Excellent article from Word on Fire.
Nothing's the matter with atheistic materialism
Nothing's the matter with atheistic materialism
So, what is "nothing"?Quote:
The central problem with atheistic materialism is nothing, really. Metaphysical nothing, to be exact.
Any worldview, including atheism, should be able to give some sort of coherent answer to the rudimentary question of why the universe exists. I don't mean, "Why does this universe exist rather than another?" I mean, "Why does there exist anything, rather than nothing?"
Dr. Victor Stenger, in a recent Huffington Post piece on how to debate religion, claims to have an answer. It turns out to be the standard materialist response given by many atheist scientists:There are several reasons why this answer is wrong, even incoherent and self-refuting:Quote:
How can something come from nothing? "Nothing" is notoriously difficult to define. To define it you have to give it some property. But then if it has a property it is not "nothing." So this is an incoherent question unless you define nothing as an empty vacuum.
People of integrity expect to be believed, when they're not, they let time prove them right.