Atheists do you believe that the universe has always been here, or does it have a beginning?

Question

as a Christian I dont' think God needs a beginning because I believe he has always been here.

Do you believe that about the universe?

Answer 1

All the scientific evidence gathered points to the totality of the Universe being gathered into a singularity about 13.5 billion years ago.

Before that, it's impossible to say, and pretty much pointless to even speculate about. If the Universe WAS in a continuous cycle of expansion and contraction, or our universe expanded outward as a "bubble" pushed out from another universe in another dimension, there is theoretically no way we can know anything about that previous universe.

Answer 2

Scientist believe that there was a time that the universe didn't exist. It came suddenly into being in an event called the "Big Bang." What, if anything, existed before the big bang is unknowable. Frankly, I think this veers awfully close to theology. It seems to support some of Thomas Aquinas' rational proofs of God, i.e. There is motion in the world. Something had to start that motion. That something is God.

God set let there be a big bang, and lo there was a big bang.

Answer 3

I believe that what we currently observe as 'the universe' began with the big bang. So it had a specific beginning. What went on or existed before that is beyond our ability to access because all the laws of physics we have come to know and understand break down or cease to exist at the point of the big bang. Before that it is only speculation with no way to get any information. So, it may or it may not have existed but not in any way as it presently does.

Answer 4

I believe that energy has always existed. The beginning of the universe (which includes the space-time in which that energy moves), however, requires a concept of time. Prior to the Big Bang, there was no time (there was no temporal dimension, without which there was no way to measure time).

I'm saying that the universe hasn't always been here, but the energy in it has.

Answer 5

the definition of miracle in accordance to the dictionary; An experience that seems inexplicable by making use of the regulations of nature and so is held to be supernatural in foundation or an act of God. A miracle isn't a uncommon occurrence, it is the occurrence of a few thing it somewhat is bodily impossible. And no, i do no longer believe in them. i understand the universe had a initiating for the reason it somewhat is increasing, we are able to variety this improve backwards to verify that it did have a initiating. And mutually as technology has yet to verify what led to the great bang, you could relax certain that it grow to be no longer led to by making use of supernatural phenomena

Answer 6

You may believe that a deity has always been here, but you do not "know" that for there is no way of knowing. Did our universe have a beginning-i.e., the big bang. There is no way of knowing. A beginning suggests a flow of time-yet until the instant of the big-bang--time was irelevant--it did not exist--same thing we attribute to a diety. As I said, you believe that a diety has always been here, but you do not know that--and a prime tenet of science teaches us that believing a thing does not make it true--only facts make it true. By Occams razor adding a deity to the mix adds another layer of complexity.

Answer 7

Well I suppose you could say that time didn't really start until the universe did, so, in effect, the universe has always been here. I can't say where the matter and energy that become the universe came from, or when it came into being, but nobody can answer that with any level of accuracy.

Answer 8

I won't claim to know how the universe started or what it is,but at least i can say that i dont know instead of falling back on superstion and myth to explain it.The universe is obvioulsy beyond human comprehension.Explaining the universe simply by saying god did it really isn't much of an explanation.

Answer 9

I really don't know, but I like the idea that the universe is expanding indefinitely, and that within this never ending expansion, quantum fluctuations can result in 'big bangs'. But I wouldn't go as far as to say I 'believe' that, because it hasn't really been shown to be the case. It's just a speculation that seems to fit the evidence.

Answer 10

Energy is never lost. It changes forms. We see this everyday. Energy has always been. The universe itself was created with energy. Energy formed gases, gases formed stars, stars caused more complex compounds which led to planets. So on and so on. Was there a beginning to the universe? I suppose so, at least the universe as we currently understand it.