(May 29, 2012 at 6:49 pm)Undeceived Wrote: That's the question you should ask yourself. In the beginning of our universe there was a spike of energy. If you think material existed before that spike, where did it get its energy? And where did the energy come from before that? We move into infinite regress. Every energy output requires an energy input. Where did the chain start? Or has it been going on for eternity just like the Christian God?
And the answers to those questions are: we don't know if material existed before that spike, but there is no reason to believe that it didn't. We have no idea what happened then, so it stands to reason that we have no idea what happened before that. So while infinite regress cannot be ruled in, it also cannot be ruled out. We don't know where the chain started or if the chain started, but we have no reason to count out the eternity model. In short, unlike you and your god, we don't pull answers out of our ass.
