24 Jan '14 10:18>
Originally posted by wittywonkaIt doesn't work like that.
Until some physicist can prove that the Big Bang was simply some spectacular quantum event that needed not a prior precipitating event, how could you really answer anything besides 4.0?
I'm more receptive to the idea that certain accounts of God's existence may be presumably more or less (im)probable, but not with regards to the idea of some sort of "higher being."
Even if we had absolutely no idea at all how our reality came into existence
or how it functioned you would still have absolutely no justification for belief
that a god exists unless there is evidence FOR the existence of such a god.
Invoking god does not explain how the universe came into being.
All [valid] explanations explain things in terms of other things we already understand.
In 'explaining' the beginning of the universe [assuming it has a beginning] by invoking
a god you are simply replacing one mystery with a bigger one.