Atheist- You dont believe in God, so do you believe in the big bang theory?

Question

Im asking out of curiousity. I am agnostic and am just trying to understand religion better.

Answer 1

Yes, I do. There is ample evidence of a primal explosion, including the background radiation and red shift of stars.

There is no evidence of any gods.

Answer 2

I'm a believer in the big bang theory, I don't believe in god but I believe in a higher plain of existence. Atheists don't necessarily hate god or disbelieve, they just choose no to let religion rule their lives, and live their lives by their own regard, not from a book. I think science based religions have a strong belief in the beginning of the universe - The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that scattered space matter in all directions.
In 1927, a Belgian priest was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of an atom. Years later, this other guy, Edwin Hubble found experimental evidence to help justify the priests theory.
So initially, it was a priest who discovered all this!
The big bang was initially suggested because it explains why distant galaxies are traveling away from us at great speeds.

Although the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved; consequentially, leaving a number of tough, unanswered questions.

Does anyone have another proven theory of how the universe started? If not, that's what I'm sticking with.

Hope this was of some help.

Answer 3

A lot of creationist also believe the big bang. They believe that science just unravels the process by which God created. Regardless, the state of affairs that precluded the big bang still needs an explanation. It was either created, or it always existed. Since time cannot have always existed since time implies a beginning, many believe the cosmos isn't eternal. That doesn't necessitate God, but it does beg for an explanation and science ends at the point of the big bang. Even many scientists refer to the big bang as the "miracle birth".

Answer 4

Yes, in general, I believe in the big bang. What exactly that means is subject to change as we come to understand the universe better and better. I believe that there probably was some kind of singularity event roughly (what?) 14.5 billion years ago at which point the universe that we currently observed came into being. What there was before that, or besides that, I don't know - in fact I have no idea.

Certainly the notion of a big bang event accounts for the known facts quite well. The young Earth creationist account fails miserably at the task of accounting for the facts (e.g., the motion of cosmological objects, the background radiation), and of course fails the basic test of being an explanation at all. It also fails the test of accounting for the known terrestrial facts. It's dead in the water: young Earth creationism is known to be false. As an explanation, it's about as good as "Paul S sneezed the universe into existence last Friday night".

Answer 5

Hi Brandie,
I am not an atheist, I believe in both creation and the big bang, but I think proponents of both of these theories have some of the details wrong.

First of all, time is an illusion, so while the big bang is real, it is happens now, not billions of years in the past. Everything that we consider to be past, present or future exists simutaneously, right now. We pick and choose from all the possibilites and weave our choices together in a linear story that presents us with an illusion of time. Each moment of now is created instantly on the spot by what we choose to make it. Your choices make a slightly different world than do mine. We appear to share the same world due to consensus reality which is a process in which our spirits work together to manifest what we want to expereince. Unfortunately, we aren't usually aware that we are responsible for creating what we experience, consequently we often do a poor job of it due to lack of training.

Cheers!

Answer 6

Atheists do not necessarily follow science. Many atheists believe in things that are irrational. Raelians think that we were created by aliens for example and do not believe in evolution.

For me, it's not a question of belief. I try to hold as few beliefs as possible. Instead I have the theory of the big bang and I try to disprove it. So far, there is more and more supporting evidence for it and none against. Until evidence is found to refute it, I will hold the big bang theory as true.

Answer 7

Some do... some don't. Atheism means only a lack of belief in a god or gods. More than that is up to each individual.

I do believe in the Big Bang theory.

What are you? An agnostic theist or agnostic atheist?

Answer 8

I believe neither in a religious or or scientific creation to the universe. I believe it just exists, as it always has and always will. Sure, everything from planets to galaxies are ruled by cycles, but I can't believe that the everything was, at one time, never there and won't be again. The scale of it all strikes me as absurd.

Humans try to rationalize what we don't understand. If we can't attribute it to a greater holy power, we come up with ludicrous theories that are taught as fact until they are proved wrong and the word theory is shouted to undo the carelessness of teaching theory as fact.

Answer 9

I am an atheist, but I don't like the Big Bang Theory. I just don't get how all matter in the universe came to be condensed it a single point and I don't get how that matter was caused to explode to spread out. Also, if all the matter in the universe was in one single point how could there have been room for the matter to expand?

And no, God is not an adequate answer to my questions.

Answer 10

If atheists do not have a god belief, then the only thing we all have in common is that we do not believe that a God or gods created the universe.

Some atheists think the universe has always been here. Raëlians, who are atheistic creationists, believe the universe has always been here, and that life on Earth was created by an extra-terrestrial species. They are just one small group, though.

Most of us who even wonder about these things accept the scientific findings that show that life evolved on Earth, and accept the Big Bang model, wherein the universe came to be when a "singularity" formed spontaneously escaped into a vacuum. Particle physicist Victor J. Stenger explained how this could have happened naturally, without any supernatural intervention, in our interview with him.

Many of us, though, don't even care how the universe formed or how life came to be. We are much more interested in the health and welfare of our children and the political and economic stability of our home countries and all the other day-to-day concerns that are common to almost all humans. Many of us are fascinated by what science currently has to say about these things, but most of us are more interested in seeing science work on curing disease and making equipment that is more energy efficient and things of that If atheists do not have a god belief, then the only thing we all have in common is that we do not believe that a God or gods created the universe.

Some atheists think the universe has always been here. Raëlians, who are atheistic creationists, believe the universe has always been here, and that life on Earth was created by an extra-terrestrial species. They are just one small group, though.

Most of us who even wonder about these things accept the scientific findings that show that life evolved on Earth, and accept the Big Bang model, wherein the universe came to be when a "singularity" formed spontaneously escaped into a vacuum. Particle physicist Victor J. Stenger explained how this could have happened naturally, without any supernatural intervention, in our interview with him.

Many of us, though, don't even care how the universe formed or how life came to be. We are much more interested in the health and welfare of our children and the political and economic stability of our home countries and all the other day-to-day concerns that are common to almost all humans. Many of us are fascinated by what science currently has to say about these things, but most of us are more interested in seeing science work on curing disease and making equipment that is more energy efficient and things of that nature. Most of us would much rather go to a ball game or see a film or hear a rock and roll show than attend a lecture on the latest developments in the Inflationary Big Bang Theory. And if we had to choose, most of us would opt for research that might some day cure sickle cell anemia over research that might eventually explain our origins. We don't have to make this choice, and can afford to support both forms of research, but if we reached the point where one or the other had to go, most of us would probably opt for curing disease over discovering our origins.

Answer 11

Well I'm not atheist, but I think they do. But then you wonder what caused the big bang, or what was there before it...

but you could go the same way with any other theory, let's say, Creationism. Like, if everything ws created by god, what created God?

so many questions...sorry, I am feeling philosophical.