Hi, Faithful Servant. I hope you're enjoying the debating here.
Since we are getting deep into this here, I wanna pose a question to all those who want to debate what I'm saying here. What does science have to say about the law of cause and effect? From what I understand, nothing from nothing equals nothing. So, how could this universe come about without a cause? I've heard the big bang theory and all that, but it deviates from, rather than addresses the question. If, in the beginning,(there has to be a beginning because this universe contains energy that is slowly being depleted, eventually to nothing) there was NOTHING, where did ANYTHING come from?
This is off-topic for this thread (since the OP just concerns itself with human consciousness).
To help clarify a few things about Big Bang, though, here is
a post I wrote long ago about the real meaning of the phrase
Big Bang. That thread is closed now, so if you want to discuss this further you might want to carry the discussion to a related thread (which will be in
Cosmology forum), or you can try to start a new topic.
Actually, if their god makes better pancakes, I'm totally switching sides. --
Charley the Australopithecine