I can't do the math, and never will be able to, but the question can be phrased without mathematics. If something exists, then either it always existed, or it came into existence. If it came into existence, where from? The harder question to even comprehend is, what if it always existed? How?
It's simple to explain why we have these questions as human beings. We see that things have beginnings and they have ends. A day begins with sunrise and ends with sunset. A plant begins with a seed and ends in decay. We see individual living things come into existence, and die. We even see, using sophisticated astronomy, solar systems and galaxies come into existence and die. So it's natural to extrapolate that the Universe is "like" a solar system or a galaxy, it "came into existence" and will "die." But for every existence we must post a non-existence. For every day we must posit night. For every star we must posit a gaseous cloud before the star, and a black hole after the star.
Perhaps it's a failure of our imaginations. I admit I am absolutely unable to comprehend existence without non-existence, and if we admit non-existence, then the question must be, what overcame non-existence?
It doesn't have to be God, but what was it? |
