Points, which interested me in this thread are:
1. Nothing is never a possibility. See, within the domain of our senses, God may be nothing but, within the domain of different type of senses (unknown to us currently) God could be something (may or may not be responsible for our creation, existence or so to say governing us)
2. Analogy of Net world, Programmer to Universe and God was nicely put forth by stevemckay, which may or may not be a reality.
3. falasy of No - thing and Nothing explained by WakeTFU
4. My view tallies with that of Gila and WakeTFU as far as God and our universe are concerned
To elaborate, to my mind God ( which may be given any arbitary name) is something existing as universal consciousness (the basic life force) but, becomes individual consciousness due to individual body and mind. Anything which is within our conception scientifically or otherwise and even beyond are just properties of that God,.which is beyond conception.God and its properties are eternally existant and therefore to me, there is no creator and creation sort of truth existing.
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