I know Dawkins will say it is the "God of gaps" (btw I loved his book), but the existence of the physical world - and our own existence - poses a huge question that cannot be answered.
Perhaps Dawkins is right, and that just because we don't know an answer, we shouldn't jump to a supernatural answer - and science may indeed one day explain it all - but until it does it bothers me.
Again I know that when people say that something must have started/created the whole evolutionary process - the question is; What started/created the creator?
Indeed - another question I can't answer - but that still leaves me with the feeling that there is an answer that is so unimaginably beyond our understanding and so far outside our knowledge it is futile trying to articulate it. Which is why I reject all religions, but cannot reject that there is 'something' that I can't explain.
Did all that make sense? lol
You made some huge assumptions there
Physics may answer your questions for you. I've replaced God with physics and it has provided far more answers than God ever could.
About the physical world, there is every chance that we may actually be virtual. The latest physics theories seem to be suggesting that we are just quantum fluctuations, the LHC will help us confirm whether this is true or not (when they make it work anyway
).
People ask how can come something come from nothing? Well it can, they're called virtual particles and they pop in and out of existence all the time. 'Nothingness' is unstable, giving rise to quantum fluctuations. In lab observations where they have studied extreme vacuums they have found it was teaming with activity at the subatomic levels with particles popping in and out of existence all the time. They caused real and predictable effects.
The start of life itself is slowly being answered. I started a thread in the Science and Reason section about the latest progresses being made. It sounds quite promising.
Don't underestimate human intelligence
We can understand quite a lot and if we don't we can sure as hell will try to!
I'd recommend reading this article -
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16095-its-confirmed-matter-is-merely-vacuum-fluctuations.htmlIgnore the title though, nothing has actually been confirmed yet. It's a great article though.
The biggest question in physics is what caused the physics constants and why they are so agreeable for the presence of life. One theory is a multi-verse but this has yet to be proven.
I hope I answered some of your questions there.
Topic: Are you happier after leaving Islam?