do scientist belive in an after life if they belive in the big bang theory?

Question

so what people are saying is that scientist are right and religion should be thrown out the window. If they are the smartest people then why don't we listen to them?

Answer 1

Hi Drewby -

The wording of your question raises more questions.

By "after life" do you mean eternal life? Or do you just mean a belief in god? There's a big difference between the two in religious circles.

In either case, as a previous answer points out, some "big Bang" scientist do and some don't.

Believing in the "Big Bang Theory" (BBT) has nothing to do with religion, because the theory doesn't explain how the stuff that explodes into the "Big Bang" got there in the first place! Or, for that matter, why it "explodes", if that's the correct word.

Personally, I don't believe the BBT - it is based soley on Hubble's explanation of the the red-shift, and there are several other explanations. Also, in order for the BBT to work, it requires inventing rather bizarre things such as String Theory. The essence of all good scientific theories is that they simplify our understanding of the universe. BBT just complicates it.

As to the existence of a god, it's very difficult to imagine that the universe and life happened by chance, so there must have been some supreme being at work. However, I don't attribute to that being the petty rules that most organized religions on earth do, or subscribe to the notion that unless you follow this or that religion's tenants, you are doomed.

It's hard to draw a boundary between science and religion when discussing these issues, so no wonder these subjects are argued so emotionally!

But good luck on finding the answers! In the end, I doubt that human intelligence will be able to unravel without controversy these issues, any more than a fly on the wall can understand calculus!

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Answer 2

Go and do some research. You will not find any peer reviewed articles in science journals written by scientists that support the idea of after-life. There are more than likely quite a few who believe in it personally, but they do not try to make science out of it because they know there is absolutely no proof of it at all.

Big Bang Theory, on the other hand is supported by proof. Look it up. It is pretty high level science though and not easy to really understand. However, the people who present it present it with evidence.

Answer 3

Not sure why the big bang theory would conflict with religion. I accept the big bang theory, and still accept a higher power. The big bang started with a point of singularity and boom... it all started to expand quickly. What keeps me accepting the high power are a few questions?

What is "housing" the universe? If I got to the end of the universe and put my hand through the other side, would there be something there?

The point of singularity? What was before? Where did the energy in that tiny tiny point come from?

A higher power? Sure! Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha, Moses?? Well... nothing really to do with the big bang.

Just my 2 cents. Now I am broke!

Answer 4

Virtually all the "founding fathers" of Science (eg.: Blaise Pascal) believed in God, including Charles Darwin. Darwin abandoned his belief in God and proposed a theory to explain how we came to be, sans God. Darwin's theory has been taught as fact in spite of it being only a theory. Many scientists are atheists. Scientists have a unique view of our environment, a view which we generally don't have. They have electron microscopes, supercomputers, huge telescopes, and other tools the average civilian doesn't have in their garage. As such, many scientists see evidence of ID (intelligent design) which we cannot see, evidence you won't see in the major media. Such evidence is published, but the major media houses don't normally want to touch such evidence.

Whether scientists believe in an afterlife, the big bang theory, or both, is dependent on the particular scientist. Many do believe in an afterlife.

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Answer 5

that is quite honestly anybody's wager. The information that cosmologists have chanced on (like the actuality the universe is increasing) ends up in a real looking end that the universe began with a large bang, yet on the grounds that there is not any information of what occurred earlier then, the only answer a scientist can provide you is "i do no longer comprehend". technological know-how bargains with the translation of information, no longer in perception in recommendations, and maximum scientists are clever adequate to no longer speculate whilst the information is non-existant.

Answer 6

Some scientists are religious and some are not. Some religious people are scientists and some are not. There is NO CONNECTION between belief in the big bang and belief in an after life. You are mistaken if you think believing one automatically rules out believing the other. I believe in them both.

Answer 7

This is not a science question....it's religious. This is the wrong forum.

Edit: Fox3bhc: "Darwin's theory has been taught as fact in spite of it being only a theory." If you have the scientific credentials you mentioned, then why don't you know that the word "theory", in a scientific sense, does not mean a guess?The definition of theory in this case is: A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.

Answer 8

i don't think so. scientists know that there was nothing in the beginning, and there'll be nothing after death. before you were born, u didn't exist. there was no sign of you, no unique DNA that now exists in each and every of your cells. you were nothing, you will become nothing.
even if the big bang came from something, that something probably came from something else but there has to have been nothing in the beginning. just as there will be nothing in the extreme future.
very depressing....

Answer 9

Absoupositively.

Answer 10

That's a religious topic and not a topic science addresses.