In the beginning . . . page 1
Zigmen 23rd January 2012, 04:44 PM In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded. -Terry Pratchett One of the things that keeps me from Atheism (lord knows there are plenty of reasons provided by organized religions for me to disavow God) is the fact that we exist at all. Actually, that anything exists at all . . . The science of the Big Bang seems dependent on the idea that either a singularity exploded or that multiple universes collided and our universe was a result of that collision. Personally, I favor M Theory and the idea of the collision . . . But, no matter how you slice it, our universe is full of mass and energy (same thing - I know). And the unanswered question is really why we have any of that. Mass/energy cannot be created. It can only change forms. Yet, here it is. It had to come from an origin. Even M Theory depends upon something existing before our universe, such as the minimum of 2 previous universes. When Science can show how nothing became...