Message #764

[AndyHB]

Tabba,

Rather than continuing to answer your points individually, I'd like to address the question that is behind them all - that of the existence of God.

Many scientists tell us now that, once we can replicate the events of the nano-second following the Big Bang, all will be answered.  Others, on the other hand, seem to think that this may only create even more questions than questions it answers.

Now, I don't pretend to be a cosmologist (or any particular -ist other than a linguist at that), but as I understand the theory behind the Big Bang, the "universe was originally in an extremely hot and dense state that expanded rapidly. This expansion caused the universe to cool and resulted in the present diluted state that continues to expand today" (taken from Wikipedia as it puts it more succinctly than I can)

How did the 'stuff of universe' come to be in an extremely hot and dense state'?  How did that same 'stuff' actually come to be there in the first place?  Some scientists I have heard speak, suggest that something had to have happened outside of time and space, something that didn't adhere to scientific rules as we know them today (such as the Laws of Thermodynamics, of Gravity, or Relativity, ...) in order to trigger the formation and heating of that 'stuff'.  Yes, this could all of happened by happenchance, but similarly it could have happened at the behest of a purposeful being.  In view of the amazing order and purpose which I see around me in the world, I tend to think that this must be a reflection of a purposeful instigation rather than a happenchance-ful one.