[danielf]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

But science does not answer that. Why do things have to be linear? because we are? we have a start and a beggining does not mean everything does.
Isnt this the biggest pardox there is? if the universe ends what comes next and next and next and next infinately. How could time have begun? what was there before? nothing? but nothing is something but then you have to ask then where did everything come from and so resumes the paradox

I agree with you that these are very fundamental questions to which science does not (to my knowledge) have any real answers. However, to resolve the paradox by saying: oh, there must be some bloke in charge who doesn't need a beginning is rather unsatisfactory imo. It doesn't really solve the paradox anyway. It just 'explains' it away.