How did it all begin? Science can not conceptualize what happened before the big bang and believers can not conceptualize what happened before God?
2006-12-11 15:15:30 · 18 answers · asked by Nilo 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
But really, who cares when/where it all started?
2006-12-11 15:21:07 · answer #1 · answered by lee m 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Science cannot conceptualize what happened before the big bang? Why not?
The big bang describes how the matter which comprises the universe spread out and began expanding. It does not explain how the matter came into the existence.
Going by this, the law of conservation of mass and energy, and the principal that something cannot come from nothing, I'd say that it is a perfectly logical and scientific position that the matter which comprises the universe has always existed, albeit not necessarily in the form that it's in today.
2006-12-11 23:40:42 · answer #2 · answered by Evil Atheist Cannibal 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've thought the same thing for a long time. Your absolutely right, why do Christians and all religious people find it so easy to believe that God always has been and always will be but not that the universe always has been and always will be. There is plain evidence of the universe, we live in it, but there is no solid proof of God. I too want to know what happened before God
2006-12-11 23:22:40 · answer #3 · answered by maxworth 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, but you don’t have to believe in the big bang just because you don't believe in god.
The big bang has some holes:
The mathematic principles of general relativity begin to break down as things get smaller.
String theory attempts to explain, but it has it's holes too.
Yup, it's safe to say that none of us know how it happened.
2006-12-11 23:23:16 · answer #4 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scientists can't answer as to what the big bang "banged" out of because that would lead to Intelligent Design, and Heaven forfend, science and theology don't mix (actually, whatever science can prove, only affirms God's existence)! Christians believe that God, the Truine God, was in perfect, eternal fellowship. Who have you been talking to?
2006-12-11 23:24:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
What if the universe is "infinitely old" and has always been around. That the big bang is just the most recent expansion of a never ending cycle of expansion and contraction. Or what if our universe is a bubble in an ocean of bubbles. Or what if we are inside a closed electron, in a much larger universe we can never see. And inside our universe, every electron is filled with stars, planets, people and electrons. Never-ending in both directions.
2006-12-11 23:21:50 · answer #6 · answered by skunkgrease 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
But the correct answer right now is "no-one knows what happened at the exact moment of the creation of the universe". Atheists and agnostics have an easier time admitting that than Christians.
2006-12-11 23:18:37 · answer #7 · answered by . 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
It does not matter.Have faith.hope,charity.Be happy.I really believe we do not have to reach out to god because hir is within.Try the GAMBLERS argument for the existence of god, then read RAM DASS , and BE HERE NOW .
2006-12-11 23:24:51 · answer #8 · answered by hotshoes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with lee m and wilma m, it really doesn't matter. And there are some things about God and life that we cannot fathom. I choose not to let that stop me from believing and growing spiritually.
2006-12-11 23:35:51 · answer #9 · answered by Kathie Emmanuelite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the why and science is the how. You can not use God to explain a scientific fact just as you can not use science to explain a spiritual fact.
2006-12-11 23:23:10 · answer #10 · answered by nurse curtis 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Right
2006-12-11 23:21:56 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋