OK, that has nothing to do with the universe. By the way if we equal 2, and that's all the info we have, then I guess 2 is a constant and there is no equation. But don't look too deeply into that, because again we aren't 2 and your analogy doesn't make much sense.
Be it two or anything else, it's the same. As long as we've got only the result in our hands, the universe, we cannot know for sure. We might be able to only assume what was "before" our universe and its laws of physics.
You're assuming we can't know.
Indeed. Prove me wrong - I don't oppose searching
the answer if someone wants to do that, but I won't encourage them to do that.
You have it backwards. Inventions don't lead to knowledge, knowledge leads to inventions. So basically we're on the right track.
There is quite a lot of inventions made before they were understood. What I meant was new discoveries, after which they can be understood. Searching for something that doesn't exist but is hypothesised by the scientists might turn out to be stupid (imagine if Higgs' wasn't found, the theories would just have made people to seek for nothing).
Though, something other might have been found instead. That I mean by new random discoveries, they might surprise us and widen our knowledge.
I literally can't fathom how you could understand that answers to some questions can open up unbelievable possibilities, yet don't see answering how everything that is everything came to be.
Heh, we and the existence would be even more meaningless if we could just replicate it.
My only possible thought is that the concept of god creating everything is a concept so dear to you that you don't want to discover the reality of it. God, creator of the universe, is still one of the very, very few "grey areas" left in explaining how the world works. It's one of the last concepts to cling on to for those who believe we're only here because of God, and not one people seem in a hurry to let go as a result.
Nah, people still couldn't prove God false.
But now to think of it, how come the universe or the existence could have been created/came
from nothing, there must have been something it came from. And then again, we're at the beginning: how did that thing from which our universe/existence came from do that and
where did it come from? It looks like an infinite cycle for me, like some scientists have hypothesised.
Remember, matter/energy from nothing is physically an impossibility - unless it's some sort of immaterial illusion?
Even if the universe came from nothing, how the hell did it happen? Would we have to start researching nothingness to find out?
Doesn't this get pretty weird?
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So I'm supposed to get my morals from a book that advocates bashing babies' brains out? Riiiigghhttt.
Nope. What has morals to do with believing in God? Only fundamentalist Jews and fundamentalist Christians think they have to follow the Bible literally.
Although, the New Testament has some pretty good ethics. So is the main line in the Old Testament, although some of the punishments are a bit cruel and then there are those weird stories. They both have their ethics based on truth being the ultimate principle, after all.
Remember that the Old Testament was written around 2500-3000 years ago, and in the Israelites' society obedience was vital for their survival. It's a law book for a slightly nomadic people that was surrounded by other, hostile peoples.
Worst mistake people can do is to not understand the context something is written at. This applies to fundamentalists too, for example they keep whining about there not being under-age sexual relationships mentioned in the Bible and that way they try to moralise modern people. Sure, the Israelites became of age at 13 years at the time the Old Testament was written. Context matters.
The understanding that miracles could take place (breaking of the natural law) to name one and the get out card that he would not need to be limited to laws and rules he created for us to live under unless he so chose to limit himself but that itself is debatable in the Christian circle. Remember that a transcendent being isn't out in space somewhere fiddling his thumbs bound by these things but removed from such limitations.
