>>1079415You either have to believe something came from nothing, or that something was always there. If you take a materialist perspective, you have to believe that something which was always there was physical, always. Now, physical things obey causality, as far as anyone can tell. So if you have an infinite chain of events, how do you ever get to the current one? You have to believe the domino that's falling now was caused by the fall before that was caused by the fall before that... ad infinitum.
Spend some time reading about Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel to get an idea for why that's absurd.
>Muh "God can't be eternal either!!"If something immaterial exists, it doesn't follow the same rules as physical things. Numbers and mathematics exist in an abstract, arbitrary way; they follow the rules of arithmetic. 2 + 2 = 4. They don't obey the laws of gravity, that's a silly thing to imagine. How can the infinite series of Prime Numbers fall, or preserve momentum? How can a space-filling-curve have inertia? Oddly, it's mathematical rules that describe physics, so it can't be the other way around.
There's more to it than physical things. That's obvious to any thinking person. If you want to believe there's nothing but material, you have to believe that something came from nothing, or that an infinite chain of cause-and-effects can exist without creating a paradox. It's a stupid idea for stupid people. What's more, it's fruitless. So what if it's true? It doesn't get you anywhere. Even if it is true, it's better to believe something else.
