You keep talking about the "uncaused cause". By definition the first cause does not require a cause. So no God necessary. It does not require a God because the very process of causality starts with the first cause. The first cause can spring from nothingness because it is conditione sine qua non for it to be the first cause that it does not require a cause. And the first cause can be God, but it doesen't need to be. Sure, you can choose to call the most basic of quantum fluctuations God - assuming that the most fundamental propert of existence is some very basic quantum fluctuation - if you want, but that would be something that has nothing in common with the conception of God as most religions conceive it. It wouldn't be self-aware, and it wouldn't have created the Universe to serve any purpose like most religions conceive of God. As for an infinite chain of causality, I have already addressed that. If there was no first cause, then there is no God because it is a pre-requisite for God being God that he is the first cause. If there is no first cause but there is a God, then this means that God simply lacks the fundamental attribute for being God since he must be responsible for Creation for him to be God. And don't try to correct me on the Big Bang. Matter did originate with the Big Bang. There was no matter before the Big Bang because there was no before. Matter was infinitely compressed at the moment the Big Bang happened, but it also came into being at that moment. Matter is the fundamental property of reality without which time doesen't exist. So matter came into being and then time started. Matter could not have originated "before" the Big Bang because there was no before since matter creates time itself that allows for a "before".
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your slowly coming along.
your displaying a lakc of understanding of the big bang theory however. what we know is that the universe is expanding outwards, based on the rate its expanding and what we know of its boundaries we use simple arithmetic to calculate that about 13.7 billion years ago the universe was in a state of extreme density and heat. at this time it started expanding, for whatever reaosn. there are theories as to why but they arent pertanent. what is pertanent is that we dont know if that dense, hot state of the universe just "appeared" out of nothing, or if it had existed for a period of time, or an eternity, before that.
there are two possible scenarios, infinite regression and an eternal universe. or a universe with a "starting point", a "first cause", or when it was
created.
science tells us that nothing happens for no reason. causality always applies. even when particles pop into existence out of no where, there was a cause.. a quantum fluctuation. we dont know yet what the cause of quantum fluctuations is. if there is one that we can decipher.
if there is indeed a "first cause", whatever that cause was, by defintion, has to be SUPERNATURAL, because it will be defying the law of causality. if there was a supernatural first cause, its quite obvious that cause was god. as to the nature of god, if god exists, we have no idea. and its possible no such god exists, but for that to be the case the universe and all of its potentialities have to be eternal.
