(September 11, 2014 at 2:16 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(September 11, 2014 at 12:18 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: The two commonly held opinions are “from nothing, God created everything” and “from nothing, the Big Bang created everything”.Couldn't read past this, as it seems you are headed to the big unknown, wanting to say something about what we don't know.
What is this "nothing" you speak of?
How do you know there was nothing "before" the big bang?
How do you know there was a "before" the big bang, if the big bang gave rise to space-time itself?
If there's no "before", then how was there "nothing"?
Yep, that too.
Saying the big bang happened isn't claiming everything came from nothing; it's simply stating the current state of scientific understanding. We don't know what was before the big bang or where the energy of the big bang came from. I don't think it was 'nothing,' but I'll honestly admit I don't know what it is.
And that's kinda the basis of science: we acknowledge what we don't know but we still try to learn.
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama