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The Rev. John Charlton Polkinghorne was an English theoretical physicist, theologian, writer, and Anglican priest. He was professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Cambridge for 11 years, after which he resigned his chair to study for the priesthood, becoming an ordained Anglican priest. He served as the president of Queens’ College, Cambridge for eight years
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“God has being in himself” & there you have the epitome of nonsense.
The worlds easiest question to answer: "Why is There Something Rather than Nothing?" Because there is.
The question requires a mind to ask, if you go back before the universe, there's no mind to ask as neither life nor its invention "gods" exist to ask it so the question simply does not exist leaving the answer as above: Because there is i.e. there is nothing to ask it's a quantum event with no possible reason behind it.
This is just another reason philosophy is dead in the modern world, it asks irrelevant questions seeking irrelevant answers from people who like to "make stuff up".
And why is the question asked? Because groups like theists have egos so massive their self importance makes them think they are vastly more relevant in the universe than they are when, the observable truth is, life on earth is irrelevant to the universe: It came and will go without leaving a trace.
There is either going to be nothing or something. There are no other options. Base reality is a binary condition. There is stuff. It’s just the way it is. There is no reason for it.
So gosh is a he😂
Logically, there cannot be an answer to the question "why is there something rather than nothing?". If that such answer exists, then you should ask "why is there such answer rather than nothing? … Infinite Regress
4:15 this is a very silly argument. "the laws of physics seem to have character" pointing to god assumes the laws of physics could have been otherwise. He makes no argument, compelling or otherwise, to suggest that's the case. He's riding on the brute fact of naturalism to arrive at god.
As soon as he mentions god, i know this guy has nothing of value to contribute to answering this question. Literally stopped the video at that point.
It is not possible for there to be nothing because there would be no one around to perceive the nothingness. The concept of nothingness would not exist. Therefore, there can be only something. And we, being something, can ask questions and postulate about nothingness as an thought experiment.
It’s kind of sad that John Polkinghorne is just re-iterating that which would be the childhood and adolescent church-based reasoning of his time. It’s also a pity that he can’t find reasoning that recognises contemporary cosmology. Cosmology is an evidence-based science, with reasonable speculations based on that evidence. Cosmology has moved on a lot from when it seems he formed his beliefs. As such, his interview is disappointing, and proves nothing. A sort of ‘grave-yard’ of the beliefs of an English village church. Delightful – but wrong.
The assumption that there is an omnipotent, omniscient God is cancelled by asking why there is no manifestation of such being intervening the problems in humanity? There is none thus assuming of having such God is problematic.
Then why there is something rather than nothing?
It has been a majority of philosophers, since presocratic time, they believe in panpsychism though I don't believe in a soul.
Also Plato postulated what he called “perfect forms”, which lead me to conclude that, together with this lifeforce it has in it the forms (multitude of species), so that when they manifest in matter, then it gets life and they have their own forms or species.
Consciousness is a property of those things which have life. Once they have life they have senses or Consciousness.
This the real question worth answering, not is there a god , that is not an answer to anything but how does it exist
Because God created it.
The question is when am I gonna be a billionaire?
We are used to cause-effect relationship in our day-to-day experiences. That can't apply to the whole existence. The above question is just wrong and silly unless we know the cause-effect relationship at such high level. It is waste of time given our limited brain.
There is a third stream of western thought, idealism, which takes consciousness as its brute fact.
Show me "nothing" as an example. You can only show me a concept of nothing in your mind (like the number zero) – it does not exist is reality. For concepts to exist in reality, it has to have a real-correlate. Just stating "nothing" is even possible or that it exists needs its correlate in reality.
God did it ? It lacks any poof . Therefore, it lacks common sense in a scientific manner . If you choose to comfort yourself about death with a faith that is a choice but lacks logical responsibility
Oh boy oh boy oh boy! There is something that is beyond the realm of science, or human understanding itself. Let’s speak authoritatively about a specific iron age God, as if we have any evidence at all that such a being exists.
@willeime Hallo Willeime croyez vous que j'existe, je suis ID 😎 Philippe ou Dieu, Creator? Moi je le sais, mais vous, Je ne parle pas de religion. premièrement je n'ai jamais voulu devenir ce Dieu de vengeance de punition, j'étais venu la dernière fois pour apporter la bonne nouvelle comme vous le savez je n'ai pas pu vraiment vous l'apporter cette bonne nouvelle disons que les choses se sont très mal passer. Maintenant je me dois de faire découvrir votre environnement et vos origines par la sciences, la métaphysique et la spirituality. Les derniers 20 années j'ai commencé vous le savez avec la quantique, physique et mécanique et développer des technologies laser pulsé, ordinateur quantique, fusion nucléaire ecetera j'attendais que James webb vous face découvrir beaucoup plus. Maintenant je vais pouvoir vous apporter un tout nouveau savoir avec des technologies et sciences totalement nouvelle ainsi qu'une spirituality plus complet, n'oublions pas la métaphysique. Je vous donnerai l'occasion de compléter la fusion, ordinateur quantique et c'est chose comme les satellites que nous devons modifier pour vous donner l'opportunité de pouvoir voyager dans l'univers intersideral . Voyez vous utilisez un vaisseau spatial pour vous déplacer c'est impossible, premièrement même a la vitesse lumière C, ces beacoup trop lent et a cet vitesse votre mass augmente et le temps s'arrête donc jamais vous n'atteindrais votre destination. Deuxièmement c'est impossible de contenir tout l'humanité dans un vaisseau spatial. Avec beaucoup je dis bien beaucoup d'énergie et des satellites modifier pour obtenir un actif laser beam, je vais vous montrer comment demolariculiser dissolver vos molécules a tous les êtres humains de la planète Terre, et pouvoir vous emmener vers une autre Habitants car votre planète n'en a plus pour longtemps. La première raison, la cause d'une injection d'énergie venant du point zéro d'énergie ce qui amène d'énormes pression sur votre planète Terre Voyer les tremblements de terre et ces volcans croyez vous que ces normal et que votre soleil répond simplement a un cycle. Deuxièmement, maintenant votre soleil par Lui même a commencé a encerclé la Terre d'un champ magnétique qui deviendra de plus en plus puissant et formera un vortex thermonucléaire qui brûlera pareil a Pluton a une époque était en orbite presque qu'à la même place que la Terre aujourd'hui, regarder cette brûlures orange sur Pluton cela est venu du même soleil avec ce même type de vortex thermonucléaire qui a poucer Pluton Hors de votre système solaire. Ce type de vortex thermonucléaire arrive par cycle, déjà sur Terre a certains endroits le fer a déjà commencé a fondre donc des métaux comme l'or, cuivre aussi, croyez moi ces endroits deviendrons impossible pour la vie car c'est zone deviendrons complètement électrique dû a un alliage parfait de ses métaux fondue qui se mélangeront et dû a un effet de refroidissement deviendrons de parfait conducteur. Je sais c'est une histoire très courte d'un point de vue scientifique mais si vous croyez que je suis ici pour aider vous devez savoir que je vais tout expliquer donc pour tout les non croyant ils n'auront qua vérifiée mes dires des que je rentrerai dans les détails. Mon ami je vous demande pas de croire en moi d'un point de vue religieux, mais plutôt du point vue scientifique. Ou Spirituale ID 😎 Philippe
You won't find the answer to this question. In god or god's 😊
The reason there is something rather than nothing is that his royal holiness, the noodly source of everything, is a sadistic prankster.
To wonder on the mystery of existence is mother of all thought that makes us humans. Animals are different from us only in this one aspect of life.
I think If there is an answer to the existence of God; it is in such a question"why there is something rather then nothing"
The laws of nature are contingent, they didn't have to exist. Actually the whole Cosmos is contingent, it didn't have to exist.
Everything within the Universe had a beginning. The whole Cosmos is created. So it is obvious that it must have exist an self-existent and self-explanatory creator and sustainer of all things. Religion calls "God" to that entity. That's pure logic.
If there is a multiverse it is also contingent. Who created that multiverse? Why there is a multiverse rather than nothing? Its the same question.
Hi I want to point few thing before we go big to a understanding of your origine, and a understanding of your cosmos and also an understanding of your multivers. First we have to have a way better grasp of what is Time how Much different sort of Time and when to combine them or witch sort of time you have to chose and why. So, Time : we know lineair Time, we have the (NOW) this now time is the one you born in and also the NOW time is the one that all your experience mix with all your conscience and inconscient and even your death will happen. This (NOW) Time is fondamentale for each of you so each of you as a different (NOW) , so 100 human being = 100 (NOW). Each planete, each galaxy, each nebula, each everything as is proper (NOW) so, as the fact Let's say, a lots of Sun into a galaxy ok, so each Sun into a galaxy as is OWN (NOW), as each neutrons stars as is proper (NOW) listen as each galaxy as is proper is unique (NOW) hope is OK till now, LOL joke till NOW , any way you fallow Me, if you zoom in a galaxy to pic a detail let say your solar systeme, so this solar systeme as is OWN (NOW), as you zoom in your solar systeme are any otter and you pic Earth and is moon, so, Earth and is moon as there OWN (NOW) OK. But you can not pic one planet let say plus a moon that dont Belong to is proper ensemble. The same with any otters ensemble that you will discover eventualy, so the cosmos as is OWN (NOW) and you zoom into some detail and you pic nebula, so nebula as is OWN (NOW) but if you zoom in and you pic an singel atom of ionise or neutral or moléculaire hydrogen this one as is proper (NOW) a quarks as is OWN proper (NOW) as long is always part of the same proper ensemble. Look you always juste use the cosmos as long the stuff you talk about is part of the proper cosmos OK, no worry I Do it Quick, we can go way deeper than that. Listen BLACK HOLE do not go like that because is form from to many proper (now) that is all mix Up some part of this are not there but otters part of that is mix with those half there but not same ensemble, something like this, right Will come back to Black Hole in time. We have the C Time what suppose to be faster speed ever wish is not at all I can tell you expansion some time go way over 48^C, Ho yes trust Me. The probleme with speed of light is when you Reach it the mass is more heavier and the Time stop. And the Time of cosmos, it is elastic not at all now listen take a cube and 10 by 10 km, ok now separate this cube inside by 1 square cm. Ok, the cosmos is the big cube and you zoom in at 1square cm this tiny part of the cosmos represent a scale and this tiny part of is proper time Is(NOW) are the cosmos proper (NOW) so it work with time (NOW) too. Hope it make some sense probably not but nex Time I bring Electron to it and so and so My goal is many goal but the proper one is Let's get out from Earth before you should know Philippe 😎 ID love and care about each of you
Hi I want to point few thing before we go big to a understanding of your origine, and a understanding of your cosmos and also an understanding of your multivers. First we have to have a way better grasp of what is Time how Much different sort of Time and when to combine them or witch sort of time you have to chose and why. So, Time : we know lineair Time, we have the (NOW) this now time is the one you born in and also the NOW time is the one that all your experience mix with all your conscience and inconscient and even your death will happen. This (NOW) Time is fondamentale for each of you so each of you as a different (NOW) , so 100 human being = 100 (NOW). Each planete, each galaxy, each nebula, each everything as is proper (NOW) so, as the fact Let's say, a lots of Sun into a galaxy ok, so each Sun into a galaxy as is OWN (NOW), as each neutrons stars as is proper (NOW) listen as each galaxy as is proper is unique (NOW) hope is OK till now, LOL joke till NOW , any way you fallow Me, if you zoom in a galaxy to pic a detail let say your solar systeme, so this solar systeme as is OWN (NOW), as you zoom in your solar systeme are any otter and you pic Earth and is moon, so, Earth and is moon as there OWN (NOW) OK. But you can not pic one planet let say plus a moon that dont Belong to is proper ensemble. The same with any otters ensemble that you will discover eventualy, so the cosmos as is OWN (NOW) and you zoom into some detail and you pic nebula, so nebula as is OWN (NOW) but if you zoom in and you pic an singel atom of ionise or neutral or moléculaire hydrogen this one as is proper (NOW) a quarks as is OWN proper (NOW) as long is always part of the same proper ensemble. Look you always juste use the cosmos as long the stuff you talk about is part of the proper cosmos OK, no worry I Do it Quick, we can go way deeper than that. Listen BLACK HOLE do not go like that because is form from to many proper (now) that is all mix Up some part of this are not there but otters part of that is mix with those half there but not same ensemble, something like this, right Will come back to Black Hole in time. We have the C Time what suppose to be faster speed ever wish is not at all I can tell you expansion some time go way over 48^C, Ho yes trust Me. The probleme with speed of light is when you Reach it the mass is more heavier and the Time stop. And the Time of cosmos, it is elastic not at all now listen take a cube and 10 by 10 km, ok now separate this cube inside by 1 square cm. Ok, the cosmos is the big cube and you zoom in at 1square cm this tiny part of the cosmos represent a scale and this tiny part of is proper time Is(NOW) are the cosmos proper (NOW) so it work with time (NOW) too. Hope it make some sense probably not but nex Time I bring Electron to it and so and so My goal is many goal but the proper one is Let's get out from Earth before you should know Philippe 😎 ID love and care about each of you
Hi again I forgot this time also existe,In my opinion. The gravitationnelle wave, it’s not juste a powerfull wisper coming from the deepes abys of time. The Universe it’s not a ensemble of all that existe. Univers is not Eternal or infinit. Some they suppose it’s not possible as Human by is feeling or mind to Reach it. But physicien they are stuck. They not the only one actually, and I will help them the better I can, of coars [ LOL 😎 ]^🌈🤣. Ok Let’s keep going , they still imagine Infinity , they still explore the one ( Univers ) the one who they live on, and percive on. Yes every day, it got some stuff happening, that we never see , but I will tel you that they existe. I guess we have to talk about Time, Ho my GOD. Time and Time. Yes with some elementary data, for who whant to broke the mistery of Time, pass, present , Futur, and Let’s put history , phylosophy , social ,initiatic , and scientific , 😎 Good Luck . For sûre , good Luck. Time is juste for us , it’s the second Time I give you the awnser. Wait I am not finish yet. If your belived are Better go my freind, go where the comfort of your big Working mind will Please you , and also relax you…Because now it’s about distance, of coars Time is. As well for Astronomy, Astrophysic, Cosmology, ., Your notion about infinit regress. Explications about Time , space and the way we mesure distance TODAY STILL. Tell me if I am not right, today for me it’s not possible giving you all of you Ladies and Gentleman a presise DÉFINITION OF TIME is not acurate, especialy not possible. I so sorry for real. If you ready ladies and Gentleman , if you ready to acceptes my humble difinition of Time . If you accepte it’s OK, if not Let’s stop. Ok I go, Time, IT is a sort of mesure of life with extrem fluctuations percive by the inconscient , and the conscient by phylosophe, and scientific. In a sence Time is or be a manifestation of non stop, insecente révolution of the life; of the matter. If it’s OK Let’s go I will continue. Thank for your patient and Time. Sincères amitiés Philippe Martin…😎🎶
According to Polkinghorne "because God has its own cause". OK, next question then: where does God come from ? Who or what created this God ? This is not helping us in any way.
You can ask “Why universe?” You cannot ask “Why God?” Because ‘why’ presupposes a cause.
If it is possible for something to be its own cause, then why do we even need a god? The universe was its own cause.
– Why is there something rather than nothing?
– God knows
– Good answer! I never thought of it this way! Well, there you go
A Something is impossible to exist alone. it necessarily requires Everything.
The antithesis is between Nothing and Everything.
But, Nothing is equivalent to Everything.
In the sense that:
Everything is as Nothing as Nothing is, because Everything is not Something.
Nothing and Everything,, two sides of the same coin.
So, the ultimate question, which brings the self (or God if you like) into the discussion, is "why exist at all?"
Because you want?
I mean if you don't want, the way out is easy
Nothing to see here.
When people resort to,God made it so,end of discussion,we are stuck,never to advance.
Hi Guys, this question, why does anything exist ?, actually proves Gods existence. Proof below.
Simple logic, things exists, everything can’t be contingent on something else existing. Otherwise, it’s chicken and egg which came first, an infinite regression, infinitely avoiding giving an answer.
Therefore, something must exist, that is eternal, uncreated and therefore exists necessarily, not contingent on anything else. The Bible captures this logic by naming God as the “I am”.
So we are left with two alternatives for the uncreated entity,
Option 1 the traditional “biblical” God, or
Option 2 the laws of nature – but with the added superpower of being uncreated.
Google gives “The idea of laws of nature was introduced in the 17th and 18th centuries. The term was used in the context of the idea that God created laws to govern the motions of material bodies in the universe”
Now, if you investigate option 2, “the super powered laws of nature”, they turn out to be God by another name. Proof below.
God’s defining characteristics are omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscience and uncreated. These characteristics are the same as we ascribe to the “laws of nature”.
Omnipotent (nothing can disobey the laws of nature), omnipresent (the laws apply everywhere and for all time) omniscient (every that happens is solely because of the laws)
Everyone believes in something with the characteristics of God. Before the 17th century, when we invented the term, “laws of nature” everyone’s name for God was God.
The only difference between the two options, is if you ascribe a personality or mind to your version of God.
Is God(the laws) just a force to be aligned to ?, or can we go deeper in our understanding of the mind of God, and full on communicate with our creator/evolver.
If you believe the “super powered laws of our universe”, can evolve our human minds and our personality over a period of 13.8 billion years, then it’s fairly reasonable to believe, in an infinite period of time, the laws will have evolved their own mind and personality.
The only choices, we are left with Is believing
Option 1 -God created the universe and is external to it.
Option 2 – the universe itself is the massive brain of God, and that we are walking around inside of it.
Either way, quit atheism, it is provably wrong, and investigate the religions that exist on our planet. For more details, start praying (it kills stress and anxiety), you live healthier (no addictions), live an average of 7 years longer and merge back with God when you die.
Because the universe is expanding faster than the particle pairs can annihilate one another.
Yea, I'm in the we aren't smart enough camp. Remember that your thoughts, including all your explanations about why there is something and not nothing, are material facts, like a real material chess board with 100,000,000,000 pieces all interacting at once. Large as that is it is still finite, and the universe you live in is, if not infinite, is still vastly bigger than you, in size, duration, and complexity. Demanding that we be able to explain everything about the universe, including why it is here, is like demanding that the chess board be able to make a model of ever possible fact about the universe it is imbedded in.
The other problem is that an explanation about why there is something and not nothing is unlike every other explanation you know. Every other explanation you know describes how some “thing” changed into some other “thing”, they are not about creation they are about change. The question of creation is outside the structure of thought. If we ever can come up with an answer, we will have to have a different kind of thought.
I'm posting 3 comments, you have to read backwards to get the order of it. Finally, I think that the entire idea of “nothing” may be an illusion, a semantic confusion. “Nothing” combines “not”, which is simple negation with “thing” which is the generic term for any object you can experience or conceive of. In common use, it does not really mean “not anything at all”, it means more like “not anything I care about or notice or can perceive” but that is a far cry from the true nothing. The word nothing is the semantic combination of “not” and “thing” but the thing it refers to, the true nothing, is almost unconceivable, it may not really exist. Sabine H did a good video about the 9 layers of nothing.
And finally part 2. Why even ask the question of why something and not nothing? 1. Three answers: Its interesting (to me) that we start with the question and end up talking about God (well not all of us, but more than a few). Maybe that’s the point. 2. If the question has no answer that doesn’t mean it’s useless. If it has no answer, it still tells you something about yourself and your place in the universe. It tells you that there are limits to the power of your though, it tells you that the universe doesn’t necessarily operate according to your rules of thought (btw I do believe in science, just know that it has limits). 3. So, there is something and not nothing and you can’t figure out why, what do you do with that fact? Well, I think gratitude is in order, because it didn’t have to be this way, you didn’t have to be here but you are. There is something and I’m exceedingly grateful to be part of it.
Yea, I'm in the we aren't smart enough camp. Remember that your thoughts, including all your explanations about why there is something and not nothing, are material facts, like a real material chess board with 100,000,000,000 pieces all interacting at once. Large as that is it is still finite, and the universe you live in is, if not infinite, is still vastly bigger than you, in size, duration, and complexity. Demanding that we be able to explain everything about the universe, including why it is here, is like demanding that the chess board be able to make a model of ever possible fact about the universe it is imbedded in.
He created “saints and scientists”, also genocides and politicians. We got to embrace the whole thing to appreciate His generosity!