On Jan 14, 2008, at 6:34 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
>
> Why is there anything instead of nothing? The Judeo-Christian
> notion of
> creation is that we call the answer to that question (which we do not
> know) "God." ("Et hoc dicimus deum," says Aquinas.)
At least since Parmenides it has been well known that this question cannot be asked (ie., is meaningless) because one of its dichotomous possibilities (there is something/there is nothing) is selfcontradictory. *Nothing* cannot exist.
Shane Mage
"This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30