>>15721125>> how did the universe go from a state of nonexistence, to existence?It didn't and no one really says that.
That's the misunderstanding you're having, we OBSERVE. And we've OBSERVED a stopping point... the Big Bang... We don't know what happened or what existed or did exist before that because we don't have data. We are getting some now and there appear to be planes of matter crashing into each other that might spark big bangs and bubble matter structures.
>> where did the first matter, substance, atoms come from?Giant matter planes smashing into each other is as far back as we can guess. That's the point... there is so much more to it that chalking it up to one creator entity seems too simple.
>> how did the universe go from having no living organisms, to having living organisms?Time.
Why?
Necessity.
>> at what point did mathematics, logic, and universal laws come into existence? In other words, do they exist outside of human thought?Yes they do otherwise animals wouldn't exist. Animals prove to us, at least, that we aren't the sole living things here and that means we're not the sole experiencers of reality and the sole bearers of it's explanations. Animals can sense parts of reality we can't.
We simply don't have all the answers anon.
>> if they do exist outside of human thought, where did they come from and what makes them constant?They come from within us, thought is the necessary control mechanism of a biological organism. Thoughts are generated inside the organism. Thoughts can probably move outside the organism through electromagnetism but that's not proven yet.
