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Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet
I guess the thing is not a thing that we can currently thunk?
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Goddidit, of course.
You know the big bang theory does not attempt to describe the initial conditions or first cause of the universe, right? It is intended merely to describe the development of the universe from its extremely dense and hot early stages into its present form. Don't think of it as a localized explosion from which all matter moves away, but as an expansion of space itself. An observer at any point in the universe sees the same thing: a homogenous distribution of matter everywhere, with the more and more distant parts receding faster and faster.
Of course one explanation is that a multiverse existed before everything. The problem with the god hypothesis is that it calls into question who created the creator, a paradox that continues
ad infinitum.