Atheists basically believe that there is no God but they do believe in the big bang theory which is that there was some super condensed matter the size of a golf ball and then in an instant, everything everywhere exploded from it.
And we are supposed to believe that a bunch of HIGHLY uneducated people all that time ago, came up with basically the same exact theory but used God to explain the Big Bang?
What are the odds of someone (it had to start with one person) making up something like that and then some 6000+ years later science comes up with basically the same thing but tries to explain it as a random thing?
Is that what I supposed am to believe if I want to be an Atheist?
Really?
2007-09-13 08:15:51 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think what everyone here is trying to tell you is that you are falsely confusing Atheism with Science and Darwinism. True Atheist use this clear mindedness to successfully discover many important scientific facts, and a very large portion of the scientific community is in fact Atheists, BUT not all Atheists are scientists and not all Atheists believe in the Big Bang Theory. It is however unfortunate that many believe that a simple explosion is to be blamed for the utterly insane complexities of say the human body perhaps. In Christianity you have written parchment marking key events in human history. In science you have educated guesses with huge gaps such as the big bang, and when there is a need to fill the gaps or answer a question that obviously pokes hole in such a theory, more educated guesses are made, such as evolution. One scientist says a big bang created the world around us, I ask how did such a random even create sentience, he replies with another theory, that continuous adaptation is the answer. But why adapt? Is not the entire concept of adapting a form of intelligence all of its own, perhaps even intelligent design, why would a lake of simple proteins and such ever need to adapt?
2007-09-13 08:33:19 · answer #1 · answered by silencetheevil8 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yea if you believe that the Big Bang created the universe. Scientists who started this theory are telling you the universe came to being by a way that is completely against their logic. Suppose you suddenly hear a loud bang and you ask me, 'What made that bang?' and I reply ''Nothing, it just happened.' You would not accept that - in fact you would find my reply quite unintelligible. Some people are skeptical about God creating the universe but it's the best explanation for the universe, think about it - an all-powerful, all-knowing eternal being created the universe or the universe just appeared out of nothing.
2007-09-13 17:32:45 · answer #2 · answered by underoath3001 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Highly uneducated people didn't basically come up with the same theory. They came up with the idea that a magical, invisible, super-being suddenly magically created everything as is. The big bang theory doesn't say that things were "created". The belief is actually that everything always existed, just not in the form it is in now The ideas aren't even close.
2007-09-13 15:36:40 · answer #3 · answered by Jess H 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Atheists believe there is no God. That's it. really. No, really.
The big bang is a scientific theory. I personally don't know much about it, so I can't tell you if I believe it or not. You can believe what you like, but the big bang theory and any vague similarity to Genesis is not proof against atheism.
2007-09-13 15:25:14 · answer #4 · answered by Kris G 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
No, to be an atheist you don't believe that any Deity exists.
Not sure how you can relate the big bang to the creation myth as creation has the earth hanging around for a day or two before the rest of the universe.
2007-09-13 15:23:07 · answer #5 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Basically the same exact theory? How is the expansion of matter some 13 billion years ago 'basically the same exact theory' as an intelligent, omnipotent being speaking everything into existence a few thousand years ago?
I challenge you to think up two more different ideas of how the universe might have come into existence.
2007-09-13 15:21:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Atheists are of a single mind regarding dis belief in god(s). Just about everything else is open to individual interpretation and more importantly, level of education and interest.
We are constantly having demands made upon us too explain in complete detail, things which the most forward thinking and talented scientists/mathematicians cannot agree on.
What makes Theists assume that because we do have have large invisible friends floating above our heads, we must therefore know everything about everything?
2007-09-13 16:47:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, all atheists do not believe in the Big Bang. I for one am adamantly opposed to the theory on many levels.
Personally, I think that most scientists who do believe it do so because it satisfies the religious upbringing most of us had in that everything was created by someone/thing.
I believe the universe is infinite, has always existed and always will.
My discussions with Big Bangers remind me of discussions with fundamentalists at times. They believe it because it is widely accepted even though it defies logic and the laws of physics in some aspects.
2007-09-13 15:24:12 · answer #8 · answered by most important person you know 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Nope.
Atheists just don't believe in God. Some feel what you've described, others don't care. They only believe there is no God and when you're dead, you're dead.
I don;t agree with that personally, but they don't have a doctrine to follow like Christians do.
2007-09-13 15:20:18 · answer #9 · answered by Gravedigger 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Atheist believe there is no god. A lot of Atheists believe in the big bang theory but you dont have to believe in it to be Atheist, you just have to believe there is no god.
2007-09-13 15:20:40 · answer #10 · answered by mable3691214 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋