| | So, in assuming that this universe was created by something, it must be assumed that that something is outside of it's creation to one degree or another. Our entire universe is built on the fabrics of space-time, however most people (including the vast majority of the founders of quantum physcis) understand the concept of god as being formed by spirit, or that which is outside of space-time.
Furthermore, the entire world of science is built on impersonal foundations, and rightly so, as the mechanics of the physical world are only available to be studied from an impersonal perspective, that being mainly of mathematics. The study of a ball being dropped from my hand, in the world of physics and science, is totally removed from the personality responsible for the ball dropping. And science is the same, the study of the physical world is totally removed from any personality that could possibly be responsible for putting it in motion. This is a fundamental restriction of science. And just as science, just as the study of the physical world, is totally unable to prove the personality that dropped the ball, so to is science totally unable to prove the existance of the personality that set the entire universe into motion. Science only deals with the 'what', it explains what happened, but can never touch on the 'why', or the other more personal details of existance, such as the emotional, the self, and the beautiful.
Because of this, I think it is incredibly wishful thinking to assume that science will ever be able to find out what created us. And even without this limitation of science to the realm of the impersonal, you still have the fact that this appparent creation occured no less then 5 billion years ago, and as long as a possible 15 billion years ago. All that science can work with, in terms of the formation of the universe, is what we have in front of us. And the data required to find a workable theory on the creation of the universe has been subject to 15 billion years. As a result, our only tools for theorising rest in mathematics, which themselves are subject to the impersonalisation of the world. And even with mathematics we suffer the inability to fully conceptualise the fabric of the universe. String theory, which is fitting our observations better and better, rests on the existence of 9 or more dimensions, depending on which equations you want to use, and what you want your results to be. And quantum mechanics presents us with different equations we can use depending on what we want our results to appear like, and all the eventuating results, though contradicatory, appear to correspond with reality.
And so science is very limited, it is limited to studying the shadows on the walls of a cave, and it is subject to it's own reductionism, being reduced to an impersonal study of the physical world, and nothing else. And just like with quantum physics, where your desired coutcomes seem to effect what you can find, so to is it with the search for 'god', where a search for the impersonal finds the impersonal, and a search for the personal finds the personal, and to some the search within oneself for 'god' leads to the assumption that they ARE 'god'.
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