Athiests, why do you believe it's more likely that the universe came from nothing, rather than something?

Answer 1

how bout this.... What would you think if the universe has just been there..... nothing else, why is it so hard to believe that things ARE what they are, without thinking things have to either start with the big bang or god.
I agree with the other answers, where would god come from, and if someone built god, who or what was that??
but at the same time, things in the universe are so ordered its hard to believe that it wasn't created.
maybe things just are. it never ended or began.

Answer 2

I believe in probability...

And in the terms of probability it is more likely that the universe poofed into existence than there being an infinite entity that created itself.

Speaking purely of probability the odds of the universe poofing into existence are close, but not at 1:infinity. However to have an infinite being that created the universe the odds would be at 1:infinity, or basically impossible.

Although I do conscede the fact that we do not know how long the was nothing before there was something, and if it was an infinite amount of time then the odds would be at 1:1 of an infinite entity. However, the universe would have had better odds of poofing into existence prior to the creation of the infinite entity.

All that aside, I do not believe the universe simply poofed into existence just like I do not believe in said infinite entity. I believe there is a logical and scientific explaination, and our understanding of science just has not come to the point that we know it yet.

Answer 3

You are misunderstanding. As an atheist I do not insist that something comes from nothing. That is a theistic position that god believers hold. Theists claim God spoke things into existence ex nihilo, out of nothing. Many atheists make no claims about the universe's origins other than we have no evidence on which to conclude a supernatural uncreated being named Yahweh, or Zeus, or Odin, or Ahura Mazda, or the deities of all the hundreds of conflicting creation myths is responsible. I think physics is very close to telling us with some confidence what happened in the earliest moments of the universe, but so far no physics can tell us anything about what happened before.

I always ask theists why it is they believe their specific god of their specific mythology with its specific motives and powers in the specific way it created is more likely than the infinite ways other human myths have posited the events. It always comes down not having any more proof or evidence than the other religions proposing their creation myths. All claim the truth was revealed to some special prophet by the deity, but in reality they are merely upholding the myths they were conditioned to uphold as part of their cultural heritage. They believe the version they believe due to their cultural conditioning and personal prejudice.

As an empiricist, I am waiting for verifiable evidence as opposed to the mere assertions of all mythologies, none of whom can be demonstrated as true. Until we have verifiable evidence, I suspend judgment as to what the universe came from if anything. The fact that I don't have a quantitative and verifiable answer is no reason to accept without proof one made up by pre-scientific peoples of the pre-bronze age who were wrong on nearly all points of their understanding of the cosmos. Just because I don't have the answer does not mean any ridiculous answer will do in the meantime, or I would believe the moon is made of cheese and babies are delivered by storks.

Answer 4

I don't believe they think the universe came from nothing. Athiests believe in scientific evidence. Not some guy that created everything in the world.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Sure. Matter and energy always exist in one form or another. When all of that energy and matter are compressed together into a solid so dense you you would exist on a pin head I would not only say that was something as opposed to the misconstrued ideas of "nothing", I would call that everything.

The universe is still expanding but some theories say it cant expand forever and will eventually collapse on itself again someday. We won't ever know for sure though.

Answer 7

While not an atheist, I'd like to answer this.

Consider. If there is only one thing, one single thing that exists, how is that distinguishable from no thing (nothing)?

OK, I'll wait. Try to imagine only one thing - greenness, for example. How would greenness mean anything at all if there was nothing that was not green? Greenness would mean nothing - it would BE no thing (nothing).

Do you have it? Can you hold "green" in your mind, to the exclusion of anything else, until "green" loses any meaning, until "green" is nothing, because there is nothing not green with which to contrast it?





Now....If there is only one thing, how can other things come from it?

By segregation/separation of that one thing into many.

Before this separation, that one thing was, in essence, nothing.

After the separation, the original Thing *is* something, because it is in relation to other things.

Thus, the "nothing" from which all things become is the same as the "something/everything" from which all things become.

Answer 8

Actually you are incorrect in your assumption. Atheists believe in physics and the laws of physics that energy can neither be created or destroyed. So everything in the Universe was present at the big bang. It is religious people who believe that God snapped his fingers and created something out of nothing, which absolutely defies the most basic law of physics. Hence there is where you are incorrect in your assumption.

Answer 9

atheist or not, it all came from nothing, right? many christians for example believe god came first, others believe the universe came into being without god
either way, something came from nothing
best bet at the moment is virtual particles, but it's pretty fuzzy, obviously

Answer 10

I don't believe the universe 'came from nothing' - I don't believe that an absolute nothing is a possible state of existence at all. What we can say for certain is that an intelligent entity cannot exist from nothing, be made of nothing, have no origin whatsoever. That is clearly impossible, and that is why a creator god cannot possibly exist.