Don't believe in God? How do YOU explain the world's existence?

Question

PLEASE DO NOT BE RUDE!!

I'm serious! Don't try to tell me I'm stupid for believing in God or "God isn't real" or try to convince of a particular religion. Just tell me how you would explain the world's existence since according to you there is no God. NO ONE can use the big bang theory, because as a personal scientist who is updated constantly on all current physics and cosmology facts and events, I can tell you that it is JUST a theory and actually contradicts itself and the laws of quantum mechanics/Einstein's general theory of relativity(once again, a theory).

Zero Cool, I didn't say it was a mere speculation, I said it is a theory, and it is, because it hasn't been proven.

Why is it that despite my plea NOT to be rude, everyone avoids answering me, and instead leaves rude comebacks to my question?

Paien, why answer my question, if you don't have an answer?

Answer 1

You use a term that I am not familiar with: "Personal Scientist." I must speculate, but I assume that this means someone who is relatively untrained and unqualified to be called a scientist in any real sense of the term.

If I'm wrong, forgive me.

If, however, I'm right, you should be ashamed of yourself, because you are happy with calling yourself a scientist with none of the prerequisite knowledge.

The issue of explaining the world's (i.e., Earth's) existence is relatively simple, compared with explaining the universe's existence. The formation of the planets has been "theoretically" explained via the star formation process, which begins by gravitational heating of gasses, the resulting beginning of nuclear fusion, the consumption of hydrogen, and ultimately the consequent creation of heavier elements. Supernovae explode these heavier elements into the universe, and allow for later generations of stars to develop and to attract rockier bodies, such as the Earth, which has an iron core.

However, I doubt that is the question you are really asking. If it were, you would have actually gone to the astrophysics section or visited the site http://talkorigins.org, where such questions are answered with more specificity and probably more clarity than I can provide.

Instead, I believe you are asking how can non-believers live without a sense of certainty of what happened before the big bang, if indeed there can be even a discussion of "before" the big bang, since time itself probably began at that moment.

The truth is that scientists and non-believers are quite happy to allow for the process of discovery to go on without an end. Believers have a hard time with such an open-ended process, and so into the gap hypothesize "God." As such, however, God fails to be either satisfactory or permanent. A God who is only first cause cannot possibly be then asserted to be the personal God of the world's religions, because that God's message is so diffuse as to be impossible to ascertain. Each religion pretends to have the direct message from God, creator of the universe, but this simply is the hubris of human imagination. Rather, the first-cause God is simply an ignition switch that starts the engine rolling, and is in no way involved after disconnecting the jumper cables. What's more, a first-cause God is ever in retreat. As science discovers more and more, God recedes into the reaches that remain unexplained.

So the question you asked is not one that involves an answer but an attitude. Can you tolerate not knowing, but continuing to support discovery? Or do you have to assert a pretend answer that serves no more purpose than a comfort in the face of ambiguity? Non-believers embrace the ambiguity with awe and wonder and are satisfied with it alone. Believers have to pretend they know more than in reality is possible.

Answer 2

Thing is, since the Big Bang is a theory that hasn't yet been proven or disproven (and some theories have been proven!), doesn't mean people can't believe in it. And that is what I think happened.

I'm assuming you know the theory: a small point eventually exploded, forming the universe.

Now, the real questions are, "Where did that point come from? What created the point? What created the creator of the point? Furthermore, what caused the Big Bang?" And so on.

I can't tell you the answer to any of these questions, because I don't know. But the difference between you and me, is I don't mind the unknown. I don't have this undying urge to know the whole history of the universe. Sometimes you have to be content with, "It just is."

Answer 3

When I was young I was so amazed by the world that I thought a God was altogether possible. I was also encouraged to believe in a God as all the adults in my life were Catholic. I thought that the unexplicable awe I felt when contemplating life and the universe was proof of a God. Thats how I felt when I was younger, I've since come to my senses but the majority of the people around me still believe in the invisible man in the sky. Except for my little brother whose only 15 and a prominent and proud atheist :P

Answer 4

I don't believe in the Christian God. But I do believe in a god and a goddess. I am wiccan. I believe that the world came into existence sort of the same way as Christians do. I just don't believe that their theory of it is correct. But for me it is hard to believe that one person simply created the universe with just a few words. The world and universe was here before we evolved. If we could explain how the Earth was created, then we would have to explain why every other planet, all of the stars, and galaxies were created too. The simple fact is that no one really knows. I believe that early christians made up the whole 'God created the universe' thing just for a sense of closure. So they would have it set in their mind and make other people believe it so they didn't have to live fearing the unknown. It's hard for me to express what I am talking about in words. So sorry if some of this don't make sense to you. If you want to talk more about it or ask me any questions or whatever. Email me.
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Answer 5

P-branes collided (that's right - breaking out the old p-brane theory), which caused the big bang in an infinite # of universes throughout the metaverse. This universe happened to have all of the right laws, physics, and circumstances to create life. Out of that, we somehow managed to evolve from a series of stringed molecules into amino acids (probably with the help of a lightening bolt or 2), and evolution started.

As for the theory stuff - you are correct, but a theory is acutally pretty good. Newton's Law of Gravety has been downgraded to a Theory because it doesn't jive with Einstein's Theory - and both have their correct points.

Just because it is a theory doesn't mean it's wrong - it means that it hasen't been proven as a law yet.

Answer 6

The big bang theory has very little to do with the existence of life on this planet and others. It has to do with how this universe began, simply from the explosion caused when another earlier universe collapsed onto itself so tightly that it could collapse no farther and exploded, All scientific thought is put forward as theories, since they have to be discussed and either chosen as correct or refuted. That does not make them any less theories. Too bad you aren't educated, you'd know that. We came to be because of evolution. Things changed, and kept changing until we have the world around us. Life could have started because of a lightening strike, or it could have been seeded from a stray meteorite. Nobody is sure. But you can bet your life that it wasn't the way the bible says. If your little brain isn't intelligent enough to accept that, then perhaps, you are from an earlier, less intelligent species on its way to extinction.

By the way, what the hell is a personal scientist?

Answer 7

I'm not a physicist or a cosmologist and I'll bet dollars to doughnuts that you're neither.

Relax. There's no urgent need to explain life, the universe, and everything (at least not right this minute), so you don't have to understand it all and you don't have to defend your understanding.

I don't believe in any god or gods; the concept is just too far-fetched to accept in the absence of evidence. I don't know how the universe came into existence, and I don't know if the Big Bang theorists are right; but even if they're wrong, that doesn't automatically mean that god exists.

I do know that we understand these things better with each passing year, and that's why it's kind of silly to say, "well, this is where our knowledge ends, so from here on out the answer is God Did It."

Answer 8

I don't believe in God. And I personally don't try to explain the world's existence.

Would it make me any happier? No. A better person? No. Enjoy life more? No.

It would be interesting from an intellectual point of view, but no more so than the discovery of a gene link to longevity or the existence of Earth-like worlds elsewhere in the Universe.

Since I am not a theoretical physicist or a cosmologist I leave such things to other people to work on. Not knowing everything doesn't bother me. I have other things to do with my time.

Perhaps not a great answer but it's all I've got for now.
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Answer 9

You dont ask for much Babs!

Yahoo Answers is a good forum but you may be over-reaching a bit if you expect someone to explain the whole of creation on here

Yep all we got are theorys and yours is just another one (no offense) personally I think there are more pressing concerns in the world right now rather than what happened countless millenia ago

Answer 10

Actually I believe in God AND the Big Bang theory. There is a lot of evidence to support the theory. Not many things in science has been "proven", but most theories have a lot of evidence to support it.