Scientifically, we can only trace the history of the universe back to the big bang?

Question

We can only trace the history of the universe back to the big bang, prior to that there was no time, space or matter. What started it, where did it come from? Who made God? Most importantly, how many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie roll tootsie pop? And does knowing or not knowing benefit mankind more?

Answer 1

When an artist paints a picture we see the finished product. If we're very lucky we might see some of the process of the painting as well. But the origin of the painting is something we cannot see, because it begins in the mind, the heart, and the soul of the painter.

When a flower grows, we see the seed, but we do not see the life that causes that seed to grow. We know the processes, but not the central fact of it's ability to propogate.

Sometimes I think we want to know more than God means us to know. We can go back to "In the beginning" and that is as far as we can go. Science says, In the beginning the Big Bang. The Bible says, In the the beginning, God.

There are a finite and knowable number of licks to the center of a tootsie roll pop. There is a line over which we cannot go, either scientifically (because science can only define processes) or spiritually (because God is always the beginning in true religion).

So, scientifically you will always be tumbled about in relativism, which is okay for the researcher, but death for the moral man.

Religiously, when we get to God there is only one logical question-----what is my relationship to him, and flowing out of that, how then should I live?

Maggie

Answer 2

Well, first of all, the big bang was over 4 billion years ago, and the universe was created because of it. That's why there's no history before that. Also, time did exist before the universe. Time started 14 billion years ago. What started it, we still don't know. Some people believe God created everything. Some people still believe in a scientific explanation. As for the tootsie pop, it depends how you lick, but I counted 378 once. I think knowing benefits mankind more.

Answer 3

The big bang is a postulation based upon evidence correlated with reason and prudential judgement. It represents what we cuirrently know about the universe. Where did the universe come from? This is an ontological and teleological question that begs theological and philosophical questions rather than anything strictly scientific. Who made God? God is that which nothing greater can be thought and as such, if God exists, is uncreated and eternal, the Creator rather than a creature. Knowledge is always ambiguous in terms of its potential effects. Tootsie pops? They still make those things?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

technically, we believe in the one big bang, but there is actually evidence out there stating that there were actuallly a multitude of small bangs.
No idea who made god.
Ninety six licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop. (i'll refrain frommy usual perverse jokes because I've been reported for abuse at least six times today and I'm sort of waiting for one more to report me)
Also, I think that not know beneifits mankind more. The ignorance breathes into humanity a sort of unimagined possiblity. If science were to find the answer for this question, we would know too much. Religious belief would either be proved correct or a complete lie that many have based their entire live on. I'm not sure whether humantiy could handle that kind of turmoil now.

Answer 6

The evidence for the big bang is compelling. One of the postulations about what came before that singularity include the Big Crunch....which is the opposite of the big bang. Some have said the eventually outcome of this universe after it has finished expanding, would be the time for another Big Crunch, and on and on.

Answer 7

We don't know what started, we don't know where we came from. But we do know that we don't know. We pretty much know that there was space and matter before us. Im not sure you can "make" an omnipotent entity even if you are another omnipotent entity. But for a zealot their chosen profit/current minister "made God", by molding their perception and speaking for God. The owl said it takes 3 licks and owls always tell the truth. At least mine does. We will never know.

Answer 8

You ask numerous questions, so I will give a brief answer for each:

1) Yes, it only traces back to the Big Bang
2) If we could know what started it, we would know more about the process of the Big Bang
3) To make is to bring into existence that combination that is not currently in existence. If God is eternal, then he/she/it was not "made" so he/she/it does not have a "maker."
4) One, two, ....THREEEEE....*crunch*.Three, it takes three
5) I know that I don't know the answer to this--so that is, itself, the answer

Answer 9

No, we can't even track it back that far xD After all it is still a THEORY. I think there might be thories on where and how it came. God is still not proven to exist either. And my brother told me 27 licks o_O I think i counted a lot more though. Neither. Knowing and not knowing makes no difference! :O

Answer 10

actually it's logical to say that before the big bang, the was the universe, lol.. it's believed that it is a chain reaction, clasping and expanding over and over.