To the editor: Nice article by reporter Deborah Netburn as regards to God and the Universe. Within the opening paragraphs of her glorious column, she introduced up the last word conundrum that I’ve wrestled with for the previous decade: “Why are we right here? Why are any of us right here? Why does the universe exist as a substitute of nothing?”
A number of years in the past I got here throughout what gave the impression to be a reasonably harmless quote by the nice seventeenth century German mathematician and thinker Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: “Why is there one thing somewhat than nothing?”
On the time, that query did not strike me as that profound or fascinating. Since then, I’ve mirrored on that straightforward query and have concluded that it is without doubt one of the most fascinating and profound questions ever requested.
Irrespective of how laborious I attempt to think about that there’s nothing, I can not. One thing at all times will get in the best way.
Fred Gober, Playa Vista
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To the editor: We reside on a really small planet that appears to be dying. To sluggish or restrict that loss of life, everybody on it should be taught to return collectively and discover methods to cease killing our earth.
However there are such a lot of completely different varieties of individuals and due to this fact divisions on this planet, creating an incapacity to return collectively. Do we want completely different religions so as to add to this mixture of divisions?
As a religious atheist, I ponder a couple of world with out faith and a minimum of one minor (main) division.
Tony Foster, Oceanside