What was that something? Why not a being doing magic that exists outside of time and space, as absurd as it sounds.
Why not? you ask.
Well, sure, but why?
"God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so." - William of Conches, c. 1150 A.D.
As to why not, I would point out that typically, when we
do find out the reason for something, the reason turns out not to be miraculous. Indeed, I have
never witnessed any event of which the cause, when discovered, turned out to be supernatural. On this empirical basis, we must take the existence of a naturalistic explanation for as yet unexplained phenomena to be the default assumption until positive evidence is shown to the contrary.
"Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. But if they called everything divine which they do not understand, there would be no end of divine things." - Hippocrates, 4th century B.C.
I mean...
quote:
Something must have produced an excess of matter over anti-matter, because this excess exists.
does not convince me either.
Why not? I merely observe that
something must have caused it to be the case, because it
is in fact the case.
Do you deny that there is, in fact, an excess of matter over antimatter, or do you deny that this fact does indeed have a cause?