Do you believe in God?

[Frogberto]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Thus my assertion that the only firm belief I have is that SOMETHING created this place. No matter how sciency you get, no matter how far back you get, the question remains, "Well, where did that come from?" Even the Big Bang leaves the question of where exactly that dense ball of gasses came from. Even in the multiple bang theory (i.e., the universe alternately expands and contracts forever), there's still no source for all of that expanding and contracting matter/energy.

By, as Einstein and the theory of relativity shows, energy is always conserved. Either it forms as matter, or it's expressed as energy, but the total amount in the universe always remains the same -- it cannot by definition escape the universe.

So, if we truly have a cyclical universe, with an endless series of expansions and contractions, then you have no need for a creator, because there is nothing there to "create" -- the cycle would continue under the laws of physics backwards and forwards into infinity.