Will an atheist please explain to me why the universe exist as it does?

Question

I am not talking about the theory of evoultion, big bang stuff.

Tell me how this came to be without the help of a creator.

Answer 1

Let me get this straight, you want me to explain my scientific beliefs to you without being scientific?

Listen, if you don't believe in Science. Fine. If you don't believe in parts of Science. Fine. But if you want to understand my beliefs, you're just going to have to know something about Science.

I don't believe in your Christ and Jehova, but I was good enough to look into them enough to know what I'm talking about and don't ask you to explain Christianity to me without talking about Christ.

If you're going to ask a Scientist where the Universe came from, you're just gonna have to deal with a Scientific answer. If you just want someone to validate whatever crap your parents vomited into your ear, go ask your preacher man.

You know? I could even answer this question, but you wouldn't believe anything I said anyway and it would be too big for you to grasp.

You just go right on thinking it was a big flash of good old fassion magic.

So, I've got it, now.

Why does the Universe exist the way it does?
Because it did not happen a different way.

Answer 2

Wow you want a full explanation without the bug bang that's sort of you trying to explain religion without God isn't it? Any way I will give it my thoughts and try to explain my belief. First most Christians think we believe everything came from nothing. That simply isn't true. We believe there was always something only in a different form. We believe there was something beginning with infinity like you believe there was a God beginning with infinity. We just fail to see the need for a God. We believe the universe is energy. The big bang is only a theory along with evolution. I hope that helps you understand one Atheist belief. You will find out many have it figured down into much finer detail than me. So now I will go back counting my monkey bones trying to find that missing link for you. Now where did I put that mans rib bone. xx

P.S. photograph... Thanks that's exactly the way I feel.

Answer 3

Why do you have to ask. You know they are going to answer:
There was a Big Bang in the beginning, and nothing become something, and something from that nothing become something else more advanced, complicated and better, until finally we came at the end of the line. If you don't believe it, just wait a few millions of years or billion of years, and you will see it with your own eyes.
The creationists or believers in God on the other hand said,

In the beginning God said: Let there be Light, and then "Bang", there was Light, Firmament, Land, Plants, Fishes, Birds, Animals on the Land and Man.

Both of those are theories, so it depends to yourself, which one is more acceptable to you, Nothing became the first something after a few billion years, or Super Intelligent Being called God, designed and created all in the beginning.

Here is a very respected man, who is not a Christian but definitely inspired by the same God who inspired the writers of the Bible, (LaoZi) said:

Something mysteriously already made, Existing (living) before heaven and earth in the silence and the void, Standing alone and unchanging, Ever present in constant (cyclic) motion. Perhaps He is the source of myriads of things, I do not know His name. Call Him Dao, For lack of a better word,
I call Him "the Almighty."
-- Gia FuFeng and Jane English, Translation of Lao Zi, Tao Te Ching (Toronto: Vintage Books, RandomHouse,Inc. 1989),Ch.25,p.255.

The word "Dao"(Tao) 道 in Chinese means "The Way", "Truth" "Teaching" "Word".

Here is how the Bible puts it:
John 1:1-3, 14

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made...
14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

6 For unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given;
And the government will be upon His shoulder.
And His name will be called
Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,
Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
7 Of the increase of His government and peace
There will beno end,
Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,
To order it and establish it with judgment and justice
From that time forward, even forever.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

Sorry, I am not an atheist now, but I was once an atheist.

Answer 4

Here two questions: (1) Why does the Universe exist at all? That is, why is there anything rather than nothing? (2) Why is the Universe as it is? Some dismiss these questions, thinking them idle. Some even think they make no sense. I believe they are both good questions. which could at least have partial answers. The Universe could have been, in countless ways, different. Even if its features were in no way special, it would be puzzling why, out of all possible Universes, this is the one that exists. This fact would seem arbitrary. Moreover, the Universe does seem to be special. For example, physicists now believe that if things had been very slightly different, in a whole range of ways, life would have been impossible. Can this be merely a coincidence? Theists answer No. On their view, God created the Universe with these special features. It would not be surprising that God should have wanted life to be possible. But we could still ask why, among the possible life-containing Universes, God chose this one to be actual. If this was the best possible Universe, or was at least very good, this question would be answered. But, to defend this answer, we would have to solve the problem of evil. If we could solve that problem, and could assume that God exists, question (2) would be answered. And question (1) might be less puzzling. This question would become, 'Why does God exist?' We partially explain some phenomenon if we show it be simpler, and less arbitrary. Compared with the existence of a highly complicated and specific Universe, God's existence may be claimed to have these features. There is a different view. Suppose that the observable Universe were only a fraction of reality. Suppose, most simply, that all possible Universes were actual. Question (2) would then disappear. If ours is the only actual universe, it makes sense to ask, 'Why is the Universe the way it is?,' since we are then asking, 'Out of all the possibilities, why is this the one that is actual?' But, if all possibilities were actual, there would be no such question. Nor could we sensibly ask, 'Why is our Universe the one it is?' That would be like asking 'Why are we who we are?', or 'Why is it now the time that it is?' And it would not be surprising that our universe was one of those where life is possible. Besides dissolving question (2), this 'many worlds' hypothesis would also make "The Universe question (1) less puzzling. If all possibilities were actual this would need less appears to be flawed. explanation than if only one was actual. But we could still ask, 'Why is anything actual? Why is there anything rather than nothing?' If things exist If these hypotheses would give partial answers to our questions, is this a reason to believe them? If so, how should we choose between them? And could we go becazlse they ozlght - beyond them? Is there an answer that leaves nothing unexplained? to, why are they not We could not cazlsally explain either why God exists, or why there is anything rather than nothing. There might perhaps be a causal law, as some physicists better than suggest, which allowed something to arise from nothing. But there could not be a causal explanation of why this law held. Could there be an explanation of some they are?" other kind? On one view, God necessarily exists. This could be claimed, instead, of the Universe. If such a view made sense, and was true, there would be nothing that was unexplained. If something necessarily exists, there is no conceivable alternative. But there are well-known objections to this kind of view. According to another view, God exists because he ozlght to: because it is good that he exists. As before, this could be claimed directly of the Universe. Since this view does not claim that either God or the Universe necessarily exists, it may escape the objections to that claim. If this view were true, there would still be something that was unexplained. We could still ask why this view was true: why things exist because they ought to. But there would be less to be explained. As an answer to the question, 'Why do things exist?', 'Because they ought to' would be better than 'For no reason.' Such a view once again raises the problem of evil. The Universe appears to be - - flawed. If things exist because they ought to, why are they not much better than they are? A partial answer might come from a variant of the many worlds hypothesis. Perhaps, in the wider scheme of things, every good Universe exists. It would then not be puzzling why things are not much better than they are. If all good possibilities are actual, things are on the whole, much better. They are better elsewhere. It might then be enough if there were no injustice in the way things are here. There may be no connection between goodness and reality. Things may exist, not because they ought to, but for some other reason. Or there may be no such reason. The Universe may be inexplicable. What are the implications of these views? Would God's existence, or non-existence, make a difference to morality? How should we react to the many worlds hypothesis? If the Universe was morally neutral, or inexplicable, how should this affect our attitudes to our own lives? What would we then have reason to care about, or do?

Answer 5

Explain to me first why every single religion explains how the world was created, how life came to be, and how we're supposed to act.

If you're not going to accept the big bang theory or other explanations, then no explanation will satisfy you in reality as it doesn't appear that you're really asking a question, but rather criticizing atheists for questioning what people of faith accept without question. Quite simply, there is no answer to your question that can be proven without any doubt as there is no one who witnessed it... and even if there were, that perspective could be doubted.

People believe what they want to believe - and there is your answer.

Answer 6

You make this question extremely impossible to answer, as there are no other signs other than those that you have specifically asked to remove from the variable; Therefore, you are asking for nothing.

That doesn't mean this Universe wasn't always here. But, it wasn't made by an invisible thing either. You can't give ultimatums and expect the next man or woman to answer it intelligently.

Answer 7

Yes, when you explain why god exists as it does. If you say that god has always existed, than I will say that the universe has always existed and no creator is necessary. My position is much stronger than yours because there is proof that the universe exists, there isn't even the tiniest bit of evidence however that any god(s) exist. I make very few assumptions based on evidence while you make many based on nothing but "faith".

Answer 8

I don't feel the need to fill everything I don't know with "goddidit". I'm perfectly happy knowing 2 things:

1) I have no clue how the universe came to existence

2) In a few thousand years archeologists will find our society and laugh their teeth out about all those people who claimed to know the 'truth'.

Answer 9

lol. Why do you think anyone actually has the answer to that question? Do you know all there is to know? I don't either. But just because we don't know doesn't automatically default to "created by a god". It means we don't know NOW. We don't know YET. That doesn't mean we won't know later.

The difference between Atheists and the religious is that an Atheist is willing to admit they don't know and actually try to search for an answer. An Atheist isn't afraid of not knowing. The religious are terrified of not knowing and aren't willing to admit they don't know.

Answer 10

Methinks you don't understand atheism at all.

Being an atheist does not give one infinite wisdom or knowledge as to how we came to be. It simply means that we don't believe that a greater being waved his magic wand and made it so.