(August 1, 2013 at 3:50 pm)John79 Wrote: I would like to understand what you believe is the cause of the universe and the world's existance.
I have no idea. I was religious for many years, and I left it due to a lack of faith; I didn't find god and finally figured that he wasn't there to be found. I hadn't thought about the origins of the universe apart from the idea that an ever-present being decided to create it all one day. Since I don't believe that he's there, I don't believe that anymore. I have not filled that particular gap with anything, since I don't think science has come up with a definitive explanation, and many of the theories sound pretty crazy to someone (like me) with a relatively limited understanding of physics.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
