Too far, bro.

Thank you. Even if you don't believe, you have decency to let me be in my own faith

He believes he's alive, though. Let him be.

Thing is, there's a point where you can't go further back, and that point is the Big Bang (and everything already existed even then). He described it as trying to go further south than the South Pole. I don't recall if Hawking was necessarily arguing against the existence of God, I don't know what his beliefs regarding that were anyway. What I do remember is that he was asked what was there before the Big Bang, which prompted him to talk about this.

I feel like everything (except God) has some sort of beginning, and if you go back far enough you could achieve pure nothingness.

So he uses the argument to argue against the existence of God? And how? Just curious

That's what Stephen Hawking argues, actually. As I understood it, there was never nothing.

How could absolutely nothing form something? 🤔

Maybe I’m wrong but you can probably agree that there was a certain point where there was absolutely nothing. Like nothing. How could that nothing create something without some sort of intervention?

I can respect that. I don't like faith because I like as much certainty as I can get. But you stay true to yourself, that's great.

you can believe what you believe, I will believe in my faith, even though I cannot prove to anyone God exists, that is why it is called faith. If it was known for certain, He would just be a fact, not belief.

Oh, well, there you go. Glad I could teach you something.

"god of the gaps" I didn't know this concept had a name

There's a name for what?

dang there's a name for that

Another thing: It's really not known what caused the Big Bang. It's okay to acknowledge that we do not know certain things. Otherwise it's God of the gaps fallacy.

What, not who. Something, not someone. I don't know why people are so dead set on attributing a mind to things that don't have it. To understand my point of view you can refer to Stephen Hawking on what was "before" the start of the universe. I'm pretty sure he talked about it in an interview.

then, in your opinion, what started the universe? Anything in motion does need something to start it

Wrong question.

why do you not believe?