Do you believe in the theory that there was simply a "big bang" that out of nowhere caused the world to be?

Question

There are so many people that make fun of Christians for believing in something that sounds like a "fairy tale" (God creating the Earth)... I'm curious how many people out there believe in the idea that there was some "big bang" that amazingly created the world and life, etc.

I'm not going to disagree that it is very hard to get ones mind around the idea of there being a God. Some "being" up there that just blinks and creates the world and people, etc.. It does sound tough to believe.. I know.

BUT.. does it not sound awfully tough to believe in the idea that somehow, there was enough force in space (which makes me wonder, where did that force come from?) and enough particles of whatever (and where did they come from?) to crash together and miraculously (yes, MIRACULOUSLY) be able to create an amazing solar system that has all these planets that go around the sun, etc etc.. OH.. and life.. out of this nothing.. millions of forms of life..

Aren't they both equally hard to believe?

I personally find it a lot easier to believe that there is something out there that can control these forces and create these lives, etc.. than to believe that everything just "happened" by some cosmic accident.... and that we're all just a byproduct of some collision..

Answer 1

I don't believe in making fun of anybody. The theory of a "big bang" makes more logical sense to me than any ideas of an omnipotent creator being, but then I perceive the world differently than you do. I don't believe in linear time (i.e. absolute beginning/absolute end), except as it applies in day-to-day business, nor do I believe in anything existing inherently.

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Answer 2

Yes. First, a story. In the earlier part of the last century there was a monk. In the Vatican. His name was Georges Lemaître. Inspired by the words of Genesis 1:3 "Let there be light." Lemaître took the stance that in the beginning of creation, all was light. In physics this then implies that the initial universe was comprised entirely of energy. This was absurd. Outrageous. The universe had always BEEN. And it was assumed to have always BEEN, well, like it WAS. And so, miffed scientists (and naturally some theologans) set out to do the only thing they could do, as scientists, and that was to discredit the obviously naive hypothesis of Lemaître. But they didn't. And each subsequent investigation, like Hubble's discovery of a dynamic expanding universe, just made Lemaître's hypothesis more firm. The final support piece came relatively recently when the cosmic microwave background radiation was detected This finally demonstrated that the early universe was originally hot--freaky hot. Hot enough that even massive particles could be generated in space from thermal fluctuations alone. But, now this notion of the universe being a smaller ball of intensly hot energy isn't religious quackery--it's scientific mumbo-jumbo. Yes, I know they say that mass is conserved . . . in CHEMISTRY. But in physics (based on phenomenology outside as well as within the realms of chemical reactions ) it just simply isn't true (sorry). That's phenomenology. We observe it--in the lab. It's not a "conjecture". Mass and space and energy are interchangeable. Look around. You don't understand it. Creation isn't something that HAPPENED, it's something that's HAPPENING. You can't skirt the issue and say "I understand THIS phenomena (like stars or eating a donut) . . . hmm, but only so far, yet my understanding is still complete. Keep in mind that science is a tool for the elimination of ideas, not their creation. Ideas come from the minds of people. To say that God grants my prayers is a perfectly valid hypothesis. Test it then. What you CAN'T or you WON'T? People already understand what they WANT to believe and that's why they believe in it. Because if you didn't believe in what you believe, what would that mean---that it's all just malleable, empty ideas that have nothing to do with the human condition? Well, yes. Any view that you believe, cannot be true by the simple fact that truth is an absolute, and the intellect is grounded in the relative. Science NEVER proves anything, science only ILLUSTRATES that some ideas don't work so well. Like Newton's laws in physics--are they accurate, no, not always. But we still use them because we know when they ARE applicable. All science and logic is inherently empty in regard to truth. There's no LOGIC in morality. There's no LOGIC in a beautiful sunset. And there's no LOGIC in liking chocolate. Answers to ultimates don't come from logic. I argue god made this and that's where it comes from (so then I understand "it"). Oh, yeah, well then who made god? (meaning I understand more than you, even if I can't understand creation) Even then, if I can't understand creation, well, then at least I can believe in science, and logic and causes and effects. Yeah, in your tiny little frame. If you believe in causality, then the way things are now is the result of the way things were. OK, but then extend this indefinitely, then the FIRST cause would be to make things as they are now . . . but that would mean things are self-caused, which then means . . . causality doesn't . . . exist? Crap. Our consciousness is not our ideas. Ideas are tools used by our consciousness---but we should know enough to set them down when they're not useful. We're human. Open up your heart and see the wisdom that comse with know how we make THIS life our heaven and our hell.

Answer 3

I think that one thing many people miss is that the "Big Bang" is a theory, many experiments and studies have been done and no documented findings in the reputable science journals has been able to discount it. The issue of god is a belief. It seems science and religion have been pigoen holed into opposing sides, like conservative and liberal, dem and republican and so on. Couldnt the energy that many refer to as god have BEEN the big bang or it/herself created from the big bang (if it happened) as well. Time began millions of years before humans were even around much less able to read and write. so i don't relly see the bible as a factor or resource for having intelligent discussion on things like this.How are the laws of nature not the laws of "god"

Answer 4

Of course, they are ALL overwhelming. Here we are, trying to understand the cosmos, and all we have are these itty, bitty brains, and a soul that keeps saying there is a lot more to it than these brains can handle.

As for a big bang....Could it have been caused by God (Insert name here) changing from pure BEING into DOING? (Could explain time, as we know it.)

Also, my friend, all of this energy prior to and during the Big bang, who said it had to be 'here'? How many dimensions do you suspect actually exist. If you want to give string theory a shot, there must be at least 26. The Big Bang may have simply been a transition of heaven knows what, into a four dimensional hole.

The Jews say, "Everything you know about God is right. And, everything you know about God is wrong." I think they are on to something there.

Happy hunting.

Answer 5

"the place the hell is the "information" this enormous bang happened"? in case you knew something approximately cosmology you may understand that the universe is increasing and each little thing got here from a beginning component. in case you do no longer understand something with reference to the cosmos please do no longer make a fool of your self by way of giving unfounded comments. have confidence it or no longer, there are people who've made extremely a study of lotsa stuff I haven't any thought approximately yet i'm no longer gonna say that through fact i do no longer understand some thing than neither does every person else. Are you following this? "nicely the information is the religion that he exist" i would be sure this is sufficient for YOU yet i'm no longer as rather happy. "he additionally claimed to haven't any beginning up nor ending" you rather do have confidence that the invisible guy in the sky instructed some goat herders those products, do no longer you? "who or wat else might make one in all those declare"? nicely, a grasping scammer comprises innovations. "y cant u belive God is our writer?" through fact there is not any information that one in all those undertaking exists and nor has there ever. "the place did God come from"? And the respond is ... from the minds of scammers and parasites. Stephen F. Roberts: I contend we are the two atheists, I only have confidence in one fewer god than you do. once you already know why you brush aside all the different feasible gods, you will understand why I brush aside yours. ~

Answer 6

The Big Bang happened billions of years ago. We can account for time going backwards up to the point of the Big Bang. We can prove at one time the entire universe was smaller than a grain of salt. WE CAN PROVE IT ! ! We just can't prove, mathematically, the moment of the Big Bang - Why? Because at the time of the Big Bang there was no mathematics. Mathematics, science, physics, etc., all started the first moment AFTER the Big Bang. When considering the exact moment of the Big Bang, all scientists must become philosophers -

which is a WHOLE lot better than any proof of some god creating the universe - which has not one shred of evidence.

Answer 7

No. There had to have been the Uncaused First Cause. The Big Bang provides no explanation as to how matter, space, time, energy first came into existence. It's kind of like the Evolutionary scientists who challenged God by claiming that they could now create life themselves without Him. He told them to get their own dirt. Same with Big Bangers--"dare you to even attempt to create matter, space, time & energy out of nothing". It is absolutely not science, but rather speculation.

Answer 8

No the big bang was not the start period but neither did God create the world. There is a better reason for why and how earth was to come about but seeing as no one was alive when it did then there is no way of knowing. Steven Hawking believes that if aliens came to earth it would be a very bad experience for us.

Answer 9

I believe the Bible. I believe God created the universe and everything in it. I believe sin entered the world through Adam and Eve. I believe God's only begotten son is Jesus Christ and he was the sacrifice for the sin of all mankind. I believe God gave each of us a will to accept His gift (sacrifice) or not. I believe. And some day I believe I will spend eternity with my Lord. I believe the Bible--written by eyewitnesses of those who walked with the Lord Jesus and who, except for 1, gave up their lives to sustain His message.

Answer 10

No , the Big Bang is an invention of atheistic evloution theory in an attempt to discredit God's Word.


Scripture says God SPOKE all things into existence with His Word:
" By the Word of the Lord were the heavens created, and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth.... For HE SPAKE AND IT WAS DONE; HE COMMANDED AND IT STOOD FAST". (psalm 33:6-9)

Answer 11

you have misconstrued the theory little one

the big bang did not create everything, as in literal creation from nothingness. the universe has ALWAYS existed.

what the big band DID do, is create the world as we know it now. the big bang was not the only big bang, there have been many others before. the universe constantly explodes, compacts (because of the force of gravity) and re-explodes.

each explosion and compaction cycle takes a LONG time relative to our perception, but the latest 'big bang' that happened billions of years ago, is refered to as *the* big bang because its the only relevant one

but because of objective reality, and the multi-universe possibility, it will remain a theory forever, but regarded as a likely reality.