Of course it's opinion.
We don't know how the universe began but we do have enough ancillary evidence and examples that indicate that absolute nothingness produces nothing and a system so balanced, so relatively prefect, always evolving into positive outcomes of increased complexity does not do so without - and here I can't even find a word because it has no will, purpose, skin in the game, empathy, natural forces, mother nature, there is absolutely nothing and yet it does rather well developing a universe and all living creatures by the use of nothing. And don't want you to think I'm being a smart-ass, because if there is no thing we call God then all this just happened. I think that's illogical.
I'm not invoking anything. As for people of 2,000 years ago, I have the great advantage of the wonders of science at my disposal. I do not believe anything contrary to the revelations of science. Scientific proof always before religious opinion. So I am a little different from those folk. I don't invoke either God or the principle of Nothing as the creative, cohesive, constant.
There are 4 fundamental forces that bind this universe into a physical manifestation of pure energy. Might there not be a 5th force of Cause? Of Purpose? Of some all encompassing consciousness?
The, God of the gaps, is just another slogan used in the to and fro in the battle of understanding.
with increasing understanding the domain of this God is steadily shrinking, au contraire mon ami. Sure for the fundamentalist, but for the less constrained believer it is revealing God. Religion has nothing to fear from science and science will continue unabated to reveal the wonders of existence in ways that religion could only dream of. Every discovery of science is a jewel in the crown of humanity.
Let's stop being afraid of each other. I didn't mean anything by that. As has been pointed out I seem to be clumsy with words and fail often to express myself in ways that enable others can understand what I mean.
It's good that you disagree with me because I have little to do with people of a similar opinion as myself.
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