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In reply to the discussion: Does the Big Bang breakthrough offer proof of God? [View all]politicman
(710 posts)You make some good points, but unfortunately those points don't answer the original questions of what was there before the universe came into being.
Now let me explain, 13.3 billions years ago is what we are told is the minimum number of years that the universe hasexisted for. That number could be a zillion years and it would still not explain the above question.
As I said to someone else, everything has a beginning or the conditions for a beginning to eventuate.
So things that have come into being in our world had the conditions to come into being, namely our world.
Our world had the conditions to some into being, namely the universe.
So then we ask what conditions were in place for the universe to come into being and where did those conditions come from?
And so on and so on.
The question is infinite because we know that for something to exist, it needs the conditions to be available for it to start existing.
As no matter what explanation the scientist come up with, the question can still be asked (keeping in mind that this question can be infinite), at some point the answer will have to be that the conditions for the original particle, entity, whatever you want to call just existed.
And so if we are to eventually end up at the 'conditions just existed' theory, that is in essence having faith in something we can never explain, no different from religion really.
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