I don't understand the mathematics of cosmology completely. [View all]

[MineralMan]

"Therefore, God created the Universe."

What a simplistic, foolish statement that would be, if I were to make it.

Incredibly few people fully understand the math that is being used to investigate the moment the universe began, much less what was around before that. There are a few people who are using such math to discover those secrets. I am not one of those people. My brain does not work with that sort of mathematics.

However, I do not automatically attribute the beginnings of our universe to some invisible, all-powerful, entity that somehow created the thing magically and without causation. Why would I do that? Where did that deity stand when it created the universe? It's a ridiculous solution for my inability to process the mathematics of cosmology. I would not substitute an irrational explanation for something people are actively investigating, using math I don't understand fully.

Just because I don't understand something does not mean that there is a supernatural explanation for it. That is a leap way too far. Instead, my tendency is to watch to see what those who do understand that math have to say about it in terms I do understand. Year after year, their explanations get closer to that moment in space/time. I can understand what the mathematics conclude, even if I can't follow them to that conclusion.

I also know that if someone makes an error in that abstruse world of mathematics, someone else will be quick to point that out, because that is the path to the Nobel Prize in Physics or Mathematics. That esoteric world is highly competitive, it seems. So, recognition of past errors leads to new discoveries, again and again. It's a challenge for those few who can comprehend the math.

But, to attribute such things to some supernatural deity that cannot even be described? C'est pour rire!

God did it is not an answer. It is an excuse for failing to understand. I don't accept excuses.