it solves nothing and actually makes the problem worse by adding another complex element into the picture.
Exactly. Either "something" popped into existence from nothing, or has always been.
If God is "allowed" by you to have always existed, why not impersonal but orderly space-time?
Why complicate the matter with a personal sky fairy who writes bad books?
However, I must remind you that most scientists tell us that the universe had a beginning.
This particular universe, likely yes.
No one knows what "things" were "like" before the big bang, and either possibility
(Either the universe sprang into existence, or something eternal "caused" it) are
both equally absurd to the human mind.
So what if there IS some eternal "first cause"; a universe-making "fabric" outside of our
known universe... What does that have to do with the anthropomorphic God of the
Judeo-christian tradition? Why does a "first cause" give ANY credence at ALL to your
pet feel-good notions of whatever preceded the big bang?
which brings me to...
One must conclude that atheism is nothing more than a superstituous fairy tale designed to pacify adults.
Pacify? Pacify? Atheism is terrifying! You think there is something comforting about the notion that the
universe didn't "intend" to make us, that there is no one out there that cares, and that we are the only
thin chance this broken planet has?
Atheism requires a level of mature courage that most people will never achieve, including, possibly, me.
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