to atheists: where did the universe come from?

Answer 1

GOD created the universe

Answer 2

I don't know where the universe came from, I don't even know if "coming from" something is a term that can be applied to the universe. Maybe time and the terms of "cause and effect" as we know them can be applied only within the universe, but not on it as a whole.
Anyway, I am perfectly comfortable not to know this at the moment. I do not need to come up with an explanation out of thin air and to attribute it to a fantasy supernatural being just so that there are no questions left open.

Answer 3

It has always been here and will always be in some form or another!
It has been an always changing place, most assuredly and it didn't need a book written by mere mortals to prove it's existence, a mother or father, which your so-called God would have,by the way where did those parents and so on come from all the way back?
There is no magic of any kind in this world and never has been, grow up, religion was invented to keep the ignorants from committing crimes.
Also, those fearful of life, death and everything in general needed a crutch to make them less fearful of all I stated previously.
Don't be so naive and I hope you aren't trying to be smug either because we are really sick of smug, superstitious nuts trying to stump us with fairy tales.

Answer 4

The origins of life and the universe are fascinating fields of studies and no one has the final answer. There are hypotheses that involve God and hypotheses that involve completely natural mechanisms. I don't find any compelling reason to leap to the conclusion it must be God. Through human history people have attributed things we didn't understand to God and then we learned there was a perfectly natural explanation. I think its quite likely the same will prove true for these fields. If God created the universe, where did God come from? Who created God?

Answer 5

I wouldn't know. I could make up some story or follow someone else's story, but that would be awfully arrogant of me to assume to know so much about such a huge topic.

And does that change how I should live my life? Not really.

There are theories out there, and they sound nifty, but the scientists aren't exactly sure either. They have some pretty good guesses, but all the evidence is not in yet.

So, I answer your question with another question that is just as relevant to your life: What color is my dog? It doesn't affect how you live your life at all.

Answer 6

This poorly phrased question is what one might expect from someone who both lacks the ability the understand a well thought out answer and lacks the interest to try. What could possibly be the point of such a question. Might it be because the questioner already has a pat answer that requires little thinking to accept without question?

Answer 7

I don't know- I'm not a genius and it really has zero bearing on my life anyway- so I'll just wait for someone else to figure it out. Just because I don't agree with you doesn't mean that I am going to make uniformed decisions with no proof- being opposed to an idea doesn't mean you have to have opposite answers

Answer 8

A force of creation always existed. To explain it, men wrote fables, weaving in political mythologies, and us - against - them'isms and their own bigotries. That's how religions were born, because men couldn't imagine an eternal force that doesn't look, act and think like themselves.

Answer 9

I'm not an athiest - but where did God come from?

Somewhere there is a mysterious out of nothingness begining no matter where you put your belief and trust.

Answer 10

That's a great question. Unfortunately, none of the sciences OR religions can answer that, or even attempt to.

Answer 11

Many religions believe it was the result of intercourse between 2 gods.