(June 11, 2015 at 5:09 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(June 11, 2015 at 5:03 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: If absolutely nothing existed prior to the Big Bang, why did it happen and where did all this "stuff" come from?
He didn't say nothing existed prior to the big bang. He implied, I think, that space and time as we understand it began at the big bang; asking what happened before that point is attempting to extend our current causal framework back before it existed, which is a nonsensical idea. The short version is that we don't know what came before, or even if "before" is a concept that means anything; we are discussing a form of reality that is like nothing we have ever experienced, that literally lies outside of anything we have ever known, that requires a completely different language to discuss the concepts we might find there, as our language is necessarily temporal in its construction. You're probably not even asking the right question; there's a very real possibility that it's impossible for you to ask the right question in a currently extant form of language.
Now, I do have a question: you asked this question about what lies before the big bang in response to a post that asserted that saying evolution concerns life coming from nothing is a misrepresentation. I think I know what ridiculous point you're getting at there, but I figured I'd ask first: why did you do that?
I'm personally okay with evolution. I think God used it to get us to where we are today.
I'm just wondering why anything at all exists if there was a "time" in which nothing at all existed except a "singularity" (whatever that is).
Why did the singularity change from being a singularity to being the universe?
When an object moves, we assume a cause of the motion, don't we?
Everything that begins has a cause. The universe obviously began. So, the universe has a cause.
What was it?
