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 … Astro physicists can explain how the Big Bang unfolded (even if some assumptions are being turned upside down) but not how something came out nothing.[/quote]

You took an otherwise intelligent post and ruined it with this first grade level rhetoric.

You dont know that time was infinite in both directions and you can’t even define nothing.

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Ok wise one - explain the Big Bang to me - how did something come out of nothing … what existed prior to the Big Bang?[/quote]

And I am familiar with credible scientific explanations for the process of what happened before the Big Bang but to me, it still not explain how something was created out of nothing … (Eg theory that Prior to the Big Bang, the universe underwent a cosmic expansion, doubling in size at least 80 times in a fraction of a second. This rapid inflation, fueled by a mysterious form of energy that permeated empty space itself, and left the universe desolate and cold.)

What was the mysterious form of energy?

I respect both science and religion as important for living well but genuinely cannot fathom how something came out of what we think of is nothing.

I also agree with scientist-philosophers who argue that random evolution cannot explain human consciousness, which is far more complex, creative and transcendent than a mind designed merely to help a physical body to survive in harsh physical environments.[/quote]

It’s funny to me how you point out that there are things we cannot explain and then go ahead and claim to be able to explain them.

That right there is the difference between a theist and a skeptic[/quote]

I am OK with certain levels of incertitude - gotcha games on the other hand, are rather tedious .

And I feel comfortable exercising different intellectual tools for different types of knowledge - some which require more skeptical critical thinking and others which require ontological lived experiences and common sense. None of us have a monopoly on truth.

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Facts and evidence are not “gotcha games”.  You don’t think they are about any other topic I bet.[/quote]

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