Math is how we describe the universe. In a different universe in which intelligent life could still exist, they would just invent different math to describe that universe.
The evidence suggests that no energy was created with the universe, it's a case of 1+1-2=0. But I'm sure the actual case being the opposite of what you imagine God did won't phase you in the slightest: you'll just change the story to claim that no net energy is what you'd expect if God did it. I don't usually put words in people's mouths, but you seem very predictable on this count.
It was reasonable for primitive people who knew squat about natural causes to posit that a being like them, only much more powerful and invisible, was the sender of things out of their control like earthquakes and rain. It's a simple idea that has stuck with us, that doesn't make it reasonable to suggest in a modern age when we know that the only causes we've ever found for anything over thousands of years have been natural ones.
It's your right to believe in whatever version of God you find most plausible. If it was reasonable, it wouldn't require faith.
The evidence suggests that no energy was created with the universe, it's a case of 1+1-2=0. But I'm sure the actual case being the opposite of what you imagine God did won't phase you in the slightest: you'll just change the story to claim that no net energy is what you'd expect if God did it. I don't usually put words in people's mouths, but you seem very predictable on this count.
It was reasonable for primitive people who knew squat about natural causes to posit that a being like them, only much more powerful and invisible, was the sender of things out of their control like earthquakes and rain. It's a simple idea that has stuck with us, that doesn't make it reasonable to suggest in a modern age when we know that the only causes we've ever found for anything over thousands of years have been natural ones.
It's your right to believe in whatever version of God you find most plausible. If it was reasonable, it wouldn't require faith.
