Roger Penrose claims our Universe has been through multiple Big Bangs
I know HN hates religion, but after being an atheist all my life, and graduating with a STEM degree (the &#x27;S&#x27; part) from a top tier institution, I&#x27;ve started in the last year or so to turn to the church (Roman Catholic) and theism, both to find answers to some of life&#x27;s mysteries, such as the origin of the Universe, and for personal reasons (I plan to start my initiation, starting with a baptism, within the next year or so) I have no evidence that God is real, yet I have faith in him. The idea that God created the universe is more satisfying to me than any scientific theory, and it isn&#x27;t incompatible with the simulation hypothesis, or the idea that the Universe was created by a higher-level construct.<p>Edit: To reply to a commenter below, since I&#x27;m &quot;posting too fast&quot; according to HN.<p>&gt; However, I fail to see how you settled on Catholicism to give you the answers you&#x27;re looking for. [...] And if not, why pick Catholicism over any other major religion?<p>Fair question. I come from a Roman Catholic cultural background, even though I wasn&#x27;t raised in a religious household, so the church is where I feel most at home.<p>&gt; Do you really believe all the stories in the bible actually happened?<p>No, I don&#x27;t. I regard the Bible more as a work of literature and a source of spiritual and personal inspiration than a history of events.<p>&gt; And if this God does exist and wants us to worship him, why doesn&#x27;t he make that more obvious, and why does he allow children to be raped and worshippers to be gunned down in his own Church?<p>My view is that God does not want us to worship him. God loves all his children regardless.<p>Evil exists in the world. It shouldn&#x27;t, and we should do our best to rid ourselves of it. I&#x27;ll have more answers when I go through my initiation.