atheist, what prompted big bang?

Question

dont forget it; out of it perfect harmony and buty was produced

ops, i forgot to mention that matter was created, its not eternal , it had its beggining. hm what would an old Darwin say about it??

Answer 1

We don't know what was before the Big Bang or what kicked the Big Bang off. We are still working on that.

And the Big Bang is in the field of cosmology. It really doesn't have anything to do with Darwin's theory of the Origins of Life.


That's the fun of science.

Answer 2

Nothing really. To "prompt" the big bang you would need to have something happening before it. Big Bang was the beginning of time. Asking this question is like asking what piece is to the right of the rightmost piece of a jigsaw puzzle (the one with the flat edge). Perfect harmony? "Buty"? More like an immensely hot and dense jumble of quarks, leptons (look it up) and photons.

I see absolutely no logical way in which Big Bang would refute Darwin's theory of Evolution or vindicate the bat**** insane biblical theory of creation involving firmaments, plants created before the existence of the Sun and talking snakes.

Answer 3

Darwin was a biologist, not a physicist.

Science does have a few theories, which would require much more space than is provided here to go thru completely. Do we know yet what might have caused a 'big bang' like event? No, but that doesn't mean we need to place some fairy tale supernatural explanation to it. There was a time when humans didn't know how fire occurred, and they place supernatural explanations to it, but those turned out to be just made up stories.

My own theory based on studies in physics and quantum mechanics, is that the universe is essentially nothing. It was a spontaneous fluctuation in a vacuum(state of nothingness), leading to the formation of positive and negative energy/matter. This would cause a tremendous 'explosion' of energy/matter to cause what we know as the universe to exist. Eventually these positive/negative forces will reach equilibrium to become a state of nothing again.

That's only one possible theory, but it has more validity than any creation myth that religious cults have come up with.

Answer 4

Compression of the universe into a space about a centimetre wide. Either that or something akin to a cosmic earthquake - two or more planes coming into contact with each other. I personally like string theory but still don't find it as compelling as Big Bang theory.

Matter cannot be created nor destroyed, but matter can be converted to energy, and energy can be converted to matter. Darwin (evolution) has nothing to do with it. What you are discussing is abiogenesis.

It has not been established that matter had a beginning. The prevailing theory is that the universe has always existed, either as matter or energy, and goes through cycles of expansion and contraction, and is expanding now. The concept of infinity is difficult to grasp, and if there is a point of singularity, it has not been found, but one thing that cosmologists, physicists and astronomers are good at doing is admitting when they do not know something. They usually say, "We don't know...yet." They do not use the God of the Gaps to explain away what is not yet understood.

Answer 5

The Big Bang and the Origin of Life are 2 separate issues. I think you're meaning to ask about the Origin of Life. The answer is quite simple.

Life started by a chemical reaction and went from there. One day a chemist in a lab will probably figure out the necessary formula to create life. Every living and non-living thing can be chemically reduced to the elements of which there are currently 117 known to man and 94 of those naturally occurring here on earth.

To believe in some supernatural god that created life is ridiculous because it presents more questions than answers. For instance if the earth and life seems too complicated to have evolved naturally and *had* to have been designed then well where the hell did "God" come from? You can't use a god to explain life without explaining where the god came from as well.

Answer 6

Oh, is this the old "there must be a God, 'cause everything's got to have a cause, so the big bang must've been caused by God!" argument. Isn't it?

Okay, I'll play along. If everything must have a cause, what caused God?

And for the record, Darwin's work had nothing to do with the beginning of the universe, or life on Earth for that matter. So why didn't you inquire what Dave Barry would say about it? At least he's still around to say something.

Answer 7

A big bunch of dense matter and energy that went BOOM!

Remember the movie The Neverending Story? Even after "The Nothing" destroyed Fantasia and Atreyu was flying around in the empty universe there was still a bunch of random crap floating around among the castle. Before the planets and the stars were here it makes sense that SOMETHING would be floating around. Heat... matter... gases... whatever...

And yeah, if everything has a beginning and was created then who created God? That's the question I've been trying to get a rational answer to for about seventeen years.

Answer 8

Silly question for any sort of intellect really. The religious position is that a deity always existed and created the universe. This is a faith based assumption since it can not be proven one way or the other. The scientist believes that the mechanism at any rate for forming the mass and energy of the universe has always existed. This too is a faith based assumption,since it cannot be proven one way or the other. At a core level--having at least the mechanism for forming mass and energy in this universe having always existed (of course time really has no meaning before the beginning or after the end of the universe) requires one level less of complexity than having a diety create it--and via Occams razor at least intellectually is the simpler of the two possible faith based explanations.

Answer 9

1. What makes you think that perfect harmony resulted after the Big Bang, given that stars explode and entire galaxies can collide? What about the fact that 99% of all the species to ever live on our planet have gone extinct?

2. Please demonstrate that matter is not eternal. Newton and Einstein seem to have shown otherwise.

3. Darwin was not a cosmologist.

Answer 10

The idea is that all matter is in existence at all times...it simply changes form, density, etc.

Your claims of perfect harmony and beauty are a bit exaggerated, aren't they? We don't live in a harmonious world...we live in a world that is ruled by the laws of nature.

Perhaps a Darwinian would say that simply because we don't know all the answers, that's no excuse for creating fairy tales to explain it.