Im not into organized religion...but I guess im pretty spiritual. Like im into Eastern philosophy<> There are some things I dont really understand...maybe because im kinda stupid...IDK...but can someone explain why oneday...somehow...for no reason why the universe decided to appear from 'nothingess'? Like what caused this bang and why..How can something come from nothing? Can there really be one beginning to everything?
2007-03-13 06:48:02 · 31 answers · asked by Keira 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I didnt say god came from nothing or created anything ...I tend to think time is an illusion and that everyone and everything is one...all part of 'god'
2007-03-13 06:57:35 · update #1
In my opinion you have some misconceptions. The universe does not "appear from nothingness".
Time is a derived aspect of the universe, so the universe itself is timeless and eternal even if the big bang turns out to be the first event.
I think space, time, matter and energy are actually based on something more fundamental such as eternal, unchanging, necessary mathematical truth. I don't think it can be a coincidence that the world obeys mathematical laws so perfectly.
In my opinion, there is no intelligent god just mathematical laws some of which form the basis for the laws of physics we observe.
Some of those self existent mathematical laws ( the laws of physics) support self aware observers such as ourselves and naturally those are the ones we discover.
2007-03-13 06:58:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
We very well could all be "part" of "God", whatever any of that means. But even ascended masters tell us we have to live in the world we find ourselves in, illusion or not.
God is about the "why" of things. Many questions in R&S (and in the Astronomy section) ask why the universe is so big, why there are planets and stars we can't reach, why the Moon acts the way it does, why everyone does not believe in God.
Science is not about "why", it is about "how". It does not claim to get everything right the first time. It constructs a working hypothesis and continually tests it for flaws in order to get at the truth, not just the appearances.
Scientific inquiry is limited to the experiential world. It does very poorly in the metaphysical world because there is no way to be objective, nothing to measure, nothing to compare to known phenomena. So it must work within the limitations of the world of matter and energy, whatever they "truly" might be.
The "Big Bang" is one end of the world according to that theory. Getting beyond, or even actually to it is problematic. Perhaps we can understand it by looking for the "other" end of creation. What appears to be the universe's fate? Big crunch? Infinite expansion and entropy? Dissolution into smaller universes with new "big bangs"? Science looks for clues in what it can observe, as well as new ways of thinking about what it already "knows". (Newtonian mechanics explained planetary motion well enough until Einstein came along and improved the model.)
At this time, we don't know how "something" came from "nothing", or what there was "before time". Perhaps we don't understand our concepts correctly.
Hypotheses are being developed as we grapple with the question, hoping an explanation will emerge. Is the singularity the product of another, collapsing universe, or a seeded fragment of another expanding universe? A quantum collision of "branes" in another dimension? Science doesn't like uncertainty any more than religion does, but it can live with it and work to find a solution.
2007-03-13 07:42:12 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, this is really a science question and not a religious one -- religion provides no answer to your question (saying "god did it" doesn't explain anything), while science is seeking the natural answer to your question.
I'll just mention that it didn't "appear from nothingness." That's a religious myth, not a scientific explanation. Currently, science accepts the evidence that shows a large amount of energy was concentrated in a single point (we don't know how that happened YET, but not knowing doesn't mean "god did it"), and something kicked that concentration of energy into a different state that caused it to begin expanding at a fast rate. Since matter and energy are interchangeable, matter formed from the initial energy, and the universe as we know it formed. There is a great deal of evidence that confirms this is what happened -- but there are still a lot of "how" questions to be answered. Again, not knowing how something happened doesn't mean "god did it" -- there's no evidence at all to indicate any god had anything to do with it...it just means we don't know YET. There's a very good chance that with enough research and study, we will know.
Peace.
2007-03-13 07:02:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Universe was probably always here in some form. But we don't really know. That doesn't provide any evidence at all that it had to be magic, just like not knowing about bacteria didn't mean that the devil was who made you sick.
All the questions you ask still apply to the deity that you make up to answer them. What caused him? How did he come from nothing? How did he make the Universe from nothing? So you wouldn't even answer anything by saying that god did it. You just want to use that as an excuse to change the rules.
2007-03-13 07:01:56 · answer #4 · answered by Alex 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a very good question, and the truth is we are still trying to figure it out. Another good question relates to Black holes. We know that they are gravitational forces created by imploding starts. The current math tells us that black holes extract mass into a single point. How can whole planets/stars with millions of tons of matter be reduced to a single point? It is a mystery but it appears to be the way things work.
Atheists don't have all the answers, they do try to base beliefs on known/proven data though. Just because we don't know what caused the big bang right now doesn't mean that we won't one day find out. It may turn out that a supreme being did start it all and I am sure most atheists would change their stance on God. Religious however would go on believing if God was proven false, because it is not based on reality, but on emotion.
2007-03-13 06:57:11 · answer #5 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Quantum physics does indeed propose that something comes from 'nothing' (except that 'nothing' can't really exist - see below) -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation
"...That means that conservation of energy can appear to be violated, but only for small times. This allows the creation of particle-antiparticle pairs of virtual particles. The effects of these particles are measurable, for example, in the effective charge of the electron, different from its "naked" charge.
In the modern view, energy is always conserved, but the eigenstates of the Hamiltonian (energy observable) aren't the same as (e.g.the Hamiltonian doesn't commute with) the particle number operators.
Quantum fluctuations may have been very important in the origin of the structure of the universe: according to the model of inflation the ones that existed when inflation began were amplified and formed the seed of all current observed structure."
The point is that our common sense idea of 'nothing' simply cannot exist - If you take a volume of space and remove all the particles from it, you don't have absolutely nothing, you have the quantum vacuum. Pure nothingness is a human notion which cannot exist in reality.
2007-03-13 07:00:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I cannot give you an answer about the beginning of the universe. There are scientific insights about the universe, but science does not cover every answer and probably never will. As an atheist, I don't accept spiritual or religious answers just because someone says so. I want reasons and foundations for the opinions and answers I accept. And as long as there is no satisfying answer to a question, I keep it open and live with it. This is better than simply subscribing to pre-fabricated opinions.
2007-03-13 06:55:28 · answer #7 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Your in the wrong section of Yahoo!Answers and asking the wrong people. Go to science and ask for scientific answers.
If you're really interested in this, then read some theoretical physics books. Personally I'd recommend A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking as it's a relatively easy read without skipping over the details.
2007-03-13 07:21:14 · answer #8 · answered by The Truth 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your confusion is your misunderstanding of the Big-Bang theory.
It NEVER states the big-bang came from nothing. The theory simply states that a singularity of infinite density expanded rapidly filling the universe with energy and fundamental particles.
Where the singularity came from, what made it explode, etc. is still unknown. But it isn't a something from nothing scenario that theists would like you to believe.
2007-03-13 07:05:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have the same kind of background as you, but an atheist can not give you an answer to this question. They say that they don't know or they will give you some other smart a** answer... It is because God exists outside of Space and Time. Time is only a creation of God. There is a purpose to it, and an intelligent design to the universe. I don't know the purpose.
2007-03-13 07:03:55 · answer #10 · answered by Mike Honcho 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋