There are lots of possibilities (which really means that we don't know). Think about the future of the universe. The last I read on the subject, the universe was believed to be presently expanding (for the latest, you might want to ask Alex K, the rocket scientist who we are depending on to solve our mineshaft-gap problem). It could conceivably continue expanding forever. Or another possibility is that gravity will slow everything down, and eventually pull everything back toward each other, which would result in a rather large bang when everything crashes into everything else. If that is what will happen, perhaps that is what the "Big Bang" was all those years ago, and maybe this has been going on over and over forever.
Of course, we don't know if that is what is going on or not, or, at least, the last time I bothered reading anything on this, we did not know. Certainly, you are right that not knowing the answer to something does not justify the claim that God did it.
Some things, you just don't know, and pretending to know does not alter that fact.
Of course, we don't know if that is what is going on or not, or, at least, the last time I bothered reading anything on this, we did not know. Certainly, you are right that not knowing the answer to something does not justify the claim that God did it.
Some things, you just don't know, and pretending to know does not alter that fact.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
