Just out of curiosity, to all atheists.
In your opinion, before the universe, before the big bang, what was there? I'm thinking a big black hole but what about before that? And then before that too?
I just can't figure out anything plausible.
2007-05-27 14:01:07 · 16 answers · asked by SM 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I love how people get so bitchy when I link Atheism and faith together. It's like the saying goes, "it takes as much faith to believe evolution as it does creationism"
2007-05-27 14:13:53 · update #1
Can I also just add that I'm an atheist just so people like Yeow Teng K don't get too concerned about my complexion and can instead use their time to go buttfuck themselves?
2007-05-27 14:17:01 · update #2
Well AuroraDawn, I was questioning the idea that Atheism takes faith too i.e. like the saying goes which half of you haven't figured out. Stephen Hawking once said that he didn't know what came before "the big bang" but he was banking on the fact that before that, there was a time when the physics in effect today didn't exist. But he said that was something that just took faith. Like it takes just as much faith to accept a universal diety than to forsake the diety and have faith that there isn't one. I was asking what people thought about that and I got my answer. A few people agree with the eternal universe theory, a few just don't care and the others had a fit that I used "atheist" and "faith" in the same sentence.
Yeow Teng K, fortunately, I'm not a theist and I don't think sodomizing is a sin. So go ahead, sodomize your heart out.
2007-05-27 18:17:59 · update #3
Honestly I can't see that atheists would be necessarily more capable of telling you the answer than Theists. No, I don't mean the ones who would say "well god was always there", I mean the ones who, like some atheists, would say "we don't know but maybe it was this thing called branes". Pre-big-bang physics is a complete black box since no information came through the singularity.
2007-05-27 14:06:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not knowing an answer doesn't mean that god must have done it. Perhaps the physical environment is just a product of our imaginations. We may exist as energy only. Or maybe we are brains in a vat.
I don't think we will ever know how the universe began and I'm ok with not knowing that. It gives mankind something to strive for (more knowledge).
It's more important to focus on where we are going than where we came from.
2007-05-27 21:09:27 · answer #2 · answered by Gypsy Girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just out of curiosity...if you are an atheist, why are you asking us about faith? Atheists do not rely on faith, which is of the unknown and religious realm. Since no one really knows what was before the universe was here, a big black hole is one possibility. I have no opinion about what was before that because that would be guessing and I would rather save my opinion for when there is some knowledge about it. I think that your butt **** remark was totally uncalled for.
2007-05-27 22:04:40 · answer #3 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Atheism takes MORE faith than theism/Christianity.
The only thing understandable to us about the time before creation is God, who, by His nature, could not have had a beginning. Even that can be hard for us to comprehend, eternal time in the past. The Supreme Being is not bound by time the way that we are. His infinite nature presumes this eternality.
2007-05-27 21:14:50 · answer #4 · answered by Bob T 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not an Atheist, but it's just as plausible to say the universe is eternal as that an eternal god made it.
If an Atheist feels sure there is no higher power, I'd say that takes faith, yes. But most feel it is silly or whatever and there's just not enough evidence so they don't waste their lives with religion.
2007-05-27 21:05:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
To ask "what came before the big bang" is like asking what's 10 miles north of the north pole. If you take the time to research physics, you'll see that time is not a constant, linear thing that's the same every place you go. It's relative and part of "space-time", which was created at the moment of the Big Bang. This isn't science fiction; you can read all about it if you have the patience to learn.
Regardless, I certainly don't think it was a big invisible man.
2007-05-27 21:05:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Your statement is incorrect. It takes more faith by far to believe in something that can't be seen, heard, touched or conceived in the normal realm of perception. In Atheism it would seem that if a scientist writes it out then it's believable. No faith required just an ability to read and somewhat comprehend scientific data.
2007-05-27 21:26:04 · answer #7 · answered by Eye of Innocence 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith in what? Faith in the lack of faith in an imaginative creature? See the Oxymoron ...... for the last word .... use the first phrase to clear your pimples and leave the last one to describe you.
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I thought you theist felt sodomizing is a big sin and yet you encourage others to do it, does that not make you a bigger sinner by abetting? hmmmm .... talk about oxymoron .....
2007-05-27 21:06:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
And where did the big black hole come from?
The eternal universe is the only "plausible" explanation.
2007-05-27 21:07:59 · answer #9 · answered by dakina1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in the big bang, I'm for the eternal universe theory.
2007-05-27 21:04:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋