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Beginnings

Q: The whole world is evidence of a Superior Creative Intelligence.

A: How so?

Q: Well, all things must have had a beginning, and that beginning can only be God.

A: That's puzzling. It is my experience that nothing has a beginning; for all beginnings have beginnings and so on ad infinitum.

Q: Yes, but where did the whole of Nature come from? It must have had an original beginning.

A: You agree that all things have beginnings. So this "original" beginning of Nature, according to your reasoning, must also have a beginning. If a beginning has a beginning it cannot be a beginning. Thus I say that all is beginningless. And consider this too: how can that which is without beginning have an end?

Q: If nothing has a beginning, then why do scientists say the big bang was the beginning of the Universe?

A: God knows! They also say time began at the big bang; but how can something begin when time doesn't exist? All talk of beginnings and ends is futile. It is as rational to say there are beginnings as to say there are no beginnings: both have their use, and their correct place.

 

 

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