A question for Atheists?

Question

Has the universe always existed? If yes... explain how you can KNOW this. If no... explain how it began.
If all else fails,try reading the Bible.God Bless.

Answer 1

Well said. Let us forget all and get HIS blessings.

Answer 2

Yes, the universe is synonomous with time. Time and space ARE the universe.

So, for as long as time has existed, the universe has existed. This goes back to the planck epoch (look up on wikipedia) at the immediate time the universe began at the big bang.

Since there was no time before the big bang, there is no "before" the big bang. Quite simply, the universe has always existed for all time, since there was not "time" when the universe didn't exist.

By analogy, what if I asked you how many points Kobe Bryant scored before the game started. The answer zero is wrong, since it implies that Kobe COULD have score before the game started. Of course, you can't score before the clock starts, so zero is not the right answer. The only right answer is "the game hasn't started yet".

That is how one should view the big bang. And the way we know this is math and observation. There are calcuations even you can do to prove that the universe is expanding and calculations that prove that the big bang began our observable universe. That is how I KNOW this. It is not conjecture, it is math. Like I said, anybody can double check the math to show it is right.

Don't take my word for it. All the data and math is out there for you to double-check it. I can't do the same with Genesis Chapter 1.

Have you asked yourself the same questions about God? If you simply claim that God is exempt from such questions, you are making a special pleading logical fallacy, which means you have no business attempting to have a rational conversation about this.

Answer 3

The Bible is a collection of poorly written primitive myths that were passed down orally from the desert tribesmen that first composed them. These men didn't know that the world was round or that it orbited the sun. They didn't even know that the Western Hemisphere existed. The Bible doesn't mention any of these facts. After some time, the Bible came to be written down, at which point it entered a lengthy period of revision to make it more coherent and to affirm the will of whatever authority commanded it be revised. What the Bible tells us about nature and the universe in general is almost completely in error. Quite simply the writers of the bible appeared to have little understanding about the world in which they lived. Science has not provided all the answers into the origin of the universe as of yet, but science has provided vastly more accurate information about most of reality than the Bible is capable.

Answer 4

Is the world and universe really only 8000 years old when they have calculated the distance of stars to be many millions of lightyears away which means we'd only be seeing them if they were millions of years old? Where do dinosaurs show up in the Bible? Or the Ice Age? Don't you think God might have told people, "Hey you might want to bundle up it's gonna get nippy"? I'm not saying the universe has always existed. The best model so far is The Big Bang. I suggest reading Stephen Hawking's book Brief History of Time. It's very informative and would provide you with an alternative theory. I'm not saying I want you to stop believing in Creation but what would it hurt to explore other ideas? At least then you would be better armed trying to dispute them.

Answer 5

Why, as a supposedly loving, caring, church-going person, can you not accept that other people may have wandered down the supposedly-wrong path? Are you that desperate to save me from Hell? Or, are you so insecure in your beliefs that when you see someone practicing a different faith, you become worried that maybe, just maybe, you could be wrong? I have no idea how the universe began. That's my point as an Atheist. I don't know if aliens came from ANOTHER universe to create ours, or if we're all living in one really sleepy guy's dream.

Personally, I don't believe in an "all-powerful" being watching over us. Why do you have such a problem with that? I have accepted the fact that if I'm wrong I'll go to hell. Besides, why is your God so vengeful that if any soul should take the wrong path, as I have so clearly done, should he choose to smite me and cause me to suffer? It seems very contrary to the light religious people often paint.

Is the whole point of religion to fear people into submission? Did your church leader tell you that you needed to go and Out the Atheists so that you could save us? Or, so that you could recruit more minions for your domination? It seems childish to come to a website intended for answers, and ask a question that you claim to know the answer to, just to taunt us or tease us.

Maybe you should take a leaf through the pages of your Bible, and decide for yourself if you're acting of your faith, or of your pride.

Answer 6

I imagine it probably has. But I'm not foolish enough to think that I KNOW this for a fact.

You see, only Christians think they KNOW everything. You're the ones claiming that your book contains the origin of the universe. Surely you can understand why we see your beliefs as foolish, then, right?

And btw... the bible is false. This is proven, and well documented. So regardless of what I or any scientist believes to be the origin of the universe, it is clear that your concept is completely wrong.

That leaves us with the ability to move along and figure out the truth, rather than cling to an old idea that is comical in its irrationality.

Hope that makes sense to you... maybe one day it will.

Answer 7

If you believe in the bible, you would think that the earth is only what, 6000 years old right? But how do you explain the grand canyon and all the fossils uncovered that are a hell of a lot older than 6000 years? But i can't compete with your blind faith in a book written less than 2000 years ago, that even today, no one can agree on. So go on blindly following the good book, and please, feel free to distort it any way you deem fit to prove your theory. Why must you believe so deeply that there is a celestial parent figure out there. Enjoy your life. Live your life, and do it for yourself, no one else.

Answer 8

No, the universe as we know it has not always existed.
The scientific theory holds that it was created through the big bang. This was a combination of protons and neutrons that accelerated and collided causing the disbursement of matter thus forming the planets and the universe as we know it.

Why do you think nations spend quadrillions of dollars building particle accelerators. Because this is a widely held belief that we hope to replicate on a smaller scale. No one KNOWS anything for sure. Have you seen God?

We put our faith in what we believe in. Just because I have faith in science does not make my faith better or worse than yours. I do believe in a force. Just not as a being who has the power to manipulate planets and promise eternal life.

Answer 9

I took 2 years of astrophysics in college. Everyone in the course will tell you that they have seen endless proof of the big bang.

It was the most challenging, mathmaticly complex course I've ever had. It's impossible to give a digest version of the big bang, but I know for a fact that it is real, I have seen the proof and done the math and double-checked the measurements myself.

It's a lot simpler just to accept God and the Bible, but simple minds tend to prefer simple answers.

Answer 10

If I consult my bible for questions of cosmology, I'd learn that the flat earth sits at a fixed point while the sun, moon and stars all rotate around it. Sorry, but this is WRONG.

Big bang thoery is the best available explanation for the origins of the universe. I suggest you learn something about it! Or do you really think the sun revolves around the earth every day?

Answer 11

Explain how you can know that God exists?

Time is a function of energy and matter. In a universe where neither exists, neither does time. So it is not possible to speak of a time before the Big Bang.