Could an Atheist explain to me how everything was created?

Question

I want a real detailed explanation. I have nothing against Atheists or people who believe I just don't know what Atheists believe is how we were all created. I know that there was something called the big bang but does every Atheist believe that? And how did the big bang happen? I already know about evolution so basically I'm asking how did the big bang happen? Do all Atheists believe that the big bang happened? If not what other ways did everything come to be? And do Atheists think that "in God we trust" should be taking out of the pledge of allegiance? Again I have nothing against anyone including what they believe.

Answer 1

I don't think anybody can tell you how everything came to be, or better yet, why. That's kind of a tall order. But "God made it" isn't an answer at all. The answer to the obvious further question "Who made God?" remains forever shrouded in mystery. "God is and was and always will be" is pretty, but it conveys no actual meaning to the rational mind. Theism is "explaining the obscure in terms of the more obscure."

Atheism is simply disbelief in God. That may imply a belief system to some people; obviously it precludes belief systems based on the concept of God; but it's not a belief system in itself. So no, not all atheists believe in the "Big Bang," or evolution. You can probably find people who hold every conceivable combination of beliefs, or think they do, anyway. Christian atheism? Why not! I'm sure somebody's worked that out for himself somehow.

As for exactly what the Big Bang is, I wish I understood it fully myself. I know that the concept is in part based upon observational data that suggest the universe is expanding - but I can't quite wrap my mind around that. But I suppose, ultimately, I tend to be the sort of person who trusts the educated opinion of cosmologists who have made a systematic analysis of the available evidence, over the cosmology implied in the Bible. That's just me.

Answer 2

I am not content with saying that "something" did it when I have no evidence to establish that this is true (such as god).

I think that Ambiogenesis, Evolution, and the Big Bang are providing clues to how the universe seems to run on natural, unintelligent processes. I don't know what happened before the Big Bang or if the laws of Physics were the same.

I would like to know, and I think that scientific inquiry is moving towards answering these questions, just as we discovered that the universe has billions of galaxies and that Earth is not at the center of it all.

That something remains unknown to science does not mean that a god did it, which would require a whole new set of explanations.

I will believe in anything with evidence, even a god, but there is nothing to show that the universe was created by an intelligence. Lots of people will try to convince you otherwise, but really, what is their evidence for it?

Most people tend to follow the "god of the gaps" argument. If we don't understand it and are confident enough to admit that, then it must have been a god responsible. But if that is the case, why not say that god created the AIDS virus because we don't understand everything about it?

Answer 3

"The perfection of everything working together" can be explained in two ways. One, the principle of creation, is that it was designed that way. This presupposes actual perfection which is simply not evident in reality. The other, the principle of natural selection, is it evolved that way. Everything works together because anything that doesn't work is selected against and dies off. There is no evidence that something can come from nothing. That is a theistic belief, not an atheistic belief. If you're actually referring to the big bang, do some research. You'll find out that's not what the theory claims at all. Actually, some things HAVE been observed to come from nothing, but only on a subatomic level. Feces raining from the sky would be clear evidence of either divine origin or an airplane toilet malfunction overhead. And again, physical laws of the universe suddenly changing is something attributed to divine origin, not to reality. One would expect, if an outside force created all physical laws, that outside force could change those laws and reality at a whim. This is otherwise known as magic. Laws of reality are laws of reality because they DON'T change on a whim. You've got things completely bassackwards. Atheists don't suppose reality can just change on a whim. Reality is reality, naturalistic and invariant. Only gods would be able to change reality to suit their whims.

Answer 4

You can find details about big-bang in your physics text-book or some encyclopedia, or here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_bang.

In short, big bang is a theory that originated from the observation that all the galaxies are moving away from us and from each other, thus the universe is expanding, including the space. If you make a computer model of this observation and make it go back billions of years we are left with a very small sized universe that exploded to create the universe we have today.
It is just a theory, but the most plausible one till date. Even if it is disproved tomorrow, that does not prove creationism. Because that is something ancient humans imagined when they could not find answers. No rational thinking, today or tomorrow, can find it to be correct.

Answer 5

Personally, I don't really care that much (about the origins of the universe). I believe the Big Bang happened, but beyond that, I don't really try to think to much about it. It pretty much ties my brain in knots.

The Big Bang starts off with an infinitesimally small point...that exploded for some reason and formed the universe. Scientists say that would explain the planets still being in motion today.

Let's put it this way...I'm not huge on physics. I could explain evolution pretty damn well, but Big Bang is a little harder for me to grasp. I just understand what sorta happened.

And I personally don't mind about the Pledge of Allegiance...They're just words. I don't get why people throw such a hissy fit over it. Of course, I'd *prefer* the words "under God" to be taken out...but it's not a huge deal to me.

Answer 6

Science means you accept that there are certain unknowns. One of the unknowns is the "tipping point" of the Big Bang - Matter exists in the form of a unique, extremely condensed point and then, at T=0 of the existence of the Universe, that matter becomes unstable and explodes. Nobody clearly knows what happened at T= -1 to make that happen. But that as never been a problem with science; It is in science's very nature to admit there are details which remain unknown, which doesn't mean they will be forever unknown, simply that the theory does not have an explanation for them at the moment.

To put it in another context - We are yet to map the entire genome for the human species, but we do know that genes are the building block of any one human. We can be certain of this, because alteration of the genes, in certain diseases, will cause drastic malformation - but we are far from understating how every gene works, and how they work together in extremely complex systems.

But as in the Big Bang theory and the theory of genes, the theory is sound enough in explaining what we do know, that we can't just throw it away without a proper replacement theory to take its place first.

Answer 7

Want a detailed explanation? Go to college and major in astrophysics and evolutionary biology. Don't complain here if we can't explain 4 years worth of coursework to you in a paragraph or two.

If you want to know how the big bang happened, look up Brane theory, M-theory, pair-production, and check back in 20 years when we've done some testing.

Wow, this question is all over the place. How did you get from cosmic chemical evolution to the pledge? Try asking several questions next time.

Answer 8

Okay in God we trust is on money. If you get a good answer then great! Ask them where the matter came from to cause the Big bang. What was first male or female? How did lung's come about? Did a fish just grow them or were they like cancer? If they were like cancer why did it not kill the fish? There are more! But for the sake of you getting an answer I'll stop.

Answer 9

your paragraph is full of errors. for one, "In God We Trust" is on the U.S. one dollar bill, the pledge of allegiance says "One Nation, Under God, indivisible. And also, you're asking how the big bang happened. It's a theory, not a proven fact. the truth is, no one could explain how everything was created, except the Creator. no one even has the capacity to understand how everything was created. Certain people have certain beliefs, including myself, but no one really knows.

Answer 10

Does the big Bang theory sound familiar? How about evolution? What happened to you in high school? Didn't you study biology, or chemistry? Good job...