Atheists say the Universe either popped out of nowhere from nothing...?

Question

... or it just "is," and we're supposed to accept that as an answer?

Most say they know it had a beginning (the big bang left the Background Microwave Radiation) and they know it will have an end (either through heat-death or big crunch), but the fact of it's existence is just to be accepted as an unsolvable mystery.

Hmmm....ancient, just is, unsolvable mystery....remind you of anyone?

Answer 1

They also neglect to mention that for the Big Bang to have occurred at all, every law of physics would have had to have been violated at the moment. In other words, a miracle occurred....DOH!!!!

Answer 2

Of course you're making an inaccurate generalisation about atheists, and deliberately misinterpreting scientific theories (I've never met an atheist who said the universe came 'from nothing'). It's true that the origin of the energy involved in the Big Bang is, technically, unsolvable. But we have a very good reason for calling it unsolvable, and we don't generally discourage people from trying to solve it, nor do we dismiss theories out of hand merely to preserve its unsolvability. Indeed I imagine all atheists, or at least the vast majority, would be extremely pleased if someone were to formulate a logically-consistent, scientifically valid theory for the origin of the Big Bang.

Answer 3

Metaphysical questions are by definition religious ones because the answer cannot be proven.

Whether you believe in a universe that was created, a universe that came forth from something else (this is the one you're complaining about) or an eternal and uncreated universe, whatever you believe, that is an opinion.

You can prove your opinion because you can neither step out of the universe and "point" to the answer, nor do you have the capacity to go back and find out what was the correct answer. So all you can do is believe in that particular opinion.

No matter how well organized or logically based your set of opinions are, sooner or later, if we follow the chain of logic of all of them, at some point we're going to find at least one opinion that you have to believe in because you cannot prove it.

And an opinion based on a belief rather than on fact is a faith. That which is based on faith is a religion.

Answer 4

No, CREATIONISTS are the ones who claim that there was nothing and then suddenly there was something.

>>Hmmm....ancient, just is, unsolvable mystery....remind
>>you of anyone?

Yes, it shows just how unnecessary, pointless, and unhelpful it is to replace the earliest known step with "a big invisible man did it". This is the tiresome "God of the Gaps" argument. There's also a big difference between coming to a conclusion based on evidence and the scientific method, and an unfounded supernatural claim made by an armchair theologian.

Oh, and by the way, the physicist who first proposed the Big Bang as a hypothesis was also a Belgian Priest. So obviously, the science didn't compete with his belief in God. Why do so many other Christians have that problem?

Answer 5

well, that's why the difference between pantheism and atheism is sometimes quite hard to make. Spinoza, a non-personal pantheist, was in his time (or, more precisely, when his Ethica was posthumously published) accused of being an atheist. If god is not a person and not seperate from the physical universe, then he is indeed no longer god in the everyday meaning of the world, and therefore atheism and pantheism are not really opposite positions.

The thing is though, why would you assume that there is a personal god seperate from the universe if that does not explain anything at all? Indeed the mysteries of the existence of the universe would then become the mysteries of the existence of god.

Answer 6

Honey, no human being says the tremendous Bang got here out of "no longer something" or merely "popped into life". the tremendous Bang changed into the speedy enlargement of an fairly dense singularity. That singularity changed into already there before our cutting-edge universe. also- seem up the time period "agnostic". An agnostic is someone who believes that it is not obtainable to understand for certain if a god or gods exist, no longer someone who hasn't made up their thoughts. ALL atheists and ALL theists are both agnostic or gnostic. you won't be able to easily be "agnostic" through the indisputable fact that's a position on understanding, no longer idea.

Answer 7

The fact of this matter is that no one can prove anymore than what is already out there currently, so they debate and argue repeatedly getting nowhere besides corrupting their own knowledge withothers and digging deeper there beliefs. You can't prove God exists and you can't prove he doesn't, but you can prove that the book based on God has many flaws. You can see trace evidence of a where the Big Bang took place but you can't prove that it came from nothing, my theory on this is that God essentially is nothing and through nothing, the void is life allowed to breed, to me that would make more sense. I don't see God as some dictator from a spectral realm called Heaven, or some spirit that dwells in the earth etc. Just something to think about.

Answer 8

You're a big liarrrrr!!11

But seriously,

I never said anything of the sort.

I'm called an 'atheist' because I have the honesty to admit I don't know everything. I also see no evidence for deities, so I don't believe in them.

No-one really knows if or how the Universe began. I don't even know how many universes there are, of if they always existed (like U say 'god' did) or if there is a multiverse that operates on time/matter principles that we can't even imagine.

Now, what were you saying?...

Answer 9

I would say that Atheists believing in the big bang theory is a stereotype. They were probably associated because the big bang theory assumes that the Bible is not correct, and Atheists believe the same. But at the same time, it is probably safe to say that there are quite a few Atheists who believe in the big bang theory to some degree, since for the most part it lines up with Atheistic thinking.

That being said… The big bang has to assume that something was created from nothing, which science says is not possible. So… based on science this theory assumes the impossible… Personally I don’t see the logic there.

God spoke, and the universe was created. That is the only logical explanation for existence.

Answer 10

No. I am an Atheist. I don't claim to know how it got there at all. You fundies claim all that. I have no problem saying that I don't know how it got here, but I damned sure don't think there was a little man out there engineering it all. I think science will one day let us know what happened.

If you are interested in my personal opinion, I think that there was probably a universe before the big bang, and by the way, I don't know how it got there either, but I think science will one day tell us.

Answer 11

Just because we do not know how the big bang came to happen doesn't mean we aren't trying to figure it out one step at a time. Also, if science disproved the big bang at some point, it's not the end of the road, it's the beginning of the next search. What we do not do is resign ourselves to the infantile position of, "Well, we just don't know so I guess Goddidit."