(August 30, 2011 at 5:54 pm)Diamond-Deist Wrote: Thanks CoxRox.
Just to update you I am in the process of compiling some arguments that will be more structured for this discussion, as you can imagine this is not always a quick process but I will be back with some counter arguments and reasons of why there is doubt about the BB not just by me but by qualified cosmologists.
Paintpooper this is not to do with any ones religious views, this is pure cosmology, in fact settling on BB is probably easier for a typical Deist as it indicates a point of origin which would probably need a creation theory i.e what was there before the BB or what created the original particles/atoms to generate the expansion.
Spk soon.
Hence why I said watch Cosmos.
And if you say a creator created the first particles/atoms... then what created the creator.
Isn't the much more simplest explanation is that... it is what it is. The universe has always contained a finite amount of matter and energy and that will always be true. Accept that the universe... is the universe. No creation had to happen... it just is. This is the universe that we live in, period, end of discussion. No needs for creators because that creates an ending cycle of creation.
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