Atheistic Dogma- Scientific Fundamentalism

[Chas]

And what was the universe doing for the 13.7 billion years before our consciousness emerged?

The idea that our consciousness makes reality is incoherent.

The idea would be that there was no "before consciousness emerged" because consciousness and the material universe are one and the same elements.

"Consciousness makes reality" would assume that one came before the other and again, I refer to my other thread with regard to time progression. If we assume a different perspective regarding time progression, than the idea of one thing resulting from another in terms of how we perceive it would be illusory.

There is simply no evidence of that. None.