Moose, that's the point of religion, to answer the unanswerable. But there may be a time when there is no question left. What if that Russian telescope tells the whole story of the origin of the universe? You're talking like it's common sense that God exists, you're saying that it's SIMPLE, and obvious, "Why is it so hard to imagine something that always was just". I find it hard Moose, you're excepting an answer that doesn't tell you everything, or really anything. It says "God did it".
I just completely dislike the "God did it" stuff, oh who cares, you're not just suddenly going to say "Oh Warren, you've convinced me, scientism is the way to go!". That's not going to happen, but I just think that being religious closes off all the questions of the universe. It's like reading a mystery book, religion just skips to the end to see who did it, but doesn't know what the end is, so it just makes it's own ending. Scientism reads the book (very slowly though...), and eventually will get to the end. Just because we're not nearing the end yet, you say it's it's basically pointless to read the book, and just believe the madeup ending.
Moose, you're basically saying that God created the universe and matter, that when I find out the origin of matter and the universe, that it will be God. You are convinced that this is true, that you can't even imagine life without God. Now imagine what would you think if you found out that God doesn't exist (hypothetically). What would you say? Would you be pissed? Would you be curious about how the universe really came to be? If I died and found out that God does exist, I'd be pissed. But he would say "Ha ha ha, oh Warren, you're probably pissed that I exist, but don't worry, your faith in my creation [of nature, matter, and the universe] has gotten you into Heaven". And I would say "Sweet, Moose is such a sucker".
