What to say when somebody asks about the big bang

[segevmoran]

This is my first actual post that is not a greeting.

I'd like to start out by saying that I am only sixteen years old; I know that it may seem irrelevant but I figured I'd just say so.

I have many atheist friends but some are religious. And being in the nature of friends, they will ask me questions about atheism. I'd also just like to know this for myself, because I am not entirely sure.

What do I say when somebody asks me about the Big Bang theory?

Anything from what happened before it, how did it start, etc.

I am aware that there is never a clear answer for this. I just would like to know if any of you have any quick and easy explanations for it.

Even if I, when asked this, cannot explain what it is, I can just turn it back on them. Ask them about the origin of God.

I want to thank you in advance for any future responses to this.

Have a fantastic Sunday. :p

Hi,


Hope you are well..

The big bang is a very broad topic..
But i can get your desire to know more about it..

The best advice I can give you, is start and learn about it.. read books, see documentaries, look at images and such..
The big bang argument is a well known argument theists usually use. Mostly, it is due to misunderstanding the idea behind the big bang...

The argument would usually be in the form of "How can an explosion create such complex things?"
Or the famous Boing 747 argument.. that saying the universe can be created from an explosion is the same as a Fully functional Boing 747 airplane will be created from an explosion..
 
In a nut shell:

The big bang theory was an Idea that rose after a discovery that the universe is expanding...
As more advanced telescopes were used, it was clear that the universe is growing and using special techniques (Like observing other light waves that are invisible to our naked eyes) to see the formation of the galaxies and stars in the past, we discovered that the universe was once much more dense...

Following this discovery, all things pointed to the fact that the universe was once a very dense point that in an instant burst started expanding to what we can observe today.
It is still a riddle what was there before the big bang, but assumptions vary and are mostly pointing to an energy that was there before.

After that, Some theories were made that if the universe is expanding, surely it will stop expanding at some point are start contracting again.. this was falsified with the discovery that not only that the universe is slowing down, rather the more distance we observe between starts and galaxies, the faster it spreads... 
As we don't really know what it is that pushes everything, we call it Dark matter.. but there is no idea yet what it really is.

Now... Regardless of the answers you know or not to provide, You can explain to your friends that the fact we don;t know something, doesn't mean that the claim of God is true...
So event if there is no proof for a Big bang.. There is not proof to God either.. so the best claim they can make is that Science is clueless as they are...
The difference is that science every day discovers more and more while religion remains the same