@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:
I don't think we know what made the big bang happen, nor if there was something before it, nor even if it means anything to speak of before the big bang...
They know much more than they did a century ago. There may be some things so complicated that people cannot figure them out. That doesn't mean that the answer is magic, which, I understand you are not implying.
Olivier5 wrote:
Evolution theory explains how life evolved after it appeared but not how it appeared in the first place. And the phenomenon of consciousness remains a complete mystery.
Not really. After hundreds of millions of years of random chemical combinations in the Earth's oceans, finally a chemical was randomly produced that made copies of itself. This would be a chemical much, much simpler than DNA. Sometimes when a unit copied itself, it made an error, which once in a blue moon was actually an improvement. This started evolution. Over billions of years, the descendants of the first chemical unit assumed greater functionality and also greater complexity. Sometimes this meant the ability to make decisions based on circumstances. When the computing power reached a certain level, it became possible for the units to be aware of their own existence, which is what we mean by consciousness.
Well, not very. Need something with the BBQ
