Interlocutor:
"Then who created the universe? An explosion lol?"
Seth:
"Which do we see more often, a god or an explosion?"
Interlocutor:
"Which is a better explanation for all contingent reality?"
Seth:
"An explosion. We can literally measure the history of the universe by reversing movement trajectories to calculate that a big bang explosion was the originating event that all energy is moving away from."
Interlocutor:
"Explosions are also contingent, so it fails as a satisfactory explanation. How can something contingent explain all of contingent reality?"
Seth:
"Explosions can be caused by prior explosions. Perhaps this implies an infinite regress. You can't escape an infinite regress with God or explosions. Our bias to not like infinite regresses seems like an irrational bias, since our minds are okay with infinity going forward. If infinity can go forward, what stops infinity from going backwards? Our bias highlights an internal contradiction in how we view the past as different from the future."
Interlocutor:
Our aversion to infinite regresses are based on logic. There must be an unmoved mover. You can’t escape the infinite regress with God? You’re going to need to explain that one.
Seth:
Because the idea of a God is just as contingent as the idea of a big bang. You can't just magically attribute God with no prior cause because you feel like it. If the big bang requires a prior cause then God requires a prior cause, hence infinite regress. If God gets a pass as magically having no prior cause, then the big bang also gets a pass for not needing a prior cause.