Sounds a bit like sophistry. The question could be rephrased 'why/how does anything exist?' - which is a natural continuation of the questions scientists have been asking for a while. If you aren't interested in why and how things work, then don't bother to do science.
"Why is there something rather than nothing?" was just one person's choice of phrase. I wouldn't read too much meaning into his choice of words. On 6 January 2015 at 13:43, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote: > > ------------------------------ > *From:* meekerdb <[email protected]> > *To:* [email protected] > *Sent:* Monday, January 5, 2015 4:34 PM > *Subject:* Re: Why is there something rather than nothing? From quantum > theory to dialectics? > > On 1/5/2015 3:50 PM, LizR wrote: > > Eternal inflation seems to assume there is something because "there has > always been something". However if so, it sidesteps the underlying issue - > why is there this (eternal) something? The question itself - and any > attempted answer - can't be answered causally. > > > "Sidesteps"? or shows it's an invented issue. If there were nothing would > the issue be why isn't there something? Why should *nothing* be > unquestionably accepted as the default that needs no explanation? > > Nice question. > No easy answer jumps out as being the obvious answer either. Why the human > mind seems to come up with this assumption over and over again across > various cultures and periods of history. Why do you think humans seem to > accept this by and large as the default base state of everything. Could it > be an artifact of the way our minds work? > The idea of nothing as the default base state of the universe -- before > God (or Nature) created everything - seems quite widespread. > -Chris > > Brent > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
