EXPLAIN THIS: Aliens, Multiverses or a Fine-Tuner?
Philosophers have called it the ultimate question – Why is there something rather than nothing? Which then leads to this question: If something exists, has it always existed or did it have a beginning?
Screenshot from Prager on YouTube.
And that question logically requires this one: If it always existed, it’s impossible to verify that it always will exist, but if it has an ending, then it isn’t eternal, which means it must have had a beginning. And if it had a beginning, how is that explained? Who or what began it?
Genesis says in its opening verse that “in the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.” Advocates of Intelligent Design argue design is obvious and it requires a designer in the same sense that a computer program requires a programmer. But neither of those options are acceptable if you’re determined to explain the existence of universe and everything in it, including especially you and me, through material processes.
So, as the Discovery Institute’s Dr. Stephen Meyer explains in the following video for Prager U, they come up with an endless succession of proposed explanations, ranging from aliens did it, to evolution, and even a Universe Machine that cranks out an infinite number of universes, one of which just happens to be ours:
Those explanations, a “succession of proposed explanations, ranging from aliens did it, to evolution, and even a Universe Machine that cranks out an infinite number of universes” still don’t answer the first question above, which is, Why is there something rather than nothing. They are an attempt to distance the ultimate question from the “proposed” solution.
A human limitation. The concept of ‘nothing’ is beyond our comprehension. We can only see ‘nothing’ referentially. In fact, conceptualizing ‘nothing’ turns ‘nothing’ into something. Zero is only referential to one and negative one, or any fraction or multiple of either to which one wants to refer.