Atheists: If you dont believe in God, How do you explain how everything came into existence at some point?

Answer 1

I don't explain it. It is not a concern of mine. I am more concerned with where I am headed in my life.

Answer 2

Actually, this is a well-understood rebuttal to a very common atheistic argument: "How can you explain that God existed forever?"

With our finite minds, we cannot understand the concept of infinity, but we know that it must exist. Space, for example, must be infinite. If I travel in one direction for X distance, we know that there must be somthing just beyond X, and this will go on forever. Time is also a concept that we understand must last forever. If you say that everything started with the Big Bang, or with the Creation for that matter, then there still must've been something that happened before that.

Because of the law of conservation of mass, we know that matter cannot be created. Thus, even before the Big Bang or Creation, the matter which makes up the universe as we know it had to exist... for an infinite period of time. It is mind-boggling, and because we can't wrap our heads around it, we also can't use it productively to prove or disprove either the existance or non-existance of deity.

Answer 3

Since I often side with Atheists regarding science, hope you don't mind another theist's point of view on this.

There are numerous ideas about this. I realize it's easier to just say "God did it" and be done with it because physics and theories about black holes and string theory, and theories about multiple universes etc... tend to make people's head spin (especially when they don't understand science), but I'm kind of partial to the possible idea that perhaps two singularities from another universe (?) collided and started the chain reaction that created our universe and everything in it. I'm not saying it's 100% right, but for everything there IS a scientific explanation and this sounds very plausible to me - more plausible than "poof - everything exists". And the idea I've presented here is one of many. In truth - no one knows how our universe got here - and it's okay to not know and to admit you don't know.

And I've always wondered this - how come science can't be the "how" and God be behind the science? I mean - I really think there is a way creationists and the rest of us can come together and compromise. You know a lot of Christians and other religions believe that Science is right and doesn't exclude God - why can't you?

Answer 4

Just because I don't have the answer doesn't mean humanity never will, or even that I never will. We're always learning - including you. Or do you reject all science?

Furthermore, you have to realize that God is a horrible explanation for how everything came into existence. It is no better than the arguments you might claim are foolish and/or baseless. There is no proof for God, so there is no proof that God created everything. We do, however, collect information and form theories based on this. Will they be rejected by science itself later on? Maybe. But we keep trying. That is the point.

Answer 5

One of the theories is ambiogenesis.
And to Kjerstad or whatever that moron's name is, if you say God did it, wouldnt that still be an answer?
It's funny hearing the responses how would you explain God coming into existence, hell I'm not really religious but after all the whole concept of god crosses time, according to the religious concept, he has always been there. It's hilarious hearing people pretend to know about something. Do us all a favor and read both sides of the argument before you make such a doltish statement.

Answer 6

This question isn't one that I lose sleep over at night. I just accept the fact that everything did come into existence, and has more than likely always been in existence...and more than likely evolved to a point at which life was sustainable.

This hypothesis works for me...and apparently it works for science too.

I have a hard time believing that an all powerful deity got bored one afternoon a few thousand years ago and decided to create "everything".

It takes alot of faith to believe what common sense tells you isn't so.

Answer 7

What makes you think every thing is linear; with a beginning and end. Stretch that closed mind a little, Perhaps the universe was always here; it just changed form with the big bang. You basic premise is a classic " argument from ignorance ". If it is not X, it must be Y ( god ). Weak.

Answer 8

ok i am going to shoot down all you high and mighty christians.

it was stated that the universe coming into existence, by itself, and ending up in its present form is like setting 100 monkeys in a room and waiting for one of them to type up the whole macbeth play (with no grammatical mistakes) the figures given for such a thing was astronomical. a number so large that it is too large to write here.

now if that is true. then why cant the universe have come about like that. who is to say that this is the first universe. is it not possible that the big bang was not cosmic energy expanding. but a universe contracting in on itself and then expanding out, restarting the whole process. who is to say that this is not the universe out of all the rpevious ones that was made for life. this of course doesnt rule out a god. it just rules out the theory that he created us personally.

this could be the second universe ever, or the millionth. no one was there so no one can know. asking these questions only breeds anger and hatred, so why ask them at all??

Demosthenes

Answer 9

You assume we have all of the knowledge of how the universe works, or can even conceive of it in words to draw up a theory with. Since we are obviously lacking in the facts and language for description, any conclusion, religious or otherwise, is only a placeholder to be further processed and rendered as more facts are learned. Anything short of that is the stagnation of truth.

Answer 10

The causes and conditions that brought them into existence. All things arise due to some kind of causes and conditions... which includes thoughts and such. Nothing arises from "nothing"... "nothingness" is illogical, but that doesn't mean that anything came from an omnipotent creator being (which is equally illogical upon examination).

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Answer 11

How would you explain that God came into existence at some point?