Gawen

Was developed by bronze age goat-herders...and propelled by early iron age goatherders...and then force-fed to the vast ignorant masses by dark and middle-age power hungry despots.
Your interpretation is not so unique.

leaglebob

When you get your best theory/answer will you "know" this as the truth, suspect it as the truth, or only the best answer currently postulated?

Is there any difference in the quality of proof between knowing an answer vs. believing in an answer? Should an answer be confirmable by third parties or is your own <knowledge/belief> sufficient?

What the hecks wrong with "not knowing?"

Gawen

Not a damn thing.

ZikZak

Can you explain why you "opt" for causation? It is an observed fact that causation is inoperable on small length or time scales. Particles are observed to be continuously created and annihilated without cause all the time, all around us. The theory of Quantum Mechanics describes these phenomena, and tells us that the apparent laws of causation at the macroscopic level are no more than statistical averages, albeit very peaked ones.

At the moment of the Big Bang, the universe was extremely small in size and evolving on extremely short timescales. Therefore I see no reason to apply the macroscopically averaged rules of causation to a fundamentally different, microscopic quantum phenomenon.