Dean Zimmerman - Why is There "Something" Rather Than "Nothing"?

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Why isn’t there nothing at all? Why is it not the case that there is no cosmos, no laws of nature, no consciousness, literally nothing at all? Scientists claim that the universe came from nothing. But what’s the nature of that kind of nothing? That’s where the confusion lies. We know, obviously, that there is not nothing. The big question is why?

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Dean W. Zimmerman is a Distinguished Professor of philosophy at Rutgers University specializing in metaphysics and the philosophy of religion.

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