Kimpatsu

Not from nothing; from the fluctuation of a quantum singularity.

Jinto

Does anyone know where I can find that picture of occam's razor (the one that goes "God created the universe. God just exists" --> "The universe just exists")?

Dan<Devil>

It's a lot easier to accept that a supernatural being of some sort created everything. The physics needed to understand the Universe is beyond the comprehension posibilities of many.
pudgyfarmer: Study, then come back...

Nowhere357

So it seems.
Reality 101

RevDahlia

yeah, i knew that much... just that mentioning quantum singularities to the average arguer from first cause frequently results in the ever-popular "you use too many big words for me, who do you think you are?" response. and i'm too much of an amateur to try explaining what exactly a quantum singularity is.

personally, i feel that the whole god thing is a load of dingo's kidneys. but this argument/thinly veiled rhetorical device can be effectively shut down without even attempting to conclusively prove the nonexistence of god. and i'm too lazy to ruin my manicure over it.

thanks anyway though, that was nice and succinct.

Kimpatsu

If I'm using "too many big words", my interlocuter should buy a dictionary. Reading more wouldn't hurt, either.

Torben

:notworthy :notworthy :notworthy

Duvenoy

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.


"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"


He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.


And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!


One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.


"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.


`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Lewis Caroll



doov

MJones

He's not the first coz. His dad come before him, and his grampa before that. In fact, I'd say he comes from a long line of coz's. And effects.

Think about that and eat the pudding pops...

Dirty Dog

Eudaimonist

You are probably an atheist troll, but I'll offer one more serious answer.

Nothing "makes" a photon "want" to move at the speed of light. It is in the nature of a photon to do so. That's what photons do. In a sense, there can be no deeper explanation than this.

By introducing the concept of God, you aren't really answering anything. What caused God to create the Universe? If you say that it was in God's nature (or supernature) to want to create a Universe, you are using my answer and unnecessarily shifting it one step back to some hypothetical being.