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In reply to the discussion: Does the Big Bang breakthrough offer proof of God? [View all]politicman
(710 posts)You say that there was no 'before', but in your same comment you say there was a 'hot and dense entity'.
Now maybe I am mistaken, but 'hot and dense entity' is something.
Now do you believe that that 'hot and dense entity' just always existed or do you think there was something there for that 'hot and dense entity' to form into.
Secondly, we rely on laws of physics for our explanations. So if we take the cop out that our laws of physics were not in existence before the universe came into being, then we are effectively admitting that unless we develop a whole new set of physics, we will never know the real answer as to what was before the universe.
And if we ever develop a new set of the laws of physics, then we will just run up against the same problem we have now, namely that our new set of laws of physics would be inadequate to explain things the further we go back.
It is called 'infinite regression', there is always something that preceded what came into being.
Unless of course we just go on the faith that something just always existed, thus we are believing in something that makes no sense, the same way that people believe in a higher being creating things.
Both rely on faith.