Chapter 7: Nothing Makes Sense

 

1) Next, we shouldn’t be “put off” by the fact that G-d doesn’t seem to make sense. In reality, nothing seems to make sense.

2) Now if there was nothing, that would make sense. With nothing, there would be no “first cause” problem.

3) But, once we have something, we have a basic logical problem.

4) Once we have something, there are two possibilities. Either, there has always been something, or at one time there was nothing.

5) And both of the possible alternatives seem impossible – one just more obviously impossible than the other.

6) At one time there was nothing and then there was something sure doesn’t seem to make sense.

7) But that there has always been something doesn’t seem to make sense either.

8) Where did this “system” come from?

9) Even if the “Big Bang” keeps repeating itself, how did the “singularity” that allegedly keeps producing this big bang get there in the first place?

10) Is it just the nature of the Universe?

11) But superficially at least, it would make more sense to say that G-d was the nature of the Universe.

12) Being magical, G-d doesn't need explanation...

13) The logic of the singularity, however, requires explanation…

14) This is a little too deep to really resolve at this point, but hopefully you can feel the “first cause” problem here and sense that our scientific explanation also has a basic catch 22 in its configuration.

15) The rule of cause and effect seems to require that there be something before cause and effect... (Amoebas)