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<blockquote data-quote="Silvertongue" data-source="post: 22862589" data-attributes="member: 141391"><p>Hi Cris! First of all let me say, don't beat yourself up too badly. Just seeing you admit that you made a mistake already makes me respect you far more than some other posters I could mention. This board is here for people such as you and I to learn from. There is no shame in misspeaking, or making a mistake. Those are what we all learn from.<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite234" alt=":thumbsup:" title="Thumbs Up :thumbsup:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":thumbsup:" /></p><p></p><p>For me, personally, my answer to your question of "where did everything come from," and "how did everything begin" is simply "I don't know." Certainly there are people out there smarter than I'll ever be that are working on the issue, and I find it fascinating to read about, but honestly it doens't make that big a difference in my day-to-day affairs. It's certainly not so pressing a question that I feel the need to subscribe to some manner of religion to provide the answers.</p><p></p><p>Could all this have been the result of a deity, or deities? Sure, I'm not going to sit here and say that's an impossibility--but then again <u>anything</u> is possible. However, I do very much hold myself to the scientific principle of methodological naturalism, and as such I believe that most likely there is some sort of naturalistic explanation for everything. Also, as others have rightly pointed out, the failure to produce an answer at this point does not necessarily equate to there being a deity, it simply means we don't know.</p><p></p><p>Concerning the "endless cycle of questions" you mentioned, God is not immune from that either, as I'm sure you're most likely familiar with the old question of "well what created God then." I know the most popular answers are things like, "Well, God exists outside of time," and so on and so forth, but that strikes me as more "special pleading" than convincing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silvertongue, post: 22862589, member: 141391"] Hi Cris! First of all let me say, don't beat yourself up too badly. Just seeing you admit that you made a mistake already makes me respect you far more than some other posters I could mention. This board is here for people such as you and I to learn from. There is no shame in misspeaking, or making a mistake. Those are what we all learn from.:thumbsup: For me, personally, my answer to your question of "where did everything come from," and "how did everything begin" is simply "I don't know." Certainly there are people out there smarter than I'll ever be that are working on the issue, and I find it fascinating to read about, but honestly it doens't make that big a difference in my day-to-day affairs. It's certainly not so pressing a question that I feel the need to subscribe to some manner of religion to provide the answers. Could all this have been the result of a deity, or deities? Sure, I'm not going to sit here and say that's an impossibility--but then again [U]anything[/U] is possible. However, I do very much hold myself to the scientific principle of methodological naturalism, and as such I believe that most likely there is some sort of naturalistic explanation for everything. Also, as others have rightly pointed out, the failure to produce an answer at this point does not necessarily equate to there being a deity, it simply means we don't know. Concerning the "endless cycle of questions" you mentioned, God is not immune from that either, as I'm sure you're most likely familiar with the old question of "well what created God then." I know the most popular answers are things like, "Well, God exists outside of time," and so on and so forth, but that strikes me as more "special pleading" than convincing. [/QUOTE]
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