Fanman wrote: ↑October 31st, 2020, 2:50 am... I believe that natural occurrences caused existence - what else could it be? I don't know if the BBT is right, because it encounters problems like infinite regression, but I think it is likely something along those lines, as redshift implies that the universe is expanding.
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Two things (one of which will keep this from going completely off topic).
First, I don't see a problem with an infinite regression with the Big Bang Theory. If the universe collapses back again, with everything crashing together again, making a new big bang, and this happening over and over infinitely, that seems unproblematic to me. That there was always something, going back infinitely in time, seems less problematic than to say that there was a beginning of the universe, before which there was nothing. Because in that case, we have the universe coming from nothing.
The second thing is (and this keeps us from going completely off topic), if one does not know how the universe came to be as it is now, that does not imply that God did it. Saying "God did it" is a pseudo-explanation, something that takes the place of an explanation, but does not really explain anything. Primitive people regarded a rainbow as a sign from god, which some regarded as an explanation, but it does not explain how god did it; it does not explain how it came to be or what it is. It only answers the question of
who did it, and does not explain how it came to be at all. It is kind of like someone asking how this stone arch was made:
And someone replies that it was made by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. That tells us who did it, but it does not answer the question that was asked, of how it was made.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence." - David Hume