(August 1, 2013 at 3:50 pm)John79 Wrote: This is a question i have wanted to ask atheists (and anyone else) for a long time. I would like to understand what you believe is the cause of the universe and the world's existance. Obviously Christians moslems and others believe in creation, and I think its true most or all atheists believe in a big bang theory.
i have read some about this theory and I can't find where the cause of it is explained. What do you think?
Short answer is: I don't believe anything.
The long answer...
According to recent research, somewhere in the past the whole Universe was in one tiny dot. Back then, this dot just burst and went through a few states until it got cool enough for atoms to neutralize and form stars, galaxies, planets...etc.
Now, we have no way of finding out what happened before this dot-state. We can only measure the Universe after this dot-state.
What caused this dot? I don't know.
And I refuse to say there was a super-mega being that made it, because of the obvious question that arises right after that: where did this being come from? How did it get to exist? What does it mean to exist outside of the Universe? What does it mean to exist outside of spacetime? What does "before" spacetime mean?
