Do you agree with my theory of the Big Bang?

Question

My theory of the Big Bang is this. For the Big Bang to actually have happened, there would have HAD to have been some sort of Energy behind it's happening correct? There absolutely had to be. My theory is that God was the energy behind that. I don't believe that the universe just appeared and all the planets were created on their own. What do you think about this?

Occums.... that's the best explanation of why God was around before the Big Bang... to JT... just sorry to hear that MY God is better than yours haha!

Answer 1

You're actually close to what a lot of people believe. God as the force behind science, the arbiter and upholder of the rules of science, makes a great deal of sense to me. So your theory is as sound as any.

And I have to address something here. My apologies in advance for a bit of a soapbox stand. The question of 'what came before God?' which I saw here a few times is disingenuous. The very question snidely pre-supposes something -did-.

For most people, myself included, God exists outside the scope of the universe, and is not bound by its precepts. To suggest that something within the universe pre-dates something which exists outside its scope is akin to suggesting that you read a book before the author wrote it.

And please don't say, "where did the author come from"? The author did not come from the book. If you were a character living in that book, your paradigm is the features of that book as written by the author. Nothing, then, pre-dates its own author. And, absent being able to see things from God's frame of reference, a question about God becomes an almost unanswerable academic study.

How would the characters of a book know the mind or existence of the author? They may reflect that mind, and as such, gain some insights, but even so the understanding being derived in such a way is likely to be flawed. An author, may, however, insert himself into his own tale at any time to deliver ideas, thoughts, etc...

Answer 2

If you are thinking in terms of causality, saying that something must have caused the big bang (ie. God), then why did you stop at that point and not question what created God. Indeed you cannot create matter out of nothing, and the Big Bang is the initial event that marked the creation of the universe. However, our understanding of the universe is still confined in the concept that time is linear, and that it goes in one direction. What if I tell you that the universe eventually collapse and the next Big Bang happens, creating a new universe with the energy from the existing one, for an infinite number of cycles. There is no begining and there is no end. You can't visualize that because it doesn't make sense with respect to our daily experience with the world, time, for everyone, can only go forward, not backward. Another way to think of this is, time is something we conceptualized to explain the phenomenon of cause & effect. Because one thing happen after another doesn't always imply a dependency between the two events. If we remove time out of the equation, then causality doesn't hold anymore, and a lot of problems can be solved. Well, needless to say, time is a different beast beyond our daily life, so all I can say is, our understanding of the universe is incomplete so the question of "what caused Big Bang" is still up for interpretation.

Answer 3

Well the Big did happen. The problem is present day physics breaks down at the point of the singularity. This question is a giant hurdle for science and stumbles into philosophy. The most exciting theory that I have read about is M theory. It is were there is two membranes that flow next to each other and when they touched it created the big bang (a universe). That is a simplfied answer to what the science community is working really hard on. And whether or not God was behind that, I don't see why not thats left up to your faith.

Answer 4

I think you don't understand what the Big Bang theory actually says. That's OK, not many people are able to actually do the mathematics of general relativity. But, if you happen to disagree with that position, what theory do you offer in replacement? You postulate some Energy before the Big Bang. Does the existence of this energy allow you to predict anything that the big Bang theory doesn't? Something we can actually go out and measure, either with telescopes or some other device? Or is it really just some vague notion that you have that you have really not thought through in detail? And since you want to identify this Energy with God, does this mean that God was used up by the Big Bang? If yes, I suspect many religious people will disagree with your identification. If not, where is it now? Is it observable? What dynamics controlled this Energy and how was it 'behind' the Big Bang? How does the existence of this energy affect the abundance of Helium in our universe? How does it affect the developement of galaxies? Specifics!

Answer 5

The theory doesn't say it happened out of nothing. It does however state that all other events that happened before the big bang are irrelevant. I say, however, this theory is quite plausible, but that doesn't mean that it really happened. I therefore don't 'believe' as in give all the support, but I do say it's an interesting theory. I, nonetheless, do believe that it was god that created the universe, but how he did it, I don't know. I will say, however, that I strongly oppose the idea of the big crunch, but that's just my opinion.

Answer 6

I'm in total agreement with how this article explains it ...

The Awesome Universe—Where Did It Come From? :
... What the Big Bang Explains - What It Doesn't
... So Mysterious, yet So Beautiful
... 'Something is Missing' - What?
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1996/1/22/awesome_universe.htm

"Make Sure of All things; Hold Fast to what is Fine!" (1Th5:21)

Answer 7

mass has gravitional pull and inturn gains more mass and the more mass there is the heaver the becomes and this contues till the mass is so great that the mass creates heat due to compression of all that weight eventuly the heat has to go somewhere and the mass explodes, this takes an enifiat amout of time as the rate of groath will depend on the amout of matter that is avable within the masses gravitional field. This is how they think the universe was formed. remember this is only a theory at this time.so whats wrong with it eather you have an open mind to all things or youare simply a foller of what you are told. which are you??

Answer 8

HI
THats a good question. Lot of people though dont agree with the big bang theory....

The energy you were talkin about... i personally think that every thing has a scientific explanation. Even god can be understood through science not imitated or chalanged... I absolutly agree with you if you think god to be the ultimate cosciousness...

Answer 9

That is exactly what I have thought for years!

My theory was that it just looked like the big bang because it all happened so fast. But that it was God that was behind it.

Answer 10

No. I don't agree with your theory. If there was some energy behind the Bing Bang, I wouldn't think it was god. Scientists explain it quite well. You coould check out some books at the library to find out.

Answer 11

I think...then where did God come from? If you say God came from nothing (or was always there), then so could the energy for the Big Bang. Can't have it both ways.