Originally Posted by mrdevious
So where's your evidence that god was the initial catylist for existence? Or are you just taking the easiest answer and accepting it because you can't think of a better one? The core problem of god is that people just fill him in where we don't have the answers yet. Can't explain it? then god must have done it!
There's another theory that I read in a quantum physics book, that suggests the problem of "something" coming out of "nothing" lies in the illusion that something and nothing are distinctly different things. All matter, when you break it down small enough, eventually ends up at subatomic particles that exist only as force fields, with no physical substance to them. It is theorized that these tiny areas of force are a piece of the fabric of reality itself.
You know how gravity is theorized to be a bending in space-time? Well how exactly can you "bend" nothingness? The answer, according to many or our most prominant and sucessfull scientific minds, is that such a bending is possible because gravity what lies between somethingness and nothingness. Matter and energy are, essentially, the compacted trillions of subatomic forcefields which are comprised of nothing but space-time itself. The rest of the universe, that which we call "nothing", is the areas of space-time which have not developed these little forcefields that collect together through gravitation. How these little forcefields arise in the first place I couldn't tell you, but Stephen Hawking had a great theory on how that would be possible with milisecond creation and obliteration of matter and anti-matter particles.
Is this theory correct? It's the best one we have so far, maybe it is and maybe it isn't. But as you can see, just because god is the only one you can think of doesn't make it the correct response be default.