Thoughts on Buddhism

[reverendjeremiah]

It does seem contradictory that it is OK for religions to claim that a "creator deity" made the universe out of nothing but is is not ok for science to state (accurately) that we currently do not know what was before the 'big bang'

Wird

I personally like the oscilating model of the universe. But I have two problems:

#1 - current data suggests that this universe will more than likely NOT have a "big crunch".

#2 - We have no data of what happened before the big bang.

So I basically have to admit that I just do not know at this time.

Yet at the same time I cant help but think that a big crunch followed by big bang makes so much sense to me. The data we have doesnt NEGATE the posibility of an oscilating universe, at least for past bang crunch activity. For all we know the universe has "bang/crunched" fifty bazillion times and this time it isnt going to crunch.

Dont put too much weight on this post...Im just rambling something that I find interesting.