i dont believe in the BIG BANG!?

Question

i dont think its possible to for "nothing" to magically create "something". i know they say that heat and pressure started it all until it exploded. but where did the heat come from? what was there before the universe? nothing? i think its completely ridiculous. sure, the big bang may have occurred, but i believe, as i stated, that something could not be created from nothing. it's illogical unless you consider divine intervention.
did you know, some of the world's top scientists studied and studied to come up with an answer to this question, and finally admitted that there must have been something ELSE, something, and in my case i believe it was God.
im a freshman in high school...so go easy on me.=]

of course it came from nothing! even if it came from another universe, where did that universe come from? where did anything come from? where did matter come from, or space, or anything? there must have been NOTHING here once upon a time. how did nothing become SOMETHING?? try and answer that.

Answer 1

The big bang was when God spoke.

Answer 2

The "cause" of the Big Bang is the most difficult part of the theory. Scientists are hypothesizing possible explanations and formulating ways to test the ideas, but it will be a while before we can figure it out. But the alternative, "God did it," abandons any attempt to understand the observed and verified cosmological processes that led science to the Big Bang theory. Any number of possibilities might ultimately explain HOW such an event can be understood, but "God" isn't one of them.

"God" is not an explanation but a "because I said so" answer. One can't jump seemlessly from a scenario constructed from the natural properties of matter and energy and the fundamental forces of nature to one where some invisible superspirit makes things happen by sheer force of will. How did "he" do it? At what moment did the process switch from magical to material and how?

By doggedly pursuing the scientific method, we have gradually demystified the inexplicable, the movement of stars and planets, the workings of the body and the brain, geology, weather and more. These used to be entirely the province of God, but we have since discovered that there is a natural explanation for everything if we just keep looking. Why should "creation" be different? God can help provide a "why" for things, but is not quite adequate for the "how", which always turns out to exist.

Answer 3

You can believe in it or not. It will not alter the fact that it happened.

Where it came from is a really good question. String theory is having a go an answering that.


Now think on this:
Why is it that you balk on the universe popping out of nothing and expanding rapidly,
yet you have no problem claiming that an infinite sky-pixie has always existed and had no creator.

Drop your preconceptions and actually think about the issue here. Either something has aways existed, or something popped out of nothing.

For each scenario which is more likely:
An infinite all knowing, all seeing sentient god?
Or a finite, purely physical universe?

I will give you a hint. Simple is probably true, and the second option is infinitely simpler than the first.

Answer 4

According to the physicists, everything that exists was present in an infinitely dense, infinitely hot point called a "singularity", at some finite point in time. Outside of that singularity, nothing existed. Things didn't come from nothing, matter and energy existed in that singularity but in an extremely condensed form. This also ocurred before time, as we understand it, began to function, because time and space are related, and in an infinitely small singularity, there is no space, so no time. The big bang was the expansion of that singularity.

I admit that I don't understand it either, but I just have a layman's grasp of the physics involved. It takes a much bigger brain than mine to comprehend something like this. But there is evidence that it occured, and mathematically, it works out.

Some of the other top scientists in the world have studied it and also come up with the conclusion that it's not illogical. To simply write it off and say "We don't understand it, so god must have done it" is intellectually lazy, and actually gives short shrift to god (assuming that he was actually involved), because you're not making the effort to understand his work.

Answer 5

You did say that the big bang may have occurred, so you don't dismiss it.

The greatest living astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking, made the comment "What I really want to know is the mind of God." What he was talking about is what you're saying, in a way. If nothing else is correct, it would still seem that there is *something* behind all of creation.

Science and reasoning explain how, who/what, where, and when. It can never explain why, and "why" isn't in its domain anyway. That leaves you free to believe whatever you want to believe as to why we are here.

Or at least that's my take on it.

Answer 6

actually, if you were more familiar with the big bang theory you would know that all the matter and energy that is STILL in the universe now was all contained in that infinitely small speck prior to the bang. it didn't come from nothing.

the only question that remains is: are we but one of many collapsing/exploding cycles, or is this the first and only bang creating the universe as we know it?

you clearly believe in god, do you believe that god has "always been"? if not where did it come from? by your own logic you are left with 2 choices;

1) concede that god had a beginning and try and explain where your god came from so that you can then explain where everything ELSE came from or;

2) apply the same logic to matter/space/time/energy that you apply to god and conceded that all that is has always been, with no beginning or end.

how can you believe in an eternal and endless god with no beginning or end, yet have a hard time accepting that EVERYTHING always was and always will be?

Answer 7

What you mean is that you don't understand the theory of the Big Bang. The Big Bang theory makes no assertions about what existed before the Big Bang, it does not suggest that something came from nothing.
Understandably it's not a particularly simple area of research. For an overview you might understand, try Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time. Otherwise you might want to reserve judgement until you've got a physics degree.

Answer 8

There's an idea that the big bang is the result of a black hole from another universe collapsing on itself.

See, in our universe "The Universe", black holes consume MASS amounts of matter. This is observed and PROVEN. When a black hole collapses, it does so into a SINGULARITY. Since they say the big bang was a singularity that expanded with massive force I guess I could allow my imagination view that as a possibility in support of the "Big Bang".

If that's true though, every time a black hole collapses, another universe is started. That'd be neat!

Answer 9

The Big Bang is not the creation of the universe... it is just a point at where the universe went through a dramatic change... That's when the laws of physics began to apply.

The universe has always existed. If you can believe that God has always existed, then why not the universe?

Answer 10

GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEAD: THE BIG BANG DOES NOT SAY SOMETHING CAME FROME NOTHING.

Of course you don't believe in it. You have simply learned a false strawman version of it. I suggest learning what it really says.

You make what I believe are very wrong assumptions. Personally I believe time is derived from what makes up the universe and it makes no sense to even talk about what came before the universe. I believe the universe itself is based on eternal timeless mathematics ( necessary logical truth) . It only looks like space and time because we see so little of it. Nothing is ever really created. The key here is a powerful selection effect (our existence ) which selects the portion of reality we find ourselves in. Only in very interesting portions (ones that appear as rapidly expanding space-time) of this vast infinite reality could we evolve.

Our understanding of reality is layered. You see the world in terms of large physical objects. But you are aware that those are illusions made up of atoms, and atoms in turn are made of smaller particles. Many believe that these so called "fundamental" particles are not fundamental but are built on a layer of mathematical objects called strings. My belief is that all reality including space-time itself is built upon mathematics and mathematics is what is truly fundamental.

The reason why we see top layers instead of lower layers is due to our inability to see all of the the details in the lower layers.

The reasons for my belief are way too involved to cover here so I will just post a link to something simple enough that you might understand it. I fear my actual reasons are likely to be well beyond your comprehension unless you have a very advanced gaduate physics background.

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0704/0704.0646v1.pdf

As mathematics ( necessary logical truth ) is fundamental and necessary it is not created. Existence simply equals necessary truth. Mathematics "just is" because it is necessary and tautologically simple ( Zero complexity ). But Mathematics does not create reality. Mathematics is reality.

The problem with the design hypothesis is your god needs to be more complex and hence more unlikely than the reality you are attempting to explain. Saying your god just is, still leaves a much bigger question than you had to begin with.

Just as a sideline unrelated to my argument : Since I have taken graduate level cosmology I will tell you how mass and energy are thought to have formed because obviously most people do not know.

As most people are aware total mass/energy are thought to be conserved.

However most people do not know Gravitational potential energy is negative.

Rapid inflation results in large amounts of both normal mass/energy and gravitational potential energy which are thought to exactly balance each other.

Most of mass/energy you observe today formed in the first few milliseconds after the big bang as a direct result of the extremely rapid inflation which produces normal energy balanced with gravitational potential energy summing up to zero.

Answer 11

I believe with the first answer 100%. When scientists come up with theories like the Big Bang, people want to know why there isn't an explanation in the Bible that describes it like todays scientists do. I think it is unrealistic and many people want answers to be black and white when they are really more in a gray area. I have the same reaction when people tell me that they don't believe in God because of the evolution of species...why can they not coexist? I think people expect the bible to be like a science book.