Posted: Apr 10, 2011 8:25 pm
Teuton wrote:Oldskeptic wrote:
No one is saying that the universe as a whole began to exist except Craig and those like him. And the idea that the universe is eternal is less of a problem that it coming into being out of absolutely no thing.
I'm inclined to believe that Mother Nature, i.e. the matter-energy-space-time world(s), is eternal and uncreated. But I'm aware that this is an article of materialist faith lacking any scientific confirmation.
I didn't claim that it was confirmed. I said that an eternal universe is less of a problem than it coming into being out of absolutely no thing. We have no ways to explain either scenario, but we have one law and one equation that seem to indicate that the universe is eternal; the 1st law of thermodynamics and E=MC^2.