huckelberry wrote:Dr W, I can see things in common with what I see and Deist ideas except I see no reason to think God is out of here. I do not think he has to fix or repair daily.
I choose the words mass and energy just as a simple reference. Yes laws of physics or spacetime and fields would also be appropriate.
I found it curious that you choose a few seconds after the singularity. That would reference the physics we are able to know. That which is the basic ,is just because it is, would have to be before that. (whether another laws of another physics or that mind of God which is of course utterly beyond our understanding.)
I chose a few seconds after the singularity because by then the universe (this universe) was well into the physics we do understand at a practical, operational level.
What physics still needs to do to extend understanding to, and beyond, the singularity, as I am sure you are aware, is to figure out how relativity and quantum mechanics (quantum field theory) can be merged to understand (for lack of a better term) quantum gravity. This would finally yield a Theory of Everything, or very close to it.
Progress in this area has been slow. However, postulating a goddidit mechanism for what we do not know yet is not helpful in the least.
With the detection in the 21st century of both the Higgs boson (proving the existence of the Higgs field, further supporting the standard model) and gravitational waves (further solidifying general relativity), a good foundation for progress has been laid and we are moving forward.
The possibility of combining the two leading hypotheses (string theory and loop quantum gravity) as to a Theory of Everything is being discussed. Loop quantum gravity would see to be the best approach, but the point is that progress is being made.
You might be surprised at the number of contributors there are, and have been, both scientifically and philosophically, over millennia, to this endeavor.
You mentioned upthread your belief in "space", or gaps, for God. I mention the above simply to point out that the gaps into which God can fit are shrinking, and rapidly so. They are now on the order of 10 exp - 33 meters, and soon to close completely.
Upthread you also stated:
huckelberry wrote:Trying to replace a natural explanation with a supernatural one would obviously be silly.
And on that we certainly agree.