Had a little too much of human religion? Me too.

I went through this same phase, at one point I declared myself an atheist, mostly because it was an easy way to give the middle finger to my Catholic childhood indoctrination.

But then I decided to dig a little deeper, and there is more to it than thinking "god" is the same as "the Easter bunny".

Good luck trying to figure out why something exists and not nothing (and we're not talking about quantum particles popping into existence in a vacuum, those are "things" ... that's not nothing).

> Good luck trying to figure out why something exists and not nothing

I don’t see how assigning a (culturally loaded) label to an unprovable hypotheses could possibly be useful for figuring out anything objectively true.

Yeah, the universe is weird, still no god needed, because gods' existence is almost as weird as particles popping in and out.

Also, not particles, but fields, actually.

> Also, not particles, but fields, actually.

Why are there fields?

It's turtles all the way down, and it fundamentally comes down to "why something rather than nothing"?

Nothing has no potential to create anything because it's literally nothing. It can not have potential.

So where do these crazy forces, fields, the quantum observer effect come from, out of nothing?

We will never find an answer to that question because it is literally unanswerable.

>We will never find an answer to that question because it is literally unanswerable.

Then putting the "god" argument over the table seems either lazy or antropocentric.

The correct answer (as from today), it's "we don't know". You don't need to put any god, "energy" or whatever myth you know over ignorance.