So what do you believe? How do you think the Universe came into existence?
To believe the Universe appeared from nothing takes greater faith than believing in Christianity.
I think that quote came from someone else. You may have grabbed from the wrong poster. It's not something I'd say.
I made no claim that the universe came from nothing. I made no claim of knowing how it came about or if it did; it may be cyclic, a part of a multiverse or something yet unknown. I don't pretend to know.
There is no empirical evidence for either a static or multiverse. Science requires empirical evidence. They are just science fiction in the minds of physicists who disbelieve in God.
There is empirical evidence for a single point of Creation of time and ALL matter.
Nobody has to believe in a multiverse or anything else. Science doesn't work like that. Multiverse, Branes, Cyclic Universe, etc, are proposals that need to be tested.
And yes, the evidence shows that the Universe began 13. 7 billion years or so ago....but that means in its present form. It is not known whether time began with the BB.
The universe could be cyclic, it could be a part of a multiverse....the point is: we don't know.
Then you live by faith. The faith that there is no God. The faith that science will explain the origin the universe and of physics itself.
The multiverse is not empirically testable. That is what makes it the perfect atheist fantasy. Branes are not an alternative explanation for the origin of the universe. There is positive evidence against a cyclic universe.
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And: we don't know, therefore God, is not a solution.
The correct answer is: we don't know.
You don't understand deductive reasoning.
Wrong, to believe without the support of evidence requires faith. Not knowing something is not a belief. It is a state of being: you don't know but you are willing to consider possibilities.
Faith is a conclusion, the assumption of knowledge, that God (whatever that is) in fact created the world....when no such thing is known.
