Yeah. Okay. Is there any consensus about what caused the big bang? Like, how it happened?
It seems to me abiogenesis is super tricky but conceivable. The "beginning" of everything is a bit more conceptually problematic.
Positing a hyper-powerful creative entity seems not that epistemologically reckless when the more "scientific" alternative is "something happened".
Positing a hyper-powerful creative entity seems not that epistemologically reckless when the more "scientific" alternative is "something happened".
Jumping from "something happened" to "a hyper-powerful creative entity happened" is not reckless? Especially when we have evidence that more complex things can arise from less complex things without a supernatural manager guiding the process.
What makes you look at the vast set of "somethings" that might have been responsible for the origin of the universe, and...
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