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What caused the Universe?

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By a group of unnamed men telling stories.
 
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Based on the available evidence? We don't know.

From a theological position of ultimate cosmic origins? Christians confess that God is the creator of all things "both seen and unseen" and thus the very existence of anything is attributed to the creative act of God.

I'm not suggesting a God-of-the-gaps here, that "We don't know, therefore God"; but rather that the answer to the question can be two things: 1. the scientific answer, which is at present "we don't know" and 2. the theological confession, which is that God is the maker of all things. And should 1 ever have an answer it is not in opposition to 2, nor does 2 necessarily give an answer to 1--the places of science and theology are different.

-CryptoLutheran
 
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