Contingent evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, July 02, 2014, 02:41 (3580 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: And you could be absolutely correct that the "something" is an eternal, conscious form of energy you call God. And folk like Higgs and Hawking could be absolutely correct that, for instance, "all the complicated structures that we see in the universe might be explained by the no boundary condition for the universe together with the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics" (Brief History of Time). I don't understand most of these theories, including how first cause energy can be eternally conscious etc., but I have sufficient respect for those who cling to their own favourite version (which just like David they all call "the best") not to dismiss those explanations that sound in any way feasible to me. I also continue to search for ways of reconciling the various beliefs, but have yet to find one that convinces me. That's why I remain agnostic!-This essay by Paul Davies is woth reading. He uses quantum theory and proposes the Universe popped up from a perturbation. An eternal timeless sort of nothing nothing but with quantum potentials of quantum energy before. Threfore something was always eternal:-http://boingboing.net/2014/05/20/what-came-before-the-big-bang.html