My Creator

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Ahhh, star dust? but do you know why star dust exists? 
Nuclear fusion. 
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And why does nuclear fusion occur?
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The core of a star is an intense environment. The pressures are enormous, and the temperatures can be greater than 15 million Kelvin. But this is the kind of conditions you need for nuclear fusion to take place. Once these conditions are reached in the core of a star, nuclear fusion converts hydrogen atoms into helium atoms through a multi-stage process.
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@Paul
I don't know about the purpose part, but yes when stairs explode they make the atoms that make people and dirt and all the other stuff in the universe.
We are stair stuff.
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Is preaching allowed here?
100% YES.
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When stairs explode...Use the lift.
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Thanks....Though I was aware of the basics.

I was really making the point, that in order for something to go bang, then there must be something to go bang. ( Not a direct reference to big bang theory).

What fuels a creation event?

And more importantly, who or what provides the fuel.

Though if something provides the fuel, then what provides the provider....Same old insurmountable conundrum.
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Thanks....Though I was aware of the basics.

I was really making the point, that in order for something to go bang, then there must be something to go bang. ( Not a direct reference to big bang theory).

What fuels a creation event?

And more importantly, who or what provides the fuel.

Though if something provides the fuel, then what provides the provider....Same old insurmountable conundrum.
If you are looking to follow the rabbit hole further than human epistemology will go I'm perfectly comfortable if not entirely satisfied with the answer I don't know when it is the intellectually honest answer.
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Well. Epistemology is as epistemology does, but if you mean the limits of human knowledge, then we continually explore the rabbit hole further.  Science (in the literal sense) allows us to extend the limits of knowledge....So we haven't gone there yet.... So maybe we will or maybe we will not.....Nonetheless, stopping and not going any further isn't human nature.

Perhaps looking forwards will eventually bring us back to the beginning.
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I don't have much hope of solving the mystery of why there is stuff rather than no stuff.