Super Munch, the problem with the tought of the universe always being there is that the sun hasn't burned out. It was created by something (a nebula) which would have been created by something (a supernova) ewhich would have been created by something...
...you get the idea. The universe is also seen to be expanding (it might end with "the big pop").
Thinking on a more "I'm human, my mind can grasp this" scale, take any chemical reaction. It eventualy reaches equilibrium (nothing really happens anymore. It's quite boring). It takes an outside stress to make something happen, and even then it reaches a new equilibium pretty quickly. Give any system the time of... say... a few million years and it should be nicely boring and not teeming with explosions, compresions, life, and everything else going on.
Also, if the universe has ALWAYS been here, why haven't back holes consumed all matter? Given infinite time, they should have done it by now.
These are all just ways I use to try to get people to think a bit and realise what they don't know (and what I don't know).
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