Sentences with phrase «existence from its nothingness»

Without a model of quantum gravity, it is IMPOSSIBLE to describe the initial state of the universe, or even be sure if it really was a singularity, let alone «coming into existence from nothingness» (not that we even have an example of «nothingness» to compare to.

Why aren't atheists ever swayed into belief by WLC's meanderings about his hypothetical «uncaused caused» (named god) which is made of nothing but poofed everything into existence from its nothingness?

Not exact matches

Nothingness is predicted by simple mathematics and the beginning of the universe came from absolutely nothing, like a proton popping into existence.

Nevertheless, the modern artist, by inverting or reversing our mythical traditions, has disclosed a totally immanent mode of existence banished even from the memory of transcendence, and created a comprehensive vision of a new and total nothingness which Blake named as Ulro, or Hell.

If from nothing bursts forth something, it's the very existence of nothingness from whence there could be....

Not only is the mutable world separated from its divine principle — the One — by intervals of emanation that descend in ever greater alienation from their source, but because the highest truth is the secret identity between the human mind and the One, the labor of philosophy is one of escape: all multiplicity, change, particularity, every feature of the living world, is not only accidental to this formless identity, but a kind of falsehood, and to recover the truth that dwells within, one must detach oneself from what lies without, including the sundry incidentals of one's individual existence; truth is oblivion of the flesh, a pure nothingness, to attain which one must sacrifice the world.

If your brain is merely a minuscule portion and intermediate result of a guideless process of self - existing particles that just happened to unpack themselves from an unexplained singularity and arrange themselves into various integrated systems of matter and life of increasing complexity over billions of years, which will ultimately disorganize and dissipate into nothingness, why should any value be attached to your thoughts, or to your existence?

In a Christian book of the second century, the Shepherd of Hermas, the first commandment is rendered: «First of all believe that God is one, who created and formed all things, who called everything from nothingness into existence, who, Himself incomprehensible, comprehends all in Himself.»

In my comment a couple of days ago I went through a thought experiment concerning the third possibility above and arrived at the following — if existence just is, then it was not created (either from God or out of nothingness) and therefore it has always been here (remember I'm talking about all of existence, not a conceivably lesser object like the universe).