For those who do not believe in intellegent design . . .?

Question

(I am not saying I do), how the universe come about? If it started from a "big-bang" how did the big bang start? If it wasn't a "big bang" what was it? I would like scientific proof as well. Thanks

Answer 1

I don't know how the universe started.

Neither do you.

I'm honest enough to admit it.

Are you?

Answer 2

See you've just made one the most common and most egregious errors...

intelligent design is intended to be a religious counter to evolution, it's not a science in the slightest, but that's a discussion for another question... The reality is that we're talking about Evolution and how life changed....

Evolution (and therefore id) has *nothing*, whatsoever, to do with the big bang or how the universe began. Nothing. Let me repeat this as many people have trouble. Evolution. Does. Not. Deal. With. The. Origin. Of. The. Universe. Or even the origin of life for that matter!

The Big Bang is the province of cosmology, physics, and so on.

As for how did the big bang come about? It's all very mathematical unfortunately, and showing you the science would taken up more than this answer could allow... However I can say that we've discovered if you compress an atom enough it will explode with the same proportions as the big bang. So there's some hypothesis that black holes eventually create their own big bangs over time, and the contents are absorbed into other black holes which fire off randomly, so the universe is kind of like a big fireworks display in super slow motion (think hundreds of billions of years). There's also interdimensional stuff and string theory...

Stay tuned though for November 26th, mark it in your calender. That's when CERN is going to fire up its Large Hadron Collider for the first time, and we may learn *exactly* how the universe came into existence and how matter came to be! It's an exciting time that should hopefully shut up the religious dimwits who still cling to their ridiculous and violent fables. Of course there is also a chance of creating a black hole that destroys the planet or enacting a quantum vacuum collapse which will destroy all matter in the universe. But those are small risks. Really, keep a watch out... our understanding of the universe may well change come this fall!

Answer 3

Science doesn't claim to have all the answers...yet.

Currently, science has a whole bunch of theories about the origins of the universe - of which the Big Bang is the most plausible.

There is no scientific proof at the moment - and to be honest, I don't think you'd be able to understand it even if it was presented to you. However science is getting closer all the time.

We know a whole lot more about the universe than we did 200 years ago. Give us another 200 years and we'll be even further. One day we should have all the answers, or maybe not, maybe the sheer nature of existing inside our universe makes it impossible to measure outside of it, it's an exciting prospect!

The important thing to note, is that thousands of years ago, even scientists at the time believed in intellegent design/creationism, it was the most plausible theory at the time. With no idea about particles, fields, forces etc...how could they even start explaining how the planet come to be?

However since we've progressed and re-thought our ideas, we've came up with better explanations for things. Intelligent design notice is very rarely accepted by scientists and most often adopted by those without much of an education - think US bible-belt.

Answer 4

So you miight believe in intelligent design. If you want that belief to seriously be considered valid then you are going to have play by the same rules that you are asking the Big-Bang folks to play by,
You are going to have to empirically prove how the intelligence that you believe designed all of this came to be.
Simply saying that the intelligent designer was always there is not an explanation
Eventually you will have to come full circle back to some version of the Big-Bang and your god will have to evolve and become the planet changing ET that so frequently shows up in science fiction literature.

Answer 5

It is scientific fact that galaxies are moving away from each other. You can literally see it (with a telescope). So it is simple to understand that if a galaxy is at "point C" today and tomorrow it will be at "point D" then yesterday it was at "point B" and so on.
Now I don't understand why the theory of intelligent design and the theory of the big bang can not be the same. After all if God created the heavens and earth why do we assume the scientific theory of the big bang was not the start of it.
A lot of scientist who follow the big bang do not disagree with God causing it.

Answer 6

Here is a perfectly good answer, I don't know. It isn't a choice between the God of Abraham and Creationism on one side, and The Theory of Evolution and the Big Bang Theory on the other. It is a matter of drawing the best possible conclusions from the information at hand.

If you want one beautifully cohesive picture of how it all started, I'd have to say we have scant evidence of how it did. Of course, what happened afterward becomes clearer, and Evolutions is much more soundly grounded than any theory's on the beginning of life or advent of time and matter.

Answer 7

Great questions. Complicated answers.

(A) The amount of anti-matter and negative energy may balance out to become zero meaning the universe always existed in some form.
(B) The Big Bang was the beginning of our universe, which is just one out of many, perhaps an infinite amount, that have existed through an eternity.
(C) Time has a shape, that is not lineal (although that is how we experience it), which means that there is not necessary a "beginning" or "end." Asking how the universe began, then, would be like asking what happens at the edge of the Earth.

Answer 8

Just because there's a lack of a scientific answer doesn't mean that a myth story is true. Not saying that there isn't a scientific answer, just pointing out the logical fallacy in your question. If there was an intelligent design, than why do we have an appendix? The only part of the body that has no purpose and that can kill us.

Answer 9

If you want scientific proof, you're going to have to wait.

There are numerous good hypotheses, but until we figure out a cohesive theory of quantum gravity, we can't reach the moment of the Big Bang/Inflationary Era.

Or better yet, earn a PhD in Theoretical Cosmological Physics and help us find those answers.

Answer 10

Well there is a theory that their are multiple universes and a big bang is the result of 2 universes bumping into eachother. As for where the universes came from, maybe they came from god, maybe they are infinite. No one really knows.

Answer 11

No body knows for sure, since there was no humans when it happened if it did happen. Scientists only try to theorize how it might had happened. I believe we will never know.
But I do know that I don't believe that it was created by some god the way a man-written book (specially a book that was written when man knew nothing about the universe) says it was!