(September 10, 2010 at 5:00 pm)Tiberius Wrote: 1) The Big Bang was the expansion of space-time. Nothing went "bang". The universe already existed in a singularity, without time (so there was no "before") and at the moment of the Big Bang, space and time started expanding, and the universe with it. So there was never "nothing", there was always "something".
2) Basic bacteria *today* have complex DNA. This is not true of the bacteria in the past. Complexity increases the more organisms evolve. The first living organisms were self-replicating cells that were most likely composed of RNA (the precursor to DNA). As for how they got there, you'd have to read up on abiogenesis, but it involves the early Earth environment being in the right state for life, and a spark of energy (possibly lightning) that formed the first chemical reactions that led to self-replicating organic material.
3) *Some* atheists say there is no God. *Most* atheists say they don't believe there is a God. There is a big difference in denying outright the existence of something, and simply not having a belief in it. I am the latter; I describe myself as an agnostic atheist. Agnostic in that I make no claims to "know" God doesn't exist, or that I can prove it doesn't. Atheist in that I do not believe that God exists.
I'm being honest, I think you always have the right answers to all of these Theist posts. Are you a professor, a scientist or just All-Knowing?
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
