RE: My daughter wants to know....
January 18, 2017 at 10:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 18, 2017 at 10:07 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(January 18, 2017 at 9:17 pm)Nymphadora Wrote: She thinks drugs are nasty, along with cigarettes and alcohol.
Well, I was an Honor Roll student too. I was in All AP classes, student council, sports, etc.
I told my parents the same thing.
As for the questions, seriously, I would congratulate her on being skeptical. Questioning things honestly is the path to truth, but the thing is you cannot forget the honest part.
Turn it into a conversation where you only tackle one thing at a time.
So if the question is, where is the evidence for the Big Bang, learn about it together. See if the evidence available is convincing. Not to appeal to authority, but there are plenty of astrophysicists out there that have forgotten more than I understand about the cosmos, and they are pretty convinced that this is the best explanation we have.
I would start with the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Here's a pretty cool explanation in layman's terms.
https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/bb_tests_cmb.html
ETA: Actually a better place to start is to learn what scientists think the Big Bang actually is. Start from there and build outward.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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