why??

[lastlid]

A very good question and I simply don't know.

I'm sure that there is no "interventionlist" god, who has any affect or influence on us. However, there are plenty of unasnswered questions, especially concerning what happened before the big bang. Our physics and mathematics break down at that point, so it's difficult to know anything about that time (although strictly, "time" didn't exist then)!

However, it is possible that some form of "higher intelligence" was at work. It's difficult to conceive that the universe is here as a billions to one chance occurrence.

I've read plenty of books on this sort of thing. One of the best was "6 numbers" by Martin Rees. It explains how 6 physical constants (eg, the speed of light, the charge of an electron) have caused us and the universe to exist. If any of these numbers were just fractionally different, nothing would exist. How were the values of these numbers set?

That was what Imagine was saying, a few posts back. That must be the book he was referring to....

[imagine]

That was what Imagine was saying, a few posts back. That must be the book he was referring to....

not the same book but sounds very similar ,

i done a google search to try find the author, i couldnt believe just how many books videos etc with the same title, so i failed to find, but maybe my dementia will give me a break at some point