What he also explains is that the word 'nothing' is a human concept that has no real reference in nature.
Really? I'm relatively sure he dug himself a comfortable little troll-hole with that ostentatious claim about nothing. I remember (take it with a grain of salt) him getting called out on it by others at a talk, backpeddling and deflecting as he tried not to appear disingenuous. Other people at the talk dropped it pretty quickly (as far as I recall), as they were all busy supporting and patting one another on the back (a bunch of bullshitters getting money for nothing aren't going to rock the boat ta
lking them to lucre-town<-- salty).
We have two entities competing for the position of "eternal and uncreated."
For one of them, we have vast evidence that it really exists. For the other, we have no evidence at all.
This is why an "eternal and uncreated universe" is a vastly superior answer to the question of ultimate reality than an "eternal and uncreated god."
I'm not following your reasoning. How is one answer superior to the other, without a reliable bit of information to push the scale towards one side or the other?
I can imagine a few scenarios:
If we find that the basic building blocks of the universe are sentient, and remember the beginning, and can tell us their experiences?? We're in luck.
They might say "well, we harnessed the resources that could be recovered from the multiverse by our efforts, and didn't meet any God, although spacetime has always been around [sic]" (a-round, as in cubic)."
Then again, they might say "We are the BorG, we are the unitary consciousness that created all things, including you temporal consciousnesses for exploration of various ideas involving multiple consciousnesses, which caused the original "fall" as many of our number, who were all one, desired the experience of knowing others, which shattered the whole into the many, and humpty dumpty we are not, prepare for the timecube... just joking, yeah, we're what all monotheistic religions have mistakenly called God, what nerds call fundamental particles, etc. etc.."
Maybe God will tell you "you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, and are 10^39 times more focused upon what your fellow beings are doing and talking about than what I'm doing and talking about... I'm the big G EM-fuckers."
Or we don't find any consciousnesses, and have no fucking answers, which means absolutely fucking nothing about whether God created the universe as a perpetual motion machine or the universe was just always there doing universy stuff.
