Do you think that God could have created the big bang?

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Is God your area of speciality, professor?

This about all I need to know about God,

You realize that's just Douglas Adams talking.

Don't forget the rest of that quote:

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that white is black and promptly gets himself killed in the next zebra crossing.

God is the Universe.

God is the universe, but He also created the universe. He is in, through, and behind all things. God is truly infinite.

He, she, it. I agree that the Universe is polyfurcating and self replicating.

Both science and religion fall short of what God must actually be.

If you limit everything to having cause and effect then by infinite regression something must have caused god to exist as well, so God is just part of the chain. God suddenly appearing with no cause is just as inexplicable as the Universe suddenly appearing with no cause. Then if things don't have to be cause and effect (whatever that means), it doesn't matter because the unvierse doesn't need a cause. If you look at the cause and effect from another angle you see what I mean. Do time backwards: (reverse all the charges and spins on all particles as well to make it scientifically viable apparently - that way chemistry works properly) and you have an equally valid universe but with a sudden stop x billion years in the future which seems a bit odd. Something caused it to end, but once it has ended itself (perfect cancellation?) nobody worries about what it causes because it doesn't cause anything. So when time goes forward it is just as wierd, and thinking the same way leads to the effect (beginning of universe) not being caused by anything.

Otherwise, whether or not it could ever be scientifically investigated, if the universe is part of a larger system, which in turn is part of a larger system, which in turn... ad infinitum, with no beginning and no end no matter which way you measure it, then there is no longer the problem of things not causing or being caused. Everything has a reason and a consequence, but go in any direction of that argument and you never get to an end hence no need for god.

One theory I heard of is that antiparticles are particles travelling backwards in time (which explains the charge reverse etc. and also why when they come together they dissapear - the electron just decided to go change time direction and carry on away from the collision; in our perspective becoming a "seperate" antielectron heading towards the collision.). When you think about it, the entire universe could just be one particle going around in some motion in spacetime, occasionally swapping from forwards-time to backwards-time and repeatedly coming back to meet itself; it has looped through our "time" infinite times making up every particle in the universe. So if you look at spacetime, the entire universe is just a really long string (motion-path of this one particle) - sounds wierd, but this string has no end or beginning, no one can have created it because that would contradict it's infinite length. Similarly no-one can have destroyed it. This is just to illustrate my point.

Personally, I think, no matter what kind of universe you've got (with a sense of time the same as ours); so long as it doesn't end up repeating itself then it seems obvious that eventually any object you define within it will come to an end, but by an extension of this logic, every object that isn't in it will come to a beginning. Why? Because the "state of an object existing" and the "state of an object not-existing" are both unstable states of this universe. So maybe all existence is like this: something can last for a long time but eventually it ends, "nothing" can also last for a long time, but eventually that ends as well.

Nah, it's just my favorite book of comedy. I use the word glorious to describe everything from tacos to a local meth-addict blowing off his tricep when he decided to scratch his arm with the front sight of a rifle.