What would your guess be. And I am talking about the absolute first anything, like oxygen, matter, whatever... was the very 1st. No need to compare your belief to anyone, like by saying "Unlike the ficticious Christian God I think ... blah blah blah" So that everyone gets into "combat mode" .. I just want to know what you belief deep inside. No answer is cool too.
Thanks for any answers in advance... and no accusing me of being ANYTHING... I am a Searcher... yesterday I was an atheist, christian and muslim all in one day based on assumptions because of the questions I asked. LOL....
2007-05-26 03:54:14 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Balaam it's absoutely ok with me, that's why I said, "No answer is cool too." I appreciate that honesty more than anything! Thanks for your comment.
2007-05-26 04:16:36 · update #1
I don't understand why "I don't know" isn't a good answer?
At least science is trying to figure it out, rather than being satisfied with an answer that is obviously incorrect.
2007-05-26 04:10:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
I am not a chemist, and I have no way of testing for billion year old material. So now I have to make a choice. Two completely different theories attempt to explain the beginning for those of us who don't have the facilities, knowledge, time,or whatever it takes.
The first - - - Creation. The belief in gods that go back to the beginning of time. First, we have to ask ourselves, why the very earliest people believed in Gods. They believed in Gods because they couldn't understand the forces of nature that has such an effect on their lives.
Thunder, lightning, sky, fire, water, crops, animals, everything had an unseen god that controlled it. It got so complicated that it couldn't all be remembered, so, back to simplicity - - there's only one who is all of the old gods combined.
This god has the power to do anything and everything.
We must except that, or go with the scientific explanation. The world scientists have been gathering tons of evidence. Fossils of animals that are too human-like to be considered apes. And bones that are too ape- like to be considered human. And everything between. The imprints of animals and plants that were buried under mountains as the world shifted. All of this and much much more has been goung on, is going on, and will continue to go on. More evidence is found every day.
I have studied all major religions, and read many scientific articles. I have to go with the scientists on this one.
2007-05-26 04:25:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't have to come up with an answer. I'm finally old and wise enough to no longer need to fill in all the pieces. Asking the questions is what really matters.
The current hypotheses that seem the most interesting to me are about energy and how matter might arise from that. Of course, if I could ever get my brain around string theory, I might have a different opinion.
2007-05-26 04:01:13 · answer #3 · answered by The angels have the phone box. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why does there have to be a "beginning" to it all? Most likely, everything in the universe has been here, in one form or another, for all eternity. This form that life takes is caused be what we call the big bang, which was most likely how the last form ended. This universe will end someday and we'll never know what form it may take after this. It will continue forever, just as it always has. There was no beginning, per se.
2007-05-26 04:00:41 · answer #4 · answered by fnord_2005 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well first of all I would have to be a lot more educated then I am because this level of science takes years to learn about and understand. It's not just some random idea that can be pulled out of someone's butt like "God created the universe" is.
2007-05-26 03:59:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, we do not yet know what came before the Big Bang. The initial expansion of our universe occurred about 12 to 15 billion years ago. This release of an incredible amount of energy cooled and expanded over billions of years, eventually coalescing into the matter that makes up the atoms and molecules of our bodies, our world, our sun, our solar system, our galaxy, and all the galaxies of the universe.
2007-05-26 04:16:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
If I had to guess, I'd probably guess that we're just asking the question in the wrong way and that the type of thing that we mean when we say "universe" is not the type of thing that has a beginning as we understand the concept.
2007-05-26 04:04:01 · answer #7 · answered by polarized 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are somethings that just can't be known. I can accept that while others can't. Better to enjoy life instead searching and speculating. There is no guaranteed time here.
Also you are considered an atheist if you believe in a god other than "The God of Abraham".
2007-05-26 04:46:19 · answer #8 · answered by Chaine de lumière 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well,that a big bang occurred is pretty much certain. Why it occurred?Right now,the HONEST scientific answer is "I don't know" I am o.k. with that. There is a lot that "I don't know"Somethings may never be known with certainty,and I like the unknown,this drives knowledge and makes the universe a very awesome,wonderful place
2007-05-26 04:09:19 · answer #9 · answered by nobodinoze 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It is theorized that the true age of the earth is about 4.6 billion years old, formed at about the same time as the rest of our solar system. The oldest rocks geologists have been able to find are 3.9 billion years old. Using radiometric dating methods to determine the age of rocks means scientists have to rely on when the rock was initially formed (as in - when its internal minerals first cooled). In the infancy of our home planet the entire earth was molten (melted) rock, a magma ocean.
2007-05-26 05:40:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
im an atheist
i dont have an answer for how it all began
so, i shall continue to read science magazines that have ideas and based on the evidence pick the one that makes the most sense
i dont think ill ever really know the truth but i think i would be able to get a close idea
i dont think any of the current things ive read have ever made sense to me to my satisfaction
2007-05-26 03:59:53 · answer #11 · answered by ? 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋