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John
08-16-2012, 09:07 PM
Stephen Hawking said, "All the evidence seems to indicate that the universe has not existed forever, but that it had a beginning, about 15 billion years ago."

An eternity of the past of cause and effects would be impossible, because if there was this infinite regress, you would have had by that definition an eternity to come into being before now, so you should have already happened, having had an eternity to do so.