General Discussion

In the great faith versus science debate, we have zero facts to support faith, but we may have only a 1% understanding of the universe from a scientific standpoint, so I don't see either side of that argument (if there is an argument) having a strong position. I don't start from a position of actively involved gods. But there is so much we don't yet understand about the universe, I don't think anything can be ruled out.

For example, science has established with strong evidence that there was a "big bang" and many decades of measurements seem to confirm that was about 14 billion Earth-years ago. For a long time, the prevailing thinking was that eventually the universe would stop expanding, and would eventually shrink back to a single point, and who knows what would happen after that?

But then, in 1933, the idea of "dark matter" was proposed. It was not until the 1970s that real measurements provided scientific evidence that dark matter exists. But even today, we can't measure it directly and prevailing thinking is that the invisible matter is actually much greater that the matter visible to us. That supported the theory that the universe would eventually collapse.

Until ... in 1998, "dark energy" was discovered, giving support to the ever-expanding universe theory. But the same mathematics that enabled those findings also predict MULTIPLE universes. etc etc etc.

What I am getting at is, one could regard the physics of our universe(s) to be a form of "god". So nobody really knows about any of this for sure, and we are nowhere near a scientific certainty about the future of the universe. So we all just try to get through life understanding things the best way we can. I think an active "eye on the sparrow" god is quite unlikely, but I can't tell you how the universe was created and how the laws of physics came to be. Did a "god" decide all that?