Athiests: How Do You Beleive You Were Created?

Question

The universe didn't ceom from nowhere, and the guy who created the Big Bang theory is a born again Christian who beleives god caused the Big Bang. So, how do you beleive the universe was created?

Okay, I apoligize for the comment about the scientsit who discovered the bit bang. I thought he was a christian and apparently I was given the wrong information. Still, that doesn't explain what caused the Big Bang nor has anybody given me an answer as to how life exsists without a greater power.

Answer 1

The answer is simple, the Lord God created us. He created all that we see. Now all atheists, GET YOUR A S S E S TO CHURCH AND REPENT!

Answer 2

One, you are not familiar with the Big Bang theory
http://www.scienceandreason.net/oq/oq-co008.htm
http://cosmology.berkeley.edu/Education/IUP/Big_Bang_Primer.html
Second, I doubt if you actually know much about Edwin Hubble.
http://www.edwinhubble.com/hubble_bio_001.htm
Or of Georges Lemaître
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

Hardly a "Born Again" Christian by any modern sense of the word.

Lemaitre was indeed Christian. He was a Catholic priest. Yes, just not a fundamentalist.

Now about the Big Bang. It was never meant to explain the origin. It actually was meant to explain the Hubble expansion. Everything else is a feature of that. It logically leads back to a singularity and that then becomes the property of the Quantum Mechanics. It gets very interesting. I would like to recommend the works of Steven Hawking at this point. Please keep in mind that all our maths break down at singularities and absolutes. Infinity is as big of a mess as absolute Zero is. Neither one is reachable.
There is a proposal in place to create a new universe as a lab experiment. It even might be do-able. The only problem is that the only proof of success is if the energy put into creating it disappears. Kind of difficult to measure if it was a success because it would have a different space time from our universe and we would have no way of interacting with it.

So, no, there is nothing that explains creation, not even God. The act of saying "God" is just naming the problem and declairing lack of any knowledge about creation itself.

LOL @ Kurt.

Answer 3

I don't know why the universe exists, but it does. This existence may seem like a conundrum that can only be answered by invoking a higher power, but that answer is hollow, since if the higher power exists, none of us know why it exists. And the truth is, nobody knows for sure that it exists, whereas we do know that the universe exists.

Suppose I grant to you for the sake of argument that a higher power exists that created our universe. Has it occurred to you that it no way causes me to accept that the Bible (or Koran, or any other 'holy' book) is true? There is plenty of evidence and sound reasoning that tells me the Bible is just myth, even if I remain unable to produce evidence or reasoning to disprove the possibility of a higher power.
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Note that there are three areas of scientific research that we need to include to address your question:
1) Big bang cosmology ('birth' of the universe)
2) Abiogenesis (first life)
3) Evolution (diversity of life)
The last one is completely established. Abiogenesis asserts that there organic molecules spontaneously became self-replicating, and via primitive natural selection evolved to become the precursors of today's RNA and DNA. There are various competing theories for Big Bang cosmology, but all of them do have an explanation for where the mass/energy of the universe came from, but basically assume that spacetime or some higher dimensional spacetime already existed. There is much left to discover before we can have confidence in the details of Abiogenesis or Big Bang cosmology, but in both cases we almost certainly know a lot more about reality than the belief that "God did it, because the Bible says so".

Answer 4

It could have happened through billions and millions of "Little Bangs" over trillions of years. Why does one person win the Lotto? For everyone who finally wins "The Big One" in Lotto, it means that there were virtually squillions who missed out, and faded into obscurity.

What's wrong with that for a theory? It seems to hold up much better than an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving, all-everything God having created us.

And if there was such an all-powerful (etc) God, wouldn't He also have to have been "created"? Or did He just "come from nothing too?

Open thy eyes, and all will be revealed...ooh, sorry, you're a Creationist, aren't you, which by it's very nature admits that "You don't know, so let's call it God".

Answer 5

i don't know, you don't know, the "born again guy who created the big bang theory" doesn't know, no one knows why this 'universe' exists as it does and anyone who says they do, is either lying or pretending to know...

what we DO know about the universe is a direct result of the scientific method and is based on facts, reason, experiment, and critical analysis and peer review.

religion has none of these things. all of it is the direct result of man's sometimes wild imagination as is born out in the voluminous numbers of religions and their gods around the world and in every culture extant since before recorded history up to the present.

science may not have all the answers, yet, but at least it has a reliable method to use for finding them.

man's imagination...not so good i think...

Answer 6

And just who do you think "the guy who created the Big Bang theory" is? Guess what, sugar - it wasn't one person! It was several of us - and none of us are particularly religious, and not one of us attributes the Big Bang to a god! Sorry to shatter your little fantasy, but as an old news reporter used to say - That's the Way it Is!

Answer 7

How I Believe I Was Created:

One October, my mom and dad removed their clothing and [CENSORED].

9 months later, I got fed up with the lack of room, so I aimed my head down and began pushing. The pressure on my mother's cervix was relayed to her brain, which responded by releasing oxytocin in her body, one effect of which is to cause the uterine muscles to contract. Between my pushing and her pushing, I managed to squeeze my way out.

How the Universe Was Created:
It was not created. As long as there's been time, there's been space-time. If there was no time before that, then there was no time at which the universe could not have existed, nor a time at which it could have been created.

Answer 8

I think there is scientific evidence for the big bang. By the way, it wasn't just one "guy" who invented the theory, there were at least three involved. All of them conceded that there was a way to "fit" the theory with religion.

The point is, no one knows, because we weren't there when it happened.

Answer 9

Mom and dad were married, and a year later there I was.

And by the way, the inventor of the big bang theory was a priest named Georges Lemaître. And he stated that he did not believe that there was anything religious about the big bang.

Answer 10

There is no way, using present technology, to ascertain where the universe came from. That does not make the answer God. Georges Lemaître was Catholic. Thank you for demonstrating that Creationists are dishonest.

Answer 11

I don't know where the universe came from, I don't know enough about the big bang theory to say I believe it.
I find the existence of God even more puzzling. Where did God come from?