Quotes about Existence

Socrates once said that the unexamined life is not worth living.3

On the other hand, if there is no God, then your life ultimately means nothing. Since there is no enduring purpose to life, there's no right or wrong way to live it. And it doesn't matter how you live or what you believe—your destiny is dust.

In fact, the ripples are so exact (down to one part in one hundred thousand) that Smoot called them the "machining marks from the creation of the universe" and the "fingerprints of the maker."15

General Relativity supports what is one of the oldest formal arguments for the existence of a theistic God—the Cosmological Argument.

We can know what we know about God because thought applies to reality. In that context, knowledge is possible. If thought does not apply to reality, then we can know nothing. Logic is a necessary presupposition of all thought. Without logic (the laws of thought), we can't even think

In the same way, the universe would be out of energy by now if it had been running from all eternity.

For nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.

The Law of Causality does not say that everything needs a cause. It says that everything that comes to be needs a cause.

It's also important to understand that the universe did not emerge from existing material but from nothing—there was no matter before the Big Bang. In fact, chronologically, there was no "before" the Big Bang because there are no "befores" without time, and there was no time until the Big Bang.

Time, space, and matter came into existence at the Big Bang.

this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself. (Pensees, #148)

the greatest miracle of all—the creation of the universe out of nothing—has already occurred, which means Genesis 1:1 and every other miracle in the Bible is believable.