Creation,Evolution (the big bang)?

Question

Some people believe the big bang, that from the reactions of objects in space created the earth and stuff, but yet don't believe that there was a god that had something to do with it. If you believe in the big bang, what created that stuff, which created that stuff, to have a reaction to create the earth and stuff. Why don't people notice how magical/unbelievable for a big solid thing (watermelon) to grow from a little tiny black seed, or how another creature is made, from inside a human, thats nothing but guts and meat in the inside!

Answer 1

How is the preexistence of an all powerful god be more believable than a simple singularity?

Answer 2

If you keep in mind that people back when Genesis was written did not have the terminology, let alone the technology, that we have today; the Genesis creation story IS the Big Bang theory. It's narrow minded people who don't think about God as different from humans (like how can God be awake for people in both sides of the planet if h He has the human limitation of a 24 hour day) that don't understand how the 2 are actually 1 and the same story. Isn't God great?!

Answer 3

If you want to understand what atheists beleive, why don't you find out?

I can't explain how all of this complexity came to be, as it's a complicated story.

But you have the same problem -- actually a greater problem -- by assuming this all powerful all intelligent being exists.

Why created god? How did god come into being?

It makes more sense to believe that complex elements came from physical and chemical processes, and life came from processes on those complex elements, and so on.

You have infinite complexity coming from from nothing and no where that simply SAYS Let there be this, that, the other.

I say the complexity we see around us is the result of increasing complexity from originally simple materials and processes, built up over a really, really long time (that's hard for humans to conceive, as we think a decade is a long time).

Although we don't yet entirely know all the details, there's a lot we've figured out.

It's really interesting; it would be worth investigating it.

There's no reason to assume that learning science means you have to stop believing in god; most believers accept science.

Answer 4

Your question is really two in one.

The current scientific record supports the theory of evolution over all other testable hypotheses. Whether or not the process of evolution is a) the mechanism used by a divine being to set forth increasing complex life or b) a result of natural selection after a (singly improbable but jointly likely) random process is unknown and cannot be known by science.

Similarly, the Big Bang is a hypothesis for the origin of the universe that is well supported by existing evidence. Whether or not this was caused by a creator god or a result of an unknown physical and natural process is unknown and cannot be known using scientific methods.

Despite what other people on this forum may say, there currently exists NO scientific hypothesis for what came before the Big Bang. Frankly, this is impossible as any information (in a physics sense) was dissipated either before or after the beginning of the universe as we know it. In other words, there is no sense in talking about what happened "before" the Big Bang in a physical sense when physical time begins with the Big Bang itself.

Answer 5

And yet a watermelon does, in fact, grow from a seed and a human does in fact grow inside a mother. Neither of these facts contradicts any law of physics, chemistry, or biology.

I suspect that you think of the Big Bang as a typical explosion, only larger. This is false! Instead of things moving through space like in an explosion, it is space itself that is expanding in the Big Bang. Also, time itself is part of the universe and so began when the universe did. So there is no 'before the Big Bang'. It is like asking what is 'north of the north pole'.

Answer 6

The process by which a watermelon grows from a seed is very straight forward. Unfortunately, recounting that in this forum would be a tedious task. The problem here is, while I'm sure you are an intelligent person, you lack the basic understanding of botany, chemical processes, and quantum physics. The questions you have asked takes the average student a few years of study to understand. So by all means, keep asking these questions. Ask your teachers, your college professors, your librarian. There are answers, theories, and explanations you might find interesting. Don't relegate these processes to magic, you will do yourself a disservice.

Answer 7

Science is honest about what it does not yet understand.

Religions just make up something supernatural to fit the gaps in understanding.

How is your argument more valid because we do not yet understand every detail about our universe, or some of our deepest questions? At least we are searching for answers, not making them up on the fly. Do you really believe that an invisible man is a logical alternative to the Big bang?

Case in point. For thousands of years, humans assumed that gods made the human species in an instant from mud and punished them with the weather. That was their "answer" for the unknowns. But the theory of evolution and understanding the weather changed that. You are saying that making up an answer means that it is correct, instead of finding the evidence for what is out there.

Answer 8

If you're going to use that logic, who created God? The mass could have always been there. Or have been created by a single instance of extreme energy. Whatever the origin of the Big Bang, it is better to scientifically study it rather then just say "God must have done it".

Answer 9

The all-powerful God you and others refer to would have to be greater than the universe and outside it. So powerful it knows everything, the count of hairs on heads, sand grains on beaches, and whims in the hearts of men. Not just on this world, but on every world around every star in every one of the billions and billions of galaxies in the vast infinity of our solitary universe. A mind that knows where every atom everywhere in the universe is and where each was at every point of history from the beginning of time to the end of time.

How can a mind comprehend such a God?
It makes sense to not believe.

I am a Theist but my spiritualism isn't based on confronting science as faith and science are different things.

Some minds are too small to comprehend the assembly instructions for Ikea furniture much less the majesty of creation.



Blessed Be!

Answer 10

We observe that nature obeys simple mathematical laws. Perhaps what exists is not the space/time/matter/energy but the mathematical laws themselves.

If so, nothing is really created, and math just exists by necessity. The mathematics we observe is then just selected by the fact we exist.

Remember our understanding of nature is layered. We are just unable to see the lowest layers.

Think about this:

What are the odds of having a fully functional god be formed spontaneously out of an explosion?

And if those odds are small why would the odds of a functional god "just existing" for no external reason at all be any greater?

Answer 11

The "big bang" theory was first thought up by a Christian priest and rejected by science! Once it was realized that the universe was expanding, science had to accept it. That's when they started adding all the materialist nonsense to the theory. To try and explain away God!