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There Was Nothing, A Great Void, Absolutely Nothing...
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Then there was a big bang and the ejecta was propelled faster than the speed of light to fill the cosmos.
And some would say that my simple faith is far fetched. Is the account of the creation in Geneses any more unlikely than the scientific alternatives?
And some would say that my simple faith is far fetched. Is the account of the creation in Geneses any more unlikely than the scientific alternatives?
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Sandy you seem to have a rather simplistic understanding of the Big Bang. It wasn't like a large bomb, it was more like a kind of crystallisation where matter condensed out of energy, as a crude analogy. If you can swallow the idea that god always existed then the BB must be easier too accept because it comes with explanations that fit the evidence.
"Pixie, the catechism tells us that God always was and ever will be."
The implication of this is that some things after all don't need a cause. That's how the "First Cause" argument goes. But then if something can exist without needing something to cause it, then you could perhaps say that the Universe is capable of existing without needing a cause, and save yourself one link in the chain.
The implication of this is that some things after all don't need a cause. That's how the "First Cause" argument goes. But then if something can exist without needing something to cause it, then you could perhaps say that the Universe is capable of existing without needing a cause, and save yourself one link in the chain.
At least half of the problem is that people always imagine nothingness to mean a literal absence of everything. Unfortunately, or perhaps luckily, this is impossible. Every time you write down an attempt to describe a theory of nature, that leads to the conclusion that "nothingness" just cannot exist. Things can -- and must -- be able to pop in and out of material existence, entirely spontaneously. Once you realise this and allow for it it's quite reasonable to allow for even the Universe itself to pop into spontaneous existence, and the need for someone to "light the fuse" just vanishes. This is not to say that there definitely wasn't such a fuse-lighter. Merely that you don't need one.
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