Big-bang singularity and God?

Question

It's interesting that many atheists reject the idea of a divine creator / being who has existed forever, because this being must have been "created" at some point. At the same time, they are OK with matter having always existed, even if as a singularity prior to the Big Bang. Why the dichotomy?

For those who would answer that science is OK with the answer "we don't know yet", I would respond that the concepts of God and eternity are just as mysterious to us. Exactly what is God's nature? We don't know yet. But we have an idea.

I ask to understand, not to convert (well, not yet anyway...) Thanks!

Answer 1

What you say is extremely true!

If atheists were to support the assumption of the universe having come into being without any agent, then they are accepting one of two things: one, that it has always existed i.e. that it has no beginning; or two, that nothing produced something. Both of these statements are very difficult to swallow. The only way for them to justify their positions is to say, “We do not know the answer to that,” which is the same answer that religious people are always criticized for when they are asked something about God that they do not know. It is also no better than when believers say that God has no beginning or that prophets produced miracles; in fact, it is worse.

People seem to accept that if there was a God, He would be able to do anything; and yet, when they are told that God has no origin, their minds fill with unsettling doubts of how this could be true. They say, “Everything has to have a beginning!” The problem here is that many of them have a false conception of God as having human attributes. The question of God having a beginning is invalid. The very powers and qualities of God enable Him to do the impossible, to bend the rules of logic and physics. So if God can create something out of nothing – a concept which contradicts our rational view of how the world functions – is it so hard to believe that God has always existed? He is the only One without a beginning. It sounds unnatural, but it makes sense. It also gives the only logical – or most logical – explanation of how the universe began.

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Answer 2

Most atheists don't completely reject the idea of a divine creator. We just think the probability of a divine creator is very low. Furthermore, we think that the joint probability that there is a divine creator and the divine creator is Yahweh is much much lower still. I like to say that perhaps there is a divine creator, but if so, the Hebrew Bible is a red herring. If a divine creator exists, all the evidence is that the creator created the physical laws, initiated the big bang, and then withdrew, letting creation unfold through natural laws only.

But I haven't answered your direct question. The answer has to do with Occam's razor. We know that the universe exists. We don't know that a divine creator exists. It is simpler to assume that the universe has always existed than it is to assume that a vastly complex and mysterious divine creator also exists and created the universe.

Answer 3

I agree with you on this, Its amazing what some will believe, then reject something that is so realistic & makes sense.

I dont believe this World just happend to appear, or that The Big Bang Theory is true. That I came from a puddle of goo, Nah....
Or that the Monkey involved over time, and here we are. Then there would be monkeys still involving...eh?

I believe there is a God, He has always existed, He made this Earth and its beauty, that has us all dumb founded. He made we humans, after His own image, The Human body is marvelous, how could it have come from a simple theory. The World and living, work together, and thats how we live, and survive. There was a master mind behind all of this. A Being, A God!
We all know this deep down in our hearts, even those who make up theorys, Theorys just make us feel less guilty of what we do with our lives, unlike if we believe in God.

Answer 4

The fact is you already answered the question. We don't know yet.
But we will. Scientists are working on it. The most imoportant quest in cosmology and physics today is to resolve the conflicts between Relativity and quantum mechanics. Once a working theory connects the older two we will be able to understand events prior to the big bang and inside of black holes.

The questions simply go on forever. The good thing is you can believe in the big bang and still believe in god. Same with evolution. I don't understand where the conflict is.

Answer 5

I would argue that we do know God’s nature because Jesus demonstrated Christ to all who had no knowledge of God (that includes all humanly conceived thought). This is recorded in the New Testament. In Christ’s work, things appear, where before they did not exist, such as numerous healings. If Christ was in Jesus and he did these healings (a leap of faith now is needed), then we know that creation appeared on an as needed basis for and by God, and it was instantaneously accomplished and without effort.
On the other hand, if the bible is one big lie, then still we need an explanation for the existence of infinite matter, which is a contradiction within itself. How could there be infinite finite substance? Is the answer infinite Spirit?

Answer 6

Why do evolultionists make excellent factual discoveries, and then say "that proves that God does not exist."

Why do creationists believe only their preachers interpretation of how God created us.

Could God have created us by being more advanced than us and thus capable of using evolution to create things?

I believe both sides, in a way: God was from a planet that had evolved into everlasting life. God seeded this Earth 550 million years ago. God is a loving scientist who has the reconstruction formula for all of us.

And of course, the story goes on.

Answer 7

Even NASA aren't sure of the origin. It plausible the Big Bang theory is true, but God must have been the cause. God could not evolve from the singularity as he is far too complex. In the same way the universe could not create itself in all its complexity.

Answer 8

Good point; however there never was a 'big bang' ; that is just something that evolutionists deceived themselves into believing so they could try to eliminate God as Creator.

Answer 9

did you ask this question because I just asked 2 questions about God and the Big Bang Theory?....
well, all I know is God exists, we have more proof that God exists than the Big Bang occured.
I dont think i answered your question (if you really had one)

Answer 10

Do some "scientific" study of your own... go to church once a week at least, participate in activities, ask Jesus into your heart, pray.... and then tell me if you believe.... what do you have to loose?