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It implies that some action must have happened to initiate the Big Bang, which implies that some thinking being must have taken that action. One could argue that it is possible that the Big Bang was initiated all by itself, but something would have had to have been in place for the Big Bang to be able initiate itself. Could matter or the self-initiated creation of matter come out of nothing from nowhere?
It implies that some action must have happened to initiate the Big Bang, which implies that some thinking being must have taken that action. One could argue that it is possible that the Big Bang was initiated all by itself, but something would have had to have been in place for the Big Bang to be able initiate itself. Could matter or the self-initiated creation of matter come out of nothing from nowhere?
Could matter or the self-initiated creation of matter come out of nothing from nowhere?
Why would the creation of matter have to have come out of nothing?
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... which implies that some thinking being must have taken that action.
How so?
The pre-big bang spacetime condition is not something one would want to play around with in a laboratory. I would be inclined to suggest that if the big bang was indeed initiated by a thinking being, that being would be history.
Please don't encourage this thread devolving into religion. Since it hasn't been locked or moved or deleted, I'll respond briefly.
The Winnie the Pooh reference is a lot more accurate than it might seem at first glance. The error in the OP is in attempting to extend causality, which is a product of the internal structure of the universe, and extend it outside the boundaries of that construct. A corollary would be a goldfish in a bowl positing the existence of a giant goldfish who created the bowl and water.
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