Big Bang...Where did it come from?

Question

For argument sake,lets just say a Big Bang was used to set everything in motion.While I see a lot of non-believers saying they dont believe,they wont believe, and evan if they had "proof" they still wouldnt believe

I've heard people say the universe came from all the original materials; but where did the materials come from?

If you say the Big Bang, then you need to answer where,what, and/or who started the very first bang!?Becuase if you follow this logic then there were no materials around until the bang actually happened. So please tell me how you explain this without God in the picture?

Answer 1

Well if you look at the Big Bang from an Atheistic prospective, in the beginning there was nothing, and then nothing went bang.

I believe that "In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth", and He did this about 6,000 years ago.

Scientist are coming up with more and more evidence that the Big Bang couldn't possibly have happened. There is just too much scientific evidence against. In a big bang, all the planets and stars in the Universe would be equally dispersed, not clumped in galaxies the way we see them. And because of a law called the Law of Angular Momentum, all the planets and moons in our galaxy would be spinning in the same direction, but that's not the case. And because of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, if the universe was infinitely old, everything by now would be one temperature. Let me give you an example. You walk into a room and see a cup of coffee on the table. I say be careful, the coffee is real hot. You ask me whose coffee is it, and I say I don't know, it's been there for 400 years. You may be laughing, because you know that's not possible, but it's the same with stars, eventually they cool off.

I believe the Bible, God created the Heavens and the Earth, and spread everything out with His hand.

Answer 2

Those who don't recognize God as the Creator look solely to science for answers. Unfortunately, the only possible alternative to God is eternal matter, which someone just pointed out. But that concept is as fundamentally unscientific as you can get. The very basis of science is causality. Science works because of the absolute acceptance of the fact that nothing happens without a cause, and nothing material exists without an origin. When a new disease appears, do scientists get together and first discuss whether or not it has a cause? Of course not! Since it exists, it must have a cause - that is a given - and research immediately begins to identify the cause, not to determine if there is one.

The solar system exists, so scientists offer theories as to how it came into existence from pre-existing matter. Such a question falls well within the purview of science. Likewise we know that new species of living things have come into existence ever since life first appeared on earth, so science offers theories as to how that may have occurred, again drawing upon the fact of pre-existing matter and energy.

However, if one continues to mentally move back through time, eventually one must come to the plain fact that atoms and energy exist, as do space and time, and therefore these, from a purely scientific perspective, must have had an origin. What is different about this question however is that there is absolutely nothing within the realm of science that could have preceded these and therefore acted as their cause. Science by definition is the study of the natural universe. Since nothing in the natural universe could have been the cause of the universe (nothing can be its own cause), the only logical, though not scientific, explanation is that something outside the purview of science must have been the cause of the universe. Therefore something outside of the natural universe. Therefore something supernatural.

Answer 3

The scientific theory is that the Universe started as a fluctuation of the vacuum. Such vacuum fluctuations make appear a small amount of energy, for a small time. This phenomenon is responsible for the existence of forces, that hold the Universe and matter together.

Normally the bigger the energy fluctuation, the smaller the time it is in existence.

Not so the Big Bang. That was a HUGE fluctuation. So big that a lot of energy came to appearance in the form of mass, elementary particles. These particles started expanding, before the vacuum could reclaim the energy.

And it is still expanding today. 14 billion years later.

Answer 4

This is covered in the first year courses in quantum physics. but that is all just math. Thermodynamics can also paint a picture of an eternal universe that allows for big bang phenomena to occur at random but statistically predictable intervals. All of these creation myths are in play as well as brane theory. The advantage over God Did It theory is that they leave it open for more questions and explorations that result in answers to other problems. God did it kind of leaves you at a dead end about 4,000 years ago.
The big bang theory is not the only theory and some problems have come up with it mathematically, this has led to newer theories. But even the most primitive of these is much more useful than the Idea created by a bunch of cave dwellers that it all had to be made by a big guy in the sky or dug up by a magical frog or bird.
And Ted (above top)is making a lot of very serious mistakes in his presentation of scientific theory. Errors both in interpretation and fact.

Answer 5

Easy.

The existence of "nothing" is unstable. As a result, forms of matter and antimatter go in and out of existence and represent various states of an energy field.

Answer 6

Now, before anyone rips into me, please understand that I am playing devil's advocate.

Well, if there is no God to set everything in motion, perhaps all materials in the universe existed always--in other words, they were always there (if God always existed, could it be that everything else always existed, too?). One day, it all just collapsed under its pressure and BAM!