RE: A simple challenge for atheists
January 9, 2015 at 8:40 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2015 at 8:45 pm by Alex K.)
(January 9, 2015 at 7:53 pm)bob96 Wrote: I admit using the word "challenge" was pretty arrogant. I should have used the word question. I'm just wondering how people can believe it possible that "something" came from "nothing" or "was always just there".
Hey
I'd answer in more detail but I'm on the phone.
Several things: you probably want to use this question as support for belief in God of some sort. But if you carefully think about it, you'll find that it doesn't support that view at all. Whether you put God in the equation or not doesn't change a thing about your question.
That being said, we don't currently know what happened arbitrarily close to the big bang 13.7 billion years ago. It's not clear that time extends infinitely into the past. The definition of time itself becomes fuzzy and your notion of something having to come from something, is not necessarily meaningful. Causality is a statistical property of physics in our universe which you know and derive from everyday experiences. You can't even expect that anything like it is applicable to the universe as a whole.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
