(September 4, 2013 at 11:46 pm)Max_Kolbe Wrote: No, there was no tone. I just thought of the metaphysical question after my first.
So the question is, what does the evidence tell us about how everything got here? Do we have enough evidence to answer that question?
Yes. Now sure, in some respects it's limited and open to change. For example, most of the Big Bang theory is fairly solid with (possibly) the beginning of time being about 13.81 billion years ago, with the universe being a tenselessly existing 4-dimensional block of spacetime prior (if the word is even applicable here) under the B-theory of time. Likewise is fairly well understood is the development of stars, solar systems, planets and so on. You hit a speed bump at the origin of life question, though progress is being made on abiogenesis. After that, you've got evolution which has some issues in the more complex details, but that it happened and, to a large extent, how it happened, is very well understood.
Seems an okay overview. :p
