It seems there are a lot of atheists on here... so tell me, how was the universe created?

Question

Tell me how we got here and how the universe was created. We didn't just appear from nothing.

Answer 1

i would love to know that too. because im sure that there is a god

Answer 2

You said:
"We didn't just appear from nothing."

How do you know that? What proof do you have that backs that statement up? (and no, some lines in the bible are not "proof").

See, that's how "atheists" (and a lot of christians) work these things out, they look for PROOF. Evidence, repeatable experiments, actual reality. Not superstition and ancient myths with no basis in reality. Those might make good bedtime stories, but with no evidence behind them they are useless in finding real answers to questions such as "how was the universe created?"

Here's the only truthful answer: nobody knows for sure. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying.
There is a very good theory, called the Big Bang theory (with inflationary period immediately following) that looks like it's *probably* the way our universe came to be. What's different about this "theory" from your fairy-tale bible stories is that it makes specific predictions...that is, the theory says, "if the Big Bang theory is correct, then the 14-billion year old initial state of the universe just after integration (when light first began to shine) will still be visible as cosmic background radiation in the microwave range, and it should have a particular structure." That's a testable prediction. And guess what? We have found the cosmic background radiation, in the microwave range, and its structure matches the theory's prediction very precisely. It passed a test! There are literally *thousands* of other testable concepts, and somewhere around 90% of them have been tested and found to be in agreement with the theory. That gives us a high degree of confidence (but not absolute proof yet) that the theory is correct. These predictions and tests have been going for nearly 100 years now, and though a few minor tweaks have been made to the theory as new data is found, it's essentially held up to every test put at it.

So I can say, with a high degree of confidence and backed up by thousands of tests and their results, that: yes, we did just appear from nothing. A random fluctuation in the quantum vaccuum. And I can prove it :) Can you prove your "we didn't just appear from nothing" statement? Nope, you can't.

Answer 3

Where did god(s) come from?

You can't answer that one. If you do have an answer, what is your proof.

The story in the bible is sure not the answer. Heck which creation story in the bible do you want to use. Genesis 1:1-2:3 tells a different story than Genesis 2:4-25. Only one story can be right. If one is right, then the other is wrong. If there is a wrong story of creation in the bible, then that shows that it is possible for the bible to be wrong. If the bible can be wrong then how can you expect us to use the bible as a valid source of information.

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/accounts.html


The scientific evidence indicates that the creation story in the bible is completely wrong. Man and dinosaur never walked together. During the Cenozoic there were not even vertebrate animals. You expect us to ignore the evidence and believe the bible because of why? There are all sorts of problems with the creation story in the bible. God made day and night in genesis 1:5 yet he does not get around to making the sun until genesis 1:16. God may be capable of many things but the guy sure can't write a book.

http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/gen/1.html

Answer 4

Perhaps we did. Your concept of time means there had to be a beginning and an end but that is not necessarily so. Yes "our" universe was born but it may have been born out of something beyond our universe. The universe is not infinite therefore there could be more beyond it. It is impossible for us to understand everything in a universe so huge its size in incomprehensible. Just because we can't say with any certainty how or why the universe was made does not mean we should fabricate answers that make us feel better. There may be no reason why. Humanity will most likely never fully understand the origin of our universe. It is however more sensible to theorize about the origins of the universe based on observeable phenomena like supernovas which help us to see how fast the universe is expanding or black holes which help us understand the behavior of space and time in different contexts. This makes more sense than just saying, well, God created it.... yeah that sounds good, lets go with that. Read Stephen Hawking's brief history of time if you would like to understand this better.

Answer 5

Why do people keep asking that?

Why do you even care? Is it going to impact your life that much?

Now.. atheists don't say they know how the universe was created. They say they believe in science. And here's a shocker, science doesn't say it knows how the universe was created either.

The difference between Atheists and the Religious is that Atheists accept that they don't know instead of freaking out in fear.

And just another shocker for you.... humanity doesn't know everything there is to know and that there will ever BE to know, RIGHT NOW. We're still learning new things every single day.

What that means is that there's nothing saying we won't find out how it all came about later. Just that science doesn't know right now.

I suggest you learn to accept that you don't have all the answers. Atheists have learnt that already. They choose not to blame any god for what does or doesn't happen.

Answer 6

Hubble's law tells us that 14 billion years ago all the galaxies in the universe lay right on top of one another. All spatial matter was confined at that time to a single point. Then the point exploded, known as the Big Bang, which marked the beginning of the universe. But we can't imagine the universe as a flat piece of paper with a center and an edge, basically the universe was expanding. Afterward, galaxies began forming, including our own and eventually a sun and planets, asteroids, moons, comets, etc. Everything grew and expanded, including our sun, which will eventually expand and engulf all of us! That's how our astronomy teacher explains it, anyway.

Answer 7

Current understanding of the beginning of the visible universe is that the inflationary era began from a quantum fluctuation on the inflaton, which under heisenburg's indeterminancy principle "would have had to always exist" (quotes because it falls outside our timeline and behind the causal curtain of the inflationary wall). if the inflaton ever did not exist, its nonexistence would have been perfectly deterministic, a violation of the fundamental laws of quantum physics for all universes under the Einstein equations.

In short, the inflaton is eternal, the visible universe is so far finite and had a distinct beginning.

I hardly consider a few quantum fluctuations to be 'deific' but if you prefer 'God' to 'Inflaton' and to anthropomorphize what is essentially nothing but a quantum vacuum, I have no qualms with that.

Answer 8

STRING THEROY sweetheart.....which leads to the "M" theory, of which there are (mathematically) 11 dimensions. Thus you have billions upon billions of parallel universes. These parallel universes are like membranes. A collision of parallel universes caused the big bang, and hence our universe. Proven scientific Fact! look up string theroy or 'M' theory. (I am not an atheist)

Answer 9

I find this question puzzling.

Why do you think atheists claim to know how the universe came into existance? Because we reject "goddidit" doesn't mean therefore we know who did!

It's like...if you wake up one morning and there is $100 cash under your door. You call your mom and say "Did you do that?" "No," mom says. Do you then conclude "well GOD must have done it then!." Nooo. Not knowing HOW something came to be, doesn't mean that therefore "goddidit" must be the answer.

Answer 10

I don't know, but I do know that some rapist did not create the entire universe in 6 days.

The burden of proof is on god freaks. Atheists make no claims, we simply say your claims have no basis in logic, reason, or fact.

Answer 11

i'm not atheist but you should study quantum physics a bit, it may help to answer your question about the nature of the universe and god


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