: A very erudite answer, Gideon, but again, I ask you where IT call came from (matter, antimatter, flower faeries, compassionate conservatives).
: I repeat, it all had to come from somewhere, and until (or if) we figure out where, I'll just call that mystery "God."Why did it have to come from somewhere?
Something only has to come from something if you accept causality; cause and effect.
Causality is a logical construct straight out of Ancient Greece. You cannot apply a logical concept like causality to something alogical like a Prime Mover; this is the mistake that St. Thomas Aquinas made.
It's like trying to make pi out of whole numbers; you cannot, as pi is an irrational number and goes on forever.
You're entirely welcome to believe in a Prime Mover, but you cannot justify your belief using logical constructs like causality or proof. It is ultimately an unsubstantiated belief; no more, no less. You either believe or you don't; and there is no proof that can support either side of the argument; it is a matter of faith.
This means that all religions have equal truth-values; they are all matters of belief rather than actual evidence.
You're still trying to apply logic to the alogical.
Gideon.
