Which statement is rational or scientific. An intelligent being caused the Universe or A mindless nothingness?

Answer 1

Neither one.

First, you loaded your question by using the word "causes". You are presupposing that the Universe was "caused" by anything. In other words, you are trying to stack the deck to get a certain answer ... you're trying to eliminate "nothingness" as an answer because a "nothingness" cannot "cause" anything. Nice try.

Second, the question of "intelligent" vs. "mindless" is irrelevant as far as causes. "Mindless" causes are commonplace. Gravity causes things to fall ... and this explanation does not require any "intelligence" as part of the explanation.

Third, an arbitrarily complex "intelligent being" is not an explanation of anything. An explanation needs to describe complex things in terms of something simpler. To say there is some "intelligent being" that is so intelligent it can create the entire Universe, then that "intelligent being" must be more complex than the Universe. So you've just explained something complex in terms of something even *more* complex. That fails as an explanation (scientific or not) of anything.

Fourth, "a nothingness" is a nonsense phrase.

Fifth, no scientist believes the point of science is to prove the existence of "a mindless nothingness", or prove the absence of an all-powerful "intelligent being." This is an irrelevant question to scientists. Their job is to find the best *testable* explanation they can based on the current evidence.

In short, neither of your statements is an explanation of anything, much less a *testable* explanation. So neither statement is rational or scientific.

Answer 2

The mindless nothingness is the rational and scientific statement, the intelligent being makes some people feel better.

Answer 3

Neither is rational. Intelligent being is not because it raises the question of where/who/what that intelligent being is. Nothingness is not because we are not yet capable of understanding how nothing can create something/everything.

Intelligent being is not scientific because it cannot be proved or disproved. Like life after death. Or, like existence of heaven and hell.

Nothingness is scientific because the only theory everyone accepts is Big Bang and it appears to have started from nothing.

Answer 4

Just to be sure, are you asking if the intelligent being created the universe or if that being created mindless nothingness. Or are you asking how was the universe created?

In any case, the universe as we know it was created by an intelligent God. Mindless nothingness is created by mindless mortals. No intelligent organization can occur without some intelligence behind it. In the absence of intelligence, there can only be chaos. You can't get something from nothing.

Answer 5

Neither statement is rational or scientific.

Science and reason allow us to make predictions about our our world, examine the tangible evidence and determine whether or not our predictions were correct.

Whether or not our world, and the scientific laws in which it behaves, was created by an intelligent being is not in the realm of science or reason. It is in the realm of religion.

Unfortunately, religion generally tends to try its hardest to suppress scientific views it does not agree with. For example, in the late 15th century, the "theory" that the Earth was not the center of the universe was considered a heresy. Do any modern Christians still feel this way? More importantly, does the knowledge that the Earth is not the center of the solar system diminish your faith in God in any way?

Would it really threaten your faith in God that much to accept that modern science has proven that Earth has evolved mainly according to Darwin's predictions?

Answer 6

This is a version of the "first cause" argument in theology. The argument that an intelligent being caused the Universe leads immediately to the question of the origins of that intelligent being, and is therefore generally regarded as unhelpful.

Science has nothing to say about why or how reality exists. This is indeed a mystery, the biggest mystery of all.

Science does, however, offer an explanation of how our present circumstances evolved without intelligent design from much simpler beginnings, starting from a fraction of a second after the big bang.

Answer 7

You're a mindless nothingness.

Answer 8

Neither statement is correct.
A potential initiated the universe just after time zero.
It follows principles that allow it to run it"s course.

Answer 9

Neither. Which is more rational : unicorns or santa claus? Neither. You really need to do some research on the history of the universe.

Answer 10

Nothing there is stated in scientific format.
C. None of the above.