"Asking why there is something rather than nothing presumes “nothing” is the natural state of things out of which “something” needs an explanation. Maybe “something” is the natural state of things and “nothing” would be the mystery to be solved. As the physicist Victor Stenger notes in his book, The Fallacy of Fine Tuning: “Current cosmology suggests that no laws of physics were violated in bringing the universe into existence. The laws of physics themselves are shown to correspond to what one would expect if the universe appeared from nothing. There is something rather than nothing because something is more stable.” Michael ShermerSkeptic » eSkeptic » Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The wrong question?
There's nothing wrong with asking wrong questions. How else are you gonna get around to the right ones?
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