> I do not know where the ultimate grounding for my being rest. I know the
> physical origin of my being but that is as far as my observations run.
Gene: Fair enough, but I don't think you know from observational evidence
the
physical origin of your being.
My mother would disagree here.
Gene: Even Stephen Hawking, probably the best cosmologist of our time,
doesn't claim to know where everything came from pre-Big Bang and his
conclusions regarding the Big Band are only tenuously based on
observational evidence. There is much better evidence for many other
things in science.
Ah, not just my origin of being, but the origin of being itself ?
Nevertheless, science has made some predictions about what we should find
if life started with a big bang. And some of these predictions are quite
succesful. That we probably will never know what happened before the big
bang does not mean that we cannot use science to explain to our best
understanding what happened.