Ex Nihilo is a Joke
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“. . .it starts with an empty universe”
~ Stephen Fry, Cosmos, vii
An empty universe is paradox.
In such a boundless space there’d be no time.
Among all other blanks there’d be no clocks.
Eternity could not produce a chime.
This space would be more contradiction than
A paradox, a gallop lacking bounds,
And what could possibly measure the span
Of utter nothingness with want of sounds?
Eternity is quite another thing,
Though. It is filled with God. Because of him
Eternity exists. Time is a ping
Because God fills the cosmos to the brim.
Eternity is filled with God . . . but days
And stars subsist because God spoke their blaze.
~ Phillip Whidden
Saint Augustine of Hippo