Age of the universe?

[Slimebeast]

Jay520 said:

Slimebeast said:

Soleron said:

As a physicist: We have absolutely no idea whatsoever.

All theories are pretty possible: that it has eternal existence and this is just the latest phase of an oscillation, that another universe spawned it, that there was nothing at all then a random quantum fluctuation created it. Why is infinite age impossible?

There's very few observations we can make from here that would confirm any of this.

However don't confuse this with their being room for the supernatural. Nothing we've ever observed shows any possibility of that.

Why not?

You claim that a few theories are "pretty possible" based on no evidence whatsoever, then rule out the most clever and logical one, a god.

"There was nothing at all, then a random quantum fluctuation created it." Come on! Gah, it pains me how ridicilous that "theory" is.

Please..First define what God is, describe its characteristics, and explain why such an entity is the most logical explanation for the cause of the universe.

God is extremely powerful and exists independent of time and space.

The existence of a material universe with a distinct beginning demands a cause outside of the universe itself. A powerful creator God satisfies this demand (and certainly much better than the ridicilous ad-hoc multiverse theory).