Where do people who do not beleive in God think everythink came from? What created the first particles, molecules, or even space itself?
2007-02-28 03:41:13 · 23 answers · asked by theacademy123 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Everyone knows it was Chuck Norris!
2007-02-28 03:43:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
We don't know. We'll be in a lot better position to answer that question once we have a cohesive theory of quantum gravity.
However, there is no evidence that anything about the beginning of the visible universe was 'created'. Pending further evidence, the most likely explanation is one of mathematically precise naturalistic principles.
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For everyone mentioning evolution for some reason:
Evolution is not how the universe started (that's cosmology and quantum physics). It is not how the planet formed (that's astronomy and classical physics). It is not even how life started (that's abiogenesis). Evolution is one thing and one thing only -- the study of how pre-existing life changes.
2007-02-28 11:46:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
They believe that the universe is self-existent|
Theists hold that the universe is *contingent* - that it possibly can not be or that it can possibly be other than what it is - therefore, it must have its sufficiency in another, who is God, who is self existent| (God's name was revealed to Moses as I AM, Ex. 3:14, to denote that God is Simply Being - without qualification or limit - hence infinite, having all possible positive attributes to an infinite degree, so God depends upon nothing outside of Himself)|
God then acts as prime mover for all *processes that act,* and acts as conserver for all *beings that exists* (the law of *inertia* and the law of *conservation of energy* are not arguments against these)|
The principle of God's existence has been, in traditional theological and philosophical circles, known as *aseity|*
Now aseity is absolute mystery to our human minds on earth (as God Himself is complete mystery to us)|
We simply do not know the why or the how of aseity, but it is philosophically and theologically accepted as a property of God, that first cause must have which itself does not have a cause|
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2007-02-28 11:54:51 · answer #3 · answered by Catholic Philosopher 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like the others I do not know. I have a pretty good model of everything after the big bang started but I do not know what happened during or even before that, or if that question makes any sense.
2007-02-28 11:51:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Google Big Bang. Read up on Hubble's Law. Read up on the meaning of Einstein's Theory. Study Quantum Physics. You are unlikely to run into any astrophysicists in any of your pews.
2007-02-28 11:50:56 · answer #5 · answered by Rico E Suave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Middle Earth.
2007-02-28 11:44:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well I am not an atheist but in I think they believe the in evolution which would be the scientific explination. You know the one where the single celled ameoba climbed out of the primordial ooze.
2007-02-28 11:46:19 · answer #7 · answered by queeniez71 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Where did god come from? What created god? Why does something have to be created at all?
2007-02-28 11:44:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Atheists usually defer to scientists in the arena of the origin of the universe. As I understand it, we don't know yet.
2007-02-28 11:47:10 · answer #9 · answered by dissolute_chemical 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
More importantly, one should know where beer comes from. Have you bought a 6 pack today?
2007-02-28 11:51:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not every Atheist believes the same thing.
Me? I'm an Agnostic, and I'm perfectly happy to say that I have no idea. :)
2007-02-28 11:46:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋