Orac, you are absolutely right; I see no real distinction between saying "it has always been so" without explanation, and saying "God made it so".

This is not a criticism, specifically, of Finiter's theory, which I like, not necessarily because I think it might be on the point of turning conventional cosmology on its head, but because he has obviously put a lot of thought into it, it asks questions, and he defends it with good grace.

There never was nothing.