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Comments by spacewaltzer


1. Responses to 'Gods and Earthlings' by Richard Dawkins

Comment #165911 by spacewaltzer on April 22, 2008 at 3:14 pm

n the end, he, like everyone else, must confront one of two choices: Either the universe has always existed, or it was created by someone who has always existed.


If you wanted an example of a bifurcation fallacy, could you ask for any better? The use of "someone" also cracks me up: it could have been any one of the crowd of people milling around before the universe began!

Of course the statement "the universe has always existed" can be taken two ways. I think what the author means is "the universe has existed for an infinite amount of time". If, however, time itself began with the creation of the universe, then the universe has existed for the whole of time, i.e. always, but not for an infinite amount of time.

The author gives no consideration to the possibility of multiple universes, either.