Subj : The universe            4
To   : Todd Henson
From : Bob Eyer
Date : Sat Jan 06 2001 07:44 pm

BE:
-But the concept of cause has no meaning unless it occurs in the
-world of appearance, i.e.  in the universe.  Therefore no
-empirical meaning can be attached to the question "What caused the
-universe to exist?" There is no logically possible way to answer
-such a question.

>Yes, it IS logical, because if the universe was created, then
>something had to create it.

True, but there is no evidence that the universe was created.
There is only evidence that there was a beginning to the
universe, not that the beginning was the result of an act of
creation.

From creation one may deduce a creator, but from a beginning one
may not validly deduce a creation.

Bob

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