This was taken directly from Kiba's comments on another question. Good point. I would appreciate your comments. Do you have faith that all the matter just existed, and no one made it? That it just was?
2007-07-13 00:56:16 · 11 answers · asked by bornagain2003 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am impressed with your answers so far. I fully expected to get defensive and insulting answers, but thank you all for just answering. It is interesting that we all are having faith in something you can't exactly PROVE. But faith in God and the sacrifice of his son offers eternal salvation. Why would you choose faith in the other? Why even risk it? That's where my transition began. I thought "what if they're RIGHT?" and it wasn't until 7 years later that I was actually convinced.
2007-07-13 05:36:10 · update #1
The short answer is: we don't know....YET.
One theory suggest that the universe is in an infinite cycle of expansion and contraction, and that our universe began after the last iteration collapsed in on itself in a "Big Crunch".
Another suggests that matter collapsed into the center of a black hole somehow bubbles out into another parallel universe, creating whole new universes all the time.
The fact that we don't currently have an answer is no reason to assume that we will NEVER discover the answer, or immediately jump to the conclusion that "God did it"....
2007-07-13 01:07:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A new theory posits that the "big bang" was actually two universes colliding. We're on the threshold of some amazing scientific discoveries, e.g., alternate dimensions that overlap our own 3-dimensional awareness. Eternity by definition means that something always existed -- the building blocks of matter, space and time. We are star stuff, as Carl Sagan said. We were not created -- we and everyone and everything always existed in some form.
2007-07-13 01:16:34 · answer #2 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are a variety of hypotheses: mass-energy always existing, a variant on spontaneous pair formation (which would imply an anti-universe), recurrent big bang / big crunch events where the mass-energy is recycled (which begs the question or the origin). You can go as far as to include God creating it, but that begs the question of what created God. At present we do not have the means to test these hypotheses.
2007-07-13 01:07:40 · answer #3 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't speak against it, because we don't know just how God created earth, and the heaven, He could have used the big bang, but regardless, He was in charge. I believe in the gap theory, whereas the Bible says in the beginning God created the earth and heavens, and the earth became void, there could have been a time span from there to the creation of life.
Something happened to cause earth to become void. Just a thought. My thoughts don't mean a whole lot.
2007-07-13 06:48:03 · answer #4 · answered by Auburn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is one of those unanswerable questions. And what amuses me is that religious people still try to reason with "God made the big bang", which still begs the question, what was there before the bang?
It's like the limits of the universe. Where does it end? and where it ends, whats after that? It's the biggest puzzle of the world and one which we will never know the answer to if you ask me.
2007-07-13 01:41:31 · answer #5 · answered by Steven N 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Popular theory is that it was just there. The reason for the Big Bang was that all the matter of the Universe collapsed in on itself due to gravity. Eventually the pressure became to great and caused an explosion (Big Bang) and the force of that explosion caused all the matter to move outward in our ever expanding Universe.
2007-07-13 01:01:15 · answer #6 · answered by Stephen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, from my point of view...
If everything that exists came from something else, then so did "god". And so did that something from which "god" came. And so on...
If ANYTHING can exist without an origin, it may as well be the matter that makes up the Universe as "god".
EDIT: *drinks* I see you turned this into a Pascal's Wager question.
2007-07-13 04:07:09 · answer #7 · answered by Raven's Voice 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We'll find out.
Going back all those billions and billions of years, it's not a very fast process, but eventually we'll get there
2007-07-13 01:01:26 · answer #8 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with shovelead
"I am a bible believing Christian and I believe in the big bang.
GOD SPOKE IT AND "BANG" IT HAPPENED. "
2007-07-13 04:13:24 · answer #9 · answered by Old Hickory 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am a bible believing Christian and I believe in the big bang.
GOD SPOKE IT AND "BANG" IT HAPPENED.
2007-07-13 01:15:03 · answer #10 · answered by shovelead 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋