(March 19, 2012 at 4:02 am)Eyem4Christ Wrote:(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.
Not pretending we know something we can't know is not giving up trying to know. The root of discovery is acknowledgement that we still have much to learn.
(March 19, 2012 at 4:02 am)Eyem4Christ Wrote: Eventually, there will be a type of theism that comes from theoretical cosmology.
It would not surprise me.
(March 19, 2012 at 4:02 am)Eyem4Christ Wrote: 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.
'They' being people who would rather have a made-up answer than live without one.
