Reply #31: What makes you so sure there was a first cause?

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I know we are finite creatures, we begin and we end, but that doesn't mean that everything else in the universe is finite. There could be forces out there that have always existed and will always exist, we just aren't able to measure them yet. Even that collection of forces which you may call "God" could be observable and explainable one day, through the scientific method, once our technology and knowledge has advanced enough.

How many times has religion tried to explain something that science is eventually able to explain better? Volcanic eruptions, eclipses, natural disasters, you name it -- not acts of God after all, but just acts of nature. What makes you so sure that whatever attributes you assign to "God" won't be some day explainable as just part of nature, assuming they aren't already?