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what started the first materials in the big bang, didn't someone have to create it idk god? ( please dont slam this to bad atheists this is the only thing left holding me on to to believing in god)

2007-09-03 09:00:37 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

28 answers

it is unknown.

2007-09-03 09:04:37 · answer #1 · answered by gjmb1960 7 · 2 0

There is no scientific answer to this question. We know that physics as we understand it does not work until a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. The Big Bang itself is beyond the reach of current physical understanding.

That is not to say that it will always be so---if we had a unified theory of all the forces, the Big Bang itself might become explicable.

There is, however, an answer of sorts to your question. Given the parameters of the Universe as observed, it is possible that the total matter+energy of the Universe is zero---in other words, the Big Bang involved a separation of positive and negative energy, but the total amount of energy is zero. So perhaps nothing had to be "created"----all the stuff we see around us is balanced by the negative potential energy of the gravitational field. That still does not explain why there is something rather than nothing---why there seem to be physical laws, and why the vacuum has the potential to create virtual particles.

Note, however, that once you get into a "first cause" argument, the problem seems simpler if you always have simpler things evolving into complex things. If you've got to have something coming spontaneously out of Nothingness, it seems more probable that the "something" is a set of self-consistent mathematical principles and physical laws than a complex, omnipotent, omniscient entity.

2007-09-03 16:18:53 · answer #2 · answered by cosmo 7 · 2 0

ok well you seem to have some kind of idea about it, but it doesn't require a god at all. permit me to explain

we have two scientific theorys both inline with the first law of thermodynamics (matter and energy can neither be created or destroyed) these are the big bang theory and the steady state theory

now you seem to know a bit about the big bang theory so i'll tell you about the steady state theory, basically it states that the universe always has and always will exist. obviously i asume that goes against god somewhat

now lets talk about the big bang

this to me is more plausable just because i feel that something has to start somewhere but that isn't science what i think. so to keep in line with the first law of thermodynamics something can't come from nothing and the big bang is rather like an explosion though that isn't a great analogy, it started we think when two things at some point collided and caused this 'expolision' which is our universe, now i think two cars can crash into each other with out god so why is this not possible?
and that caused the big bang thats the most likley thing then knowing that E=Mc2 massive amounts of energy can be created

and we can validate this because we know that our universe is ever expanding, because of red shift (the doppler effect) basically when we look at a star from another glaxey and we then split the white light into its spectrum we can see that it shifts slightly towards the red, this tells us it is moving away from us (the same as a siren moving away from you on a police car, or a torch and a prisim)

2007-09-03 16:10:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3 1

If you really, really want to understand the nature of the Big Bang, you should begin by learning to understand Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. The famous equation, E=mc^2, describes how matter and energy are interchangable. To really "grok" the concept, requires a serious math and physics education. The short answer is, the first matter in the new universe came from the energy of the big bang. There are several "good guesses" about where the energy itself came from, depending on what sort of "proto-universe" you prefer to imagine preceeded the big bang. Personally, I favor the idea of colliding "branes" in M-space. (See "M-Theory.")

Philosophically, I know that Christians imagine everything can be explained with nice convenient "pat-answers" -- like the Genesis creation myth, accepted on faith and never really questioned. Science doesn't work that way and that's why no one can give you a simple explanation. Scientists never take anything on faith and every explanation only generates more questions. It's a completely different way of thinking than you're used to. Truly understanding big bang theory requires extremely advanced mathematics and lots of physics. Unless you become a graduate student in Cosmology at a prestigious university, it's unlikely you'll ever understand the details. If you're not a serious math whiz, you'll just have to trust that those who are smarter and better educated than you are not liars. (They aren't.) A good Cosmology book, written for laymen, is "Cosmos," by Carl Sagan. It's been around for many years and should be available at your local library. See "Scientific American" magazine back-issues for a clear explanation of parallel membrane universes, without the math.

2007-09-03 16:55:51 · answer #4 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 0 0

Science does not try to explain were the matter came from in the first place. There is definitely room for god to have started things out this way. This is why I have trouble with Christians who think the Big Bang can't be true???
The other idea is that the universe expands and contracts over and over again forever.

Begging the pardon of people who are listing bible verses...but, before Galeleo all people thought the Earth was the center of the universe. This of course was found to be false. To assume that the beginnings of the Earth came before the sun comes from our ancestors who did not know. God did not ever demand a book be written. The fact that people will believe what our ancestors wrote against fact is not faith...it is ignorance.
If there is a God, he/she/it is far greater than your uneducated viewpoint is allowing you to ever know. Do you want to truely praise God? Then understand science since this is how what god created is shown to us. God created everything science discovers, so denying what is discovered is denying God's greatness.

2007-09-03 16:06:26 · answer #5 · answered by suigeneris-impetus 6 · 3 0

If you think that *someone* had to cause the big bang how do you explain a ''god'' existing forever without a beginning without an end. If this is the only thing that holds you to the belief in a god you should let go.

2007-09-03 16:18:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

This question has been asked before and I'll answer it the same way. The way I see it there are two possibilities:

A-God has always been there and he initiated the big bang.

B-The universe has always been there and has gone through endless expansions and contractions.

The idea that there is no beginning to time is a lot for the human mind to comprehend since we are so used to thinking in terms of finite amounts of time. However why would the idea of an infinite universe be less comprehensible than the idea of an infinite God?

2007-09-03 16:11:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3 0

I don't know if this may help, but it's interesting:

Question: "Did God use the "big bang" to create the universe?"

Answer: Some Christians are vehemently opposed to the "Big Bang Theory." They view it as an attempt to explain the origin of the universe apart from God. Others ascribe to the Big Bang Theory, with the view that it was God Himself who caused the "Big Bang." God, in His infinite wisdom and power, could have chosen to use a Big Bang method to create the universe, but He did not. The reason that can be absolutely stated is that the Bible argues against such a method. Here are some of the contradictions between the Bible and the Big Bang theory:

In Genesis 1, God created the earth before the sun and stars. The Big Bang theory requires it to be the other way around. In Genesis 1, God creates the earth, sun, moon, stars, plant life, animal life, and mankind in a span of six 24-hour days. The Big Bang theory requires billions of years. In Genesis 1, God created all matter by His spoken word. The Big Bang theory begins with matter already in existence and never explains the initial source or cause of matter.

In Genesis 1, God breathed life into the body of the perfectly created Adam. The Big Bang theory requires billions of years, and billions of chance circumstances, to get around to the first human; and it never can explain how the first microscopic life form happened to "evolve" from a non-living atom. In the Bible, God is eternal and the matter and the universe are not. There are different versions of the Big Bang theory, but in most of them the universe and/or matter is eternal. In Genesis 1, the existence of God is assumed, "In the beginning God..." The true purpose of the Big Bang theory is to deny His existence. We can accept certain aspects of the Big Bang Theory - but the theory itself is entirely atheistic

2007-09-03 16:08:15 · answer #8 · answered by boggle10 6 · 0 3

this is not gonna answer ur question, but will give you another thing 'to hold on to', k? Whatever that thing was, it was spinning, and then blew up, and all sorts of galaxies, planets, moons, etc flew out into the space (that was miraculously there?) and kept spinning. The thing is, they are supposed to spin in the same direction as that lil whatever that started it all. now, no one knows in which direction it was spinning, but whichever way it was, all the galaxies and planets are supposed to spin in the SAME direction. Contradiction: Venus, Mercury, and Pluto, and i believe few moons, spin backwards compared to the rest of the heavenly bodies. now, im not arguing with anything or anyone.. just stating a fact here.

2007-09-03 16:08:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I personally believe that matter has always existed in the Universe. It changes with energy and time, but there is nothing to think that it has always existed in some form.

This argument is used by religious people all the time. Ask them who created God. They will say that he always was.

Why is that theory possible, when we have no tangible evidence for God, but the Matter cannot have always existed.

In reality, we cannot get rid of matter. If we burn it, it turns into Gas, if we bury it and it is organic, then it changes into dirt. The matter can be changed, but there is always matter as a result.

Matter always was, and will always exist, even when the earth ceases to exist.

2007-09-03 16:10:18 · answer #10 · answered by ɹɐǝɟsuɐs Blessed Cheese Maker 7 · 1 1

There is no evidence of a creator. And putting one there only delays the question because now you are left with who created god. At some point you are left with something always being around.

The matter was most likely always here in some form. The current theory is called M Theory that suggests that the cause was a collision in the underlying framework of other universes.

2007-09-03 16:09:10 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2 2

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