it's a good job that to the best of our understanding the universe is infinite in both time and space then.
tangent alert: call me a hippy burn-out but i think the phenomenon of consciousness itself is the 'solution' to the problem of infinity, by the way. in it's uniqueness, it asks the...
my previous post states my true opinion about all this but i had to answer here like a smartarse... (or a charlatan)
2) it's called the goldilocks principal. this planet, etc, is JUST RIIIGGHT!!
consciousness asks us to go looking for the needle in the haystack, but only may do so because we...
hay!
for my tuppence worth i think that one's conception of God (primitive as it/we may be) should be considered via the philosophical/spiritual concept of knowledge (self and or otherwise) through direct experience
this means not being second hand people, never relying on information we have...
That is a great book. If you want a GREAT read and yet some extremely dry chortles along the way - I highly recommend God Is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens. His spoken word audio version is even better. The man is a sardonic legend.