Put religieon aside. Lets think at a logical level. Even if there was a big bang, where did all the matter that was part of this phenomenon come from. The matter that started the universe just didn't appear, did it?
Something had to "start" the universe. Even if you place the start of the universe on one photon, or atom or whatever. That particle had to either be designed and constructed or did it appear from nothing.
I am not saying that because we don't know the answer, proves that there is a supreme being but what alternative answers are there?
Once again you bring up some interesting and very valid points.
Here is the problem, our "HUMAN" brains that have developed on planet EARTH.
Let's start with your question about Matter appearing out of nowhere.
Whether it was Matter or some Intelligence that began everything using Matter our brain has the SAME trouble in actually understanding it. It's all about the simple question of, "Which came first, the fully Mature Chicken or the Egg that the embryo formed in?" Our brains cannot answer that question with any certainty.
With this in mind, let's say for a minute that some Intelligence did create everything. How did it come to be? Everything that our brain has been exposed to on this planet tells us that things are made up of other things and did not just appear from nothing. Technically, each and every one of us actually began as whatever FOOD our parents ate and then converted it into the molecular structures needed in order for their reproductive systems to function. So, in all actuality each and every one of us on Earth came from a beam of Sunlight when you completely break it down to it's originating source in our solar system.
Our minds cannot fathom the "concept" of eternity as it applies to time or space. Everything in our experience is finite. It does have a beginning and and an eventual end. Our lifespan is the first and best example.
Our minds have been programmed with everything having some kind of containment or boundary. Our blood is contained within veins and arteries. If they were to rupture it would spill out into our body cavity but still be contained. If our skin then was ruptured then it would flow out on to the floor and if we are inside a building it is contained in there. If we were outside it would be contained within the atmosphere of earth. If we were out in open space above our stratosphere it would be free to float through space. What contains space? Our minds cannot fathom the concept of space being forever or never ending. We can say that Space goes on forever and leave it at that, but it is an incomplete thought to our minds based what they have been programmed by here on Earth.
The same holds true for Time. Our days turn into nights so each one ends and then begins again, but they do end. By having different days to mark the beginning and ending of these cycles they do have endings. Same as the weeks, months, years, and on into millenniums and beyond. We even speak of our sun dieing some day which would end time as we here on earth know it. So all that our brains know has an end as well a type of beginning.
If were to ever advance to where we could travel to the end of space, what would surround it? Then what would surround that? Could it really be infinite? Or if we traveled far enough would we just end up back where we began?
I think you see the magnitude of the problem we have. These questions being posed to our brain and expecting an answer anytime soon would be like trying to use an Abacus to map out the Human Gnome. LOL!!
While I'm on this, and this was to also be a thread to include conspiracy theories, what are anyone's thoughts about the Powers that be keeping factual proof of Extra Terrestrial life away from the general populous? Also for those of the God mindset, which religion should not matter, would the presence of other life forms outside of Earth be a problem?
Sincerely,
MT