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Quote by: Simonius  If the Panthiests are correct the universe is God, God is the universe. He therefore came into being with the big bang, was the big bang. Scientists feel no need to explain how that started, so a panthiest can happily dodge the question! |
That's just not true. Scientists would very much like to explain how the universe came to be. The problem is that science doesn't currently have to tools, and may never have the tools, to examine anything within a Planck time of the origin. However, that doesn't mean that scientists don't try. Many have proposed some sort of quantum fluctuation similar to those that have been observed in empty space. Hawking introduced imaginary time into his singularity calculations which enabled him to run the universe backwards past the big bang. The trouble is that he found an identical universe on the other side.
There is also the matter that you seem confused about science, methodological naturalism and pantheism (I mean even more so than in spelling). There is no logical connection between science and pantheism.