These are some reflections as I read theoretical physicist and cosmologist, Lawrence Krauss’s book ‘A Universe from Nothing’.

Krauss’s basic thesis seems to be that the laws of physics and particularly of quantum mechanics, show that the universe can have just happened without a Creator God.

If you look at my page on God’s existence (https://aquest-for-truth.net/existence-god/), I find it difficult to see this can be true.  Krauss argues that resolving the infinite regress by arguing that an eternal being is necessary for there to be creation is logically fallacious.   Consequently, as the infinite regress is unresolvable, then the best way to resolve it is to argue that the universe just happened or a universe from nothing.  But of course that begs the point about what is ‘nothing’, which Krauss seems to consider in in terms of ‘dark matter’ and dismisses philosophical questions about the nature of nothing, not based on empirical science, as useless and a waste of time.  This might be part of his problem.  I will develop this more in later blog.

In the very profound War Movie ‘A Thin Red Line’, the main character, Private Witt, says ‘one person sees a dying bird and sees death; another sees a dying bird and sees glory’.  In this reflection on life, nature and war, Witt points to a fundamental paradox of life, that the essence of life is beyond logic.