This is an absolute gem:
The bottom line is that they all rely on the geometry for physical causation and ...
In the absence of space, things cannot exist.In the absence of time, events cannot occur.
I used this quote with my Sunday School class this morning. It hit me between the eyes at about 5 AM, and it STUCK. (And I said it came from someone so much more able to explain this than I ever would be.)
My wife teaches Calculus. My Mom devours books. My favorite online females are the deepest of thinkers on subjects of physics, metaphysics, biology, genetics, etc.
I summed it up by saying: "Every single female I know is light years smarter than me."
All the ladies in the class "wisely" nodded their heads in agreement.
:>)
Thank you oh so very much for all of your encouragements!
LOLOL xzins!!! You so funny!
In the void, in the nothing, there is no space and there is no time. There is no causation. There is no principle of activity or animation. There is simply ... nothing. And nothing cannot bootstrap itself into something....
The "eternal universe" model is senseless; for in rejecting the necessity of a beginning, it obviates, or refuses to recognize, that nothing cannot bootstrap itself into something. And yet the universe is there.... Its existence is inexplicable according this model.
The sheer existence of the universe is, to me, the most indisputable evidence that God created it, ex nihilo. It required an "uncaused cause" to get the ball rolling, so to speak.
The reason for that is there cannot be an infinite regression of causes back to a nothing. Nothing causes nothing, and therefore cannot serve as the cause of anything.