What never ceases to amuse me, are people with genuine metaphysical questions, who look at the universe and ascribe god as a first cause. But when you ask the obvious question:"but who created god?", their answer invariably goes along the lines of: "he is eternal and requires no creator".
In one fell swoop, they neatly square away everything, by sticking their heads back into the sand from whence it came!
I personally think that is a terrible question.
There is nothing in the physical world that shows any remote evidence towards a "start" or creation, at all. That is likely a human concept that will quite possibly eventually have no true place in science. Everything can be tracked to merely changing form, which can be attributed to general interaction with other bits of "stuff" and the startling implication of "never" an end and the constant flux of interaction indicates that you will absolutely know consciousness again.
There is no evidence of any creation whatsoever. There is no evidence of the word "nothing" holding true, anywhere.
When you start to contemplate whether our language is in fact leading us to believe in false concepts (ie, creation, nothing etc), things become less paradoxical.
Also, they become highly less scary in terms of this idea that you must grasp to the idea that you will live on, beyond death - because it is 100% true that we know of nothing that is "destroyed" in the act of death, other than the configuration of the components that make you up.
