I think we're discussing two entirely different things here. Yes, science is currently unable to explain why the big bang occurred, or what came before it. I never said that it did, and I'm not trying to use it as an explanation for that.
Let me emphasize one line in particular from my last post:
I agree that it's entirely possible that some unknown entity created the universe(s), and we're just a side effect of it, or are unimportant enough that they've never directly interacted with us. I think it's possible, and actually quite likely that we're within a simulation of another more advanced species, and our reality isn't actually real at all. I could be a brain in a jar. I could be part of the program running around someone else's brain in a jar. Those are all possible.
I still won't call myself agnostic however, because those hypotheses are irrelevant. They're unknowable, and so far beyond the scope of my reality that they will never affect my existence in any discernible way whatsoever. In a way, I can agree that atheism is small thinking, but it's meaningful thinking.
Let me emphasize one line in particular from my last post:
Based on our current understanding of reality, and our current understanding of all known religions, I can determine with a satisfactory (to me) level of certainty that no known religion is accurate. Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, etc in particular are not accurate. That's all I'm saying.
I agree that it's entirely possible that some unknown entity created the universe(s), and we're just a side effect of it, or are unimportant enough that they've never directly interacted with us. I think it's possible, and actually quite likely that we're within a simulation of another more advanced species, and our reality isn't actually real at all. I could be a brain in a jar. I could be part of the program running around someone else's brain in a jar. Those are all possible.
I still won't call myself agnostic however, because those hypotheses are irrelevant. They're unknowable, and so far beyond the scope of my reality that they will never affect my existence in any discernible way whatsoever. In a way, I can agree that atheism is small thinking, but it's meaningful thinking.
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