(April 13, 2016 at 3:25 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Even if the argument was valid and sound, it only would support a first cause.
Which could in fact be, a phase change in the singularity.
No gods required.
You phrased that as though the singularity was a thing. My understanding is that it is a mathematical idealization and not a real thing. It is a boundary, the metaphysical equivalent of nothing. Perhaps there was a phase change in the quantum field on the far side of the singularity. But then where did the quantum vacuum come from?