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Atheists - What do you believe?

I was wondering about the different theories Atheists have about how our Universe came to be, what happened before the big bang? Or did that even happen? Obviously a theist generally believes God made everything happen, what are your thoughts?

Tags: Universe, bang, beliefs, big, god

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Permalink Reply by Jaume on November 15, 2009 at 3:41pm

No idea. I'm agnostic in the most literal sense on this.

Permalink Reply by The Secular One on November 20, 2009 at 12:40am

Thirded. Although, I hope for the evolving set of black hole universes.

Permalink Reply by Nate on November 15, 2009 at 3:45pm

No idea. I'm agnostic in the most literal sense on this.

Ditto.

Permalink Reply by Mel on November 15, 2009 at 3:46pm

I'm inclined to think that even if there was a way for us to detect what happened before the Big Bang, it would be so outside the realm of experience for most of us that understanding it would be limited to physicists and those on acid trips.

Permalink Reply by Sarah Elle on November 15, 2009 at 4:26pm

I'm with you on this one.

Permalink Reply by James (bones) Barton on December 29, 2009 at 1:32pm

No doubt! ;)

Permalink Reply by Sigmund on February 2, 2010 at 11:41am

Yes - why should we presume that we will ever be able to discover or understand the origin of the universe?
Religions offer simple explanations - when you think about it, such simple answers seem counter-intuitive (though that obviously doesn't stop many people from going along with them...)

SR (atheistprinciples.tripod.com)

Permalink Reply by bobh on July 22, 2010 at 4:40pm

we may be living inside of a black hole right now! At least thats what Isaac Asimove speculated. I`m sure other science writers have also thouht along this line. But how will will we ever know? Its certainly beyond me but its fun to speculate.

Permalink Reply by Glenn Sogge on November 15, 2009 at 3:46pm

All the evidence seems to point to the Big Bang having happened. So, I guess you could say I believe that. As to what there was before that or why it happened, haven't a clue. In fact, I'm not even sure that the question makes sense. Would there have been time before the Big Bang? I'm not sure. And if there was something similar to what we now experience as time, I don't know that we can/could have experienced it.

Permalink Reply by Dean Loring on January 8, 2010 at 12:27am

But that's just another type of political correctness. Fear no words. Its the ideas you gotta watch out for.

Permalink Reply by Mike Harvison on January 23, 2010 at 10:25pm

! agree

Permalink Reply by AtheistTech on July 2, 2010 at 8:34am

I just saw a science channel tv show "Through the Worm Hole with Morgan Freeman" and they talked with theoretical physicists and there are currently 3 theories concerning the Big Bang. One is that the Big Bang is prevented by something from becoming a Big Crunch thereby starting a new Big Bang so that the Big Bang has happened over and over again without a beginning. For some reason I can't remember what the second one is, but the third one is called "M" theory where 3 dimensional space is "on" a membrane that is very close to another "brane" and periodically (on the order of trillions of years) points on these "branes" collide causing Big Bangs on both "branes" and the matter in these Big Bangs gets "diluted" (over trillions of years) so much so that you could describe it as a void at which time the "branes" collide again and create a new Big Bang.

I can't wait till the LHC sees evidence toward one theory or the other, or something new!!!!