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[ScriptureLover]

Yeah, I'm not sure any of us have the answers. It's fun to speculate though......

[TrespassersW]

It sure is. I guess I'm just in a speculatin' mood lately.

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I'm not sure that creation ex nihilo is any less physically impossible than eternal material existence and the consequent problem of infinite regression.

Actually, I disagree here, but in your favor. Ideas very similar to creation ex nihilo have actually gained a lot of credibility lately in the realm of physics. Since matter and anti-matter combine to mutually anihilate each other, it is suspected that one could concevably start with nothing, and split the nothing into component parts of matter/anti-matter. Seems to me that this notion has quite a bit in common with Creation Ex Nihilo. It has even been speculated that this sort of reaction is how the universe began.

Even more intersting (to me), is that modern physicists have evidence to indicate that certain high-energy reactions (achieved via particle accelerators) will occasionally "borrow" a particle temporarily from the universe, as it were. Not really related to theology, but intersting nonetheless.

[ScriptureLover]

Interesting points on physics. I remember being completely astonished when I learned that electrons are not particles at all, not of matter anyway, but actually particles of probability! Whoa! The Quantum is soooooooooooo weird, yet exciting to read in.