... a world equal to nothing is impossible

Do you see errors? — ucarr

So the Real World is an "evolving structure" that has existed forever, cycling but never beginning or ending. — Gnomon

Does that sound like a reasonable alternative to the current scientific evidence that space-time [false vacuum collapse] suddenly exploded from a mathematical point into a complex [spacetime]?

Does forever causation make the Hard Problem of human consciousness irrelevant?

"Religion is the opium of the masses" - Karl Marx.

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful," - Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC–AD 65).

Most ideas that come from Abrahamic religions start with an idea that supports the belief that God exists and then uses weak logic to support it. [ ... ] Since theism rests solely on smoke, mirrors, and blind faith for it to work, it can be be dismissed ... — dclements

[C]omplexities arise in steps from that simplex; the supposed 'God' is a complexity and thus cannot be First. — PoeticUniverse

'Idealism' is not ancient. — Wayfarer

The idealists collapse epistemology and ontology [what is known is equivalent to what there is], claiming there is no substantive distinction between the two, while the materialists maintain a substantive distinction [what is known is a fraction of, or exhausted by, what there is]. — Janus

And why do you too ignore the Planck energy density that came with the radius? — apokrisis

Do you think the universe is eternal & self-existent? — Gnomon

Or do you accept the Cosmological evidence indicating that Nature as-we-know-it had a sudden inexplicable beginning [planck radius]?

Are you now saying theism, instead of being invalid, presents as unintelligible nonsense?
— ucarr
No. Why do you ask?
— 180 Proof

Let me quote you:

God will not be completely understood.
— ucarr
X#÷^@WVH isn't "completely understood" either.
— 180 Proof — ucarr

When you propound your anti-theism, are you wont to say theistic texts are gibberish? — ucarr

I've heard your claim theism is empty. Voiding the claims of theism seeks to expose its logical errors, doesn't it?

Establishing the falsehood of a narrative requires a discernible meaning with a supporting argument with underlying premises.

Are you now saying theism, instead of being invalid, presents as unintelligible nonsense?

Summary

Every major religion offers mutually exclusive [non]explanations of the universe’s origin, purpose, and future.

Science, using observation, testing, and revision, provides a consistent and independently verifiable [testable] picture:

Universe: 13.8 billion years old

Earth: 4.54 billion years old

Life evolved gradually through natural processes

Consciousness arises from neurological activities, not supernatural souls.

Therefore, while religious faiths differ irreconcilably in beliefs, scientific cosmology and biology converge on a single evidence-based worldview - one that continues to expand through discovery rather than divine decree.

Hence, my worldview is scientific, secular and vegan. — Truth Seeker

What is your worldview?

How do you justify your worldview?

... and we [material sentients in/directly] observe that everything [materiality ~ "swirling atoms"] is active and changing. — Metaphysician Undercover

I’m skeptical of grand narratives and the tendency to claim certainty or authority in areas where we lack real [knowledge]. When I say I am a fan of uncertainty, I refer to being content to say, "I don't [or we can't] know". — Tom Storm

I like the brain-as-receiver model.
— AmadeusD

The fact that it is a standard symptom of schizophrenia ought give pause for thought. — apokrisis

That there is stuff is still no more than a brute fact. — Banno

God will not be completely understood. — ucarr

Why not nothing?

An alternative to feeling good, there is feeling at peace — T Clark

I’d put it this way: I’m not concerned with discovering some final or objective truth about reality. The idea that such a truth lies hidden, waiting to be uncovered, depends on a representational view of knowledge I find unconvincing. My position isn’t based on logic or simplicity, but on the sense that our ways of thinking and speaking are practical tools for getting by, not exact reflections of the world. Speculative metaphysics adds nothing to that. I simply go on treating the world and my experiences as real, because that’s the only way any of us can make sense of it and act within it. — Tom Storm

... a kind of cosmic rationale for the existence of life, rather than seeing it as a kind of fluke of biochemistry. — Wayfarer

Teleology is heresy for [irrelevant to] Materialists [antisupernaturalists], but may be unavoidable for Idealists — Gnomon

Yes, the only possibility for a return to universally shared life purpose is totalitarian. — Janus

Heart is core ... the essential, central part of being — Dogbert

Conclusion ∴ All belief is irrational. — Millard J Melnyk

Believing all belief is irrational, is irrational. — Banno

strictly philosophical.
— Wayfarer

If by strictly philosophical, you mean free to just make shit up, then of course guilty as charged now. I don’t take that intellectual liberty. The facts constrain me. — apokrisis

If trans gender is not a philosophical issue, nothing is. — Philosophim

[4] Insisting on an idea’s truth beyond the limits of its epistemic warrant is irrational.

Conclusion ∴ All belief is irrational. — Millard J Melnyk

the transcendent heart — Dogbert

Our metaphysical conclusions should be derived from, and not stray away from, the whole of the pre-reflective experience that linguistically mediated reflectivity is parasitic upon. Otherwise we land in a "hall of mirrors". — Janus

fully transcends existence — Dogbert

Thus, to avoid circularity, it is necessary to posit a transcendent ground of being.
— Dogbert

This is such poor thinking it beggars belief. — Banno

Imagine a mountain that is the tallest in the world. — Dogbert