Mark...if I understand you correct - you are saying that if we found a cause...and origin for everything then that would become part of the universe and we'd still need to ask for a cause and an origin for that - if we were to continue down that road - and it would just go on forever...
If that's what you are saying then I will say the fact that we need to go on forever doesn't mean there isn't one first cause...I don't think science ever needs to find the answer because even if science finds it - it will still have to keep checking to make sure it hasn't missed something. It can never know for sure that it absolutely has found the first cause I believe - even if it does find it.
Hope I've said at least something relevant or useful lol.
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If that's what you are saying then I will say the fact that we need to go on forever doesn't mean there isn't one first cause...I don't think science ever needs to find the answer because even if science finds it - it will still have to keep checking to make sure it hasn't missed something. It can never know for sure that it absolutely has found the first cause I believe - even if it does find it.
Hope I've said at least something relevant or useful lol.
EvF