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Joshua260 also claimed to be an expert in the field. He couldn't back that up.
That simply isn't true, and someone with a physics background would be expected to know that.
To my understanding, the definition of "the universe" you are using, which equates the universe with the totality of physical reality, is not the definition that physicists use. By "the universe," they are simply referring to our local spacetime, which is currently in a state of ever-accelerating expansion. Again, this is something that someone with a physics background would be expected to know.
Bear in mind that you are claiming the universe "came to be" in a qualitatively different way from how your Chevy Silverado "came to be." It seems you are equivocating on "came to be."
The question at hand - the origin of the universe - trespasses overtly on the territory of cosmology.
The only "minds" that I am aware of are an emergent property of a brain. Until the process of life began, and brains evolved, everything would be "mindless".
Are we talking about the same "God" that allegedly walked and talked in a garden that has no evidence of having existed, poofed people and animals into existence, and later, in a manner contrary to the modern understanding of genetics, populated the planet with a tiny group of individuals and animals that survived a global flood in an unbuildable boat, a flood that killed the dinosaurs in a manner that only *appears* to be 65 million years ago, because the Earth is really only somehow 6000 years old, yet remains, by every objective measure to date indistinguishable from nothing?
So we are talking about a "God" that allegedly walked and talked in a garden that has no evidence of having existed, poofed people and animals into existence, and later, in a manner contrary to the modern understanding of genetics, populated the planet with a tiny group of individuals and animals that survived a global flood in an unbuildable boat, a flood that killed the dinosaurs in a manner that only *appears* to be 65 million years ago, because the Earth is really only somehow 6000 years old, yet remains, by every objective measure to date indistinguishable from nothing?
