007-05-08 01:04:37 · 23 answers · asked by b n r 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not necessarily. If you suppose that, then you have to say that God had a start. So who created God? If you say that God is eternal, then the obvious response is, "If God can be eternal, why not the universe?"
The fact that something exists does not presuppose that it was created. Just to repeat my point: if you think that, and think that God exists, then you have to suppose that God has his own creator, and so on.
This basically comes down to the question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" This is literally unanswerable. There really, absolutely can be no answer to this question. Any mechanism proposed would be part of the something. This isn't even a question to which we don't know the answer, or to which you might claim God knows the answer. There's nothing to know. There is no answer. There is no reason, no explanation, and no meaning to the fact of existence.
I find that thinking about this feels a little bit like looking over the edge of the universe. People who like meditating (not me, especially) sometimes think about this as a means of clearing their mind.
2007-05-08 01:38:40 · answer #1 · answered by garik 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one.
All you do is delay the question. If everything must have a start or a creator, then that applies to a god too.
The Universe was always here in some form. Google "M Theory" if you want to know what I think. It includes a cause for the Big Bang and what was around before.
2007-05-08 08:12:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Everything must have a beginning? Who created the universe? Who created the being that created the universe? Who created the being that created the being that created the universe? Are you seeing holes in your plot yet?
2007-05-08 08:18:22 · answer #3 · answered by Diet_smartie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
of course everything must have a start!That's why the most high Glipnok created god,after glipnok was formed by the Even more holy tryxniper by vomiting the remains of HIS father the supreme slopobred,who didn't need to come from anything. Yep,EVERYTHING needs a start. GREAT QUESTION!!!!!!!!!
2007-05-08 08:12:38 · answer #4 · answered by nobodinoze 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Obviously if you believe in in an eternal god you don't believe everything must have a start. Personally I believe that the universe is based on eternal necessary mathematics not some vengeful character based on ancient myths.
2007-05-08 09:00:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Universe began when it began. How can you ask what started it (implying time before it) if time didn't exist? The current hypothesis that Stephen Hawkings has is that the Universe spontaneously came from nothing.
2007-05-08 08:10:30 · answer #6 · answered by Alucard 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Does a circle have a starting point? No so your assertion is wrong. Why do people have a problem grasping that the universe could have always existed.
2007-05-08 08:23:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Rules cannot exist without matter in reality.
In reality matter cannot exist without rules.
Only rules "in theory" can exist without matter.
The only example of something being ethereal and real at the same time is a dream.
See: http://ucadia.org/uca/u04/040100.htm on existence.
I thoroughly recommend it to all christians and atheists because I feel the concept of existence is a misunderstood and overly assumed "given" in the debate.
Cheers
2007-05-08 08:11:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one.
Everything must have a start right?... like god? isn't he a part of everything?
2007-05-08 09:01:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why do you assert that there is a "who" involved at all? What happens if the universe started as a natural process?
Yours is a question filled with religious presumption.
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2007-05-08 08:11:04 · answer #10 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋