(March 18, 2012 at 4:29 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: We don't and can't know what happened before the big bang - did it come from something that was there previously, did it come from nothing?
This is why atheists are close-minded. Theists are the ones on the cutting edge, not atheists. Atheists have given up trying to know.
Eventually, there will be a type of theism that comes from theoretical cosmology. They will have no other choice when after another hundred years they still can't explain gravity or why the universe is expanding, or what was happening before the big bang or the hard problem of consciousness.