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The God of the gaps argument for God fails when a plausible scientific account for a gap in current knowledge can be given. I do not dispute that the exact nature of the origin of the universe remains a gap in scientific knowledge. But I deny that we are bereft of any conceivable way to account for that origin scientifically.Victor J. Stenger
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If everything must have a cause, of course, this also applies to God; if God can exist in isolation, then why not the universe?Etienne Vermeersch
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It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.Julian Huxley
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String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.Edward Witten
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Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.John Archibald Wheeler