Do we now think we know enough about the universe to rule out any kind of supernatural reality? Take the common sense view that 20th century cosmology has ousted all but the minutest possibility that God exists. Scientific opinion of the age of the universe could be influenced by whether there is a creator or not. If the earth is 4.5bn years old and God is necessarily older, then what has he been doing all this time?
Richard Dawkins says that everything starts from simple causes but what if the opposite is true?
Perhaps God did gedanken experiments, thought everything through before he even started and realised this particular kind of unive