RE: Christian argued that everything must have a creator
December 6, 2015 at 10:57 am
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2015 at 10:58 am by athrock.)
(December 5, 2015 at 7:36 pm)Irrational Wrote:(December 5, 2015 at 6:15 pm)athrock Wrote: The Big Bang Theory states that time, space, matter, etc. all began to exist at a single point in the distant past...approximately 13 billion years ago. Why? What caused or created the big bang? Did everything suddenly come into being out of nothing? If so, why don't we observe this phenomenon happening all the time? If you were to find a watch on the sidewalk, would you assume that is simply appeared there out of nothing, or would you assume that someone dropped it there? And would you further assume that there was a watchmaker who made it to begin with?
Shouldn't you also assume the watchmaker was created? I've never witnessed an eternal watchmaker.
Why should anyone assume that? That's called an infinite regress, and it leads nowhere. And the fact that you've never "witnessed [emphasis added] an eternal watchmaker" does not prove that one does not exist.
Quote:And I don't think anyone here is saying anything came out of absolute nothing.
That's precisely what leading scientists are saying. It's called the Big Bang.
Quote:Personally, I think the cosmos has always been, and therefore never really had to "arise" from anything.
That's not possible. Science tells us, by reason of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, that the universe is slowly running out of usable energy. If the universe "has always been here", then it would have run out of energy long before now. The fact that we still have energy proves that the universe has NOT always been here and that it had a beginning.
This is not religion; this is science.
