Quote Originally Posted by Lither_1927 View Post
So just to be clear, you believe that you can create something from nothing? Now this *is* hillarious...
no, I never stated that.
there needs to have been some "thing" for there to have been a big bang - a massive concentration of energy.
once you have that I am very comfortable with the notion that increasing complexity can randomly form from this spontaneous release of energy, ultimately resulting in all matter, all life and even the ball point pen I am holding in my hand.
do I know what caused the big bang - of course not, possibly, an earlier universe collapsing in on itself, but that just kicks the can down the road, just not as far as you have to kick it to also invent a god powerful enough to create a whole universe yet petty enough to care about trivial details