If unknowns are the bread and butter of science what does that tell you? Does that not support what I said? They hypothesis and then track these unknowns down relentlessly to determine the veracity of the hypothesis. Troubled, is just a word I used, what about, intrigued, the allure of the unknown, the eternal quest of WHY?
Brahman is the First Cause which sets all else in motion and Brahman is also that which is in motion so as to guide creation along its designated path of purpose and will to specific outcomes. The cyclic nature of Hindu Cosmology does not negate First Cause and the eternal sate of Cause, or infinite Creation.
I know what you said about matter and energy but you don't know that and neither do I. Was matter as we define it today before this universe began? And energy kind of does nothing in a human context unless it is focused upon an outcome. We don't have to concern ourselves with alternative outcomes because this is the only one there is.
Maybe we should remove this discussion away from religion altogether. God is not well represented by religion. Religion is not essential at all to the debate that we are having. I do not believe in the God of the major religions. I do not believe in religious dogma. I believe in science and will choose science over a religious belief, if they are in conflict, every time.
The explanations for cause are subtle, but they exist, the more science understands I believe they will draw this conclusion and the better off we will all be, re the more we will understand.
Science will never penetrate the dimensions of the subject of this discussion, how a universe came about, how life came about, how human sentience / consciousness so profoundly transcends the rest of the animal kingdom, the fact that every representation of humanity in every age believes in God, gods, a human spiritual component, the fact that death exists, etc.
The hypothesis of First Cause impedes nothing. First Cause is a bit like Intelligent Design, at its core it means nothing. If God exists and not the God of religion, I do believe that a force of Purpose and Will does exist, I think it is the rails upon which evolution runs, then Creation is eternal and First Cause is nonsense, but we all love a good bumper sticker.
