RE: Atheism = Desperation
November 2, 2014 at 6:52 am
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2014 at 6:54 am by miniboes.)
(November 2, 2014 at 5:26 am)AtlasS Wrote: Then how was it created ? believe me I heard many people tell about this random thing, if your answer is "we don't know yet", then it's the same religious answer i have for many other things.
We are not a 100% sure. This does not make it 'the same religious answer' as we do not make claims of being sure how it began. Religions claim 'God did it', 'Allah did it', etc. We only say 'We think it's most probable that this happened based on the evidence we have'. In contrast to religious claims, the Big Bang theory actually has scientific evidence to back it up.
I'll try to explain it a bit, but I'm not a physicist. I recommend looking up a talk or book of Lawrence Krauss if you want to know more. Basically, we know that if matter and antimatter collide the result is nothing. However, nothing is not really nothing. If you weigh nothing, take out all the particles, it still weighs something. There are still chemicals in nothing, and if they collide it is possible for them to create matter and antimatter.
"However, I don't think I am really qualified to talk about nothing because theologians are the only true experts of nothing." - Lawrence Krauss
That's a very crude explanation, sorry for that. Keep in mind that even if this is not the case that does not prove your god, or a god for that matter, exists. It only shows we don't know yet. The claim of atheism is not 'there is no god', although some might claim that, it is merely the rejection of the claims made by religions.
As far as humans and other lifeforms go, evolution explains that very well.