RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
September 25, 2014 at 3:41 pm
(September 25, 2014 at 3:31 pm)pocaracas Wrote: All we know... actually infer from the available evidence... is that the known Universe (we have no idea about the unknown in this universe alone, much less about any other possible, but also unknown, universe) once was extremely dense and extremely small.I believe that the proper approach is to make something up ("the universe just keeps forming and re-forming itself every 72.7 trillion years") and then daring anyone to prove it wrong. Since they can't, your theory becomes fact and everyone must accept it or be wrong.
Prior to that, if "prior" is a concept that can be applied to that state of the Universe, we don't know.
No one knows.
"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