It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: cryptic0void
a reply to: scorpio84
Your curiosity is first cause, then. Thanks for expressions of compassion.
originally posted by: scorpio84
Whether or not one believes in deities, it seems that there is at least a common consensus that everything has an origin. In this post, I'd like to put it to the ATS community that there is no "first cause" and that the question of creation is superfluous. Do you agree? If it be the case that there was no creative event, how does/should that influence our perspective of our world, the universe, and reality?
originally posted by: scorpio84
If it be the case that there was no creative event, how does/should that influence our perspective of our world, the universe, and reality?
~ Max Planck
"I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness."
Kind of boggles the mind a bit.
Did the Universe give rise to consciousness? Or did consciousness give rise to the Universe?
originally posted by: rigel4
The question should be .... How was the first matter created?
Impossible to answer.. my puny mind says the answer is
too stupefying for any human mind to ever ever understand ..
there cant even be any serious theories to this question.