Talking about the laws of thermodynamics, the second one says that entropy increases, but the reason why it doesn't happen on Earth is that the sun is pumping energy to Earth.
But what about the whole universe as a whole? Why is it still creating order? Should it not be falling into disorder? Well, that is a bit of a mystery. But that doesn't negate that the inflation (big bang) happened because there are other indications it happened.
And also, when it comes to "nothingness" before the big bang, you know, what we hear theists say is "atheists believe that nothing exploded". First of all, it's what astrophysicists say and not atheism, second is that the "nothingness" in question is not "nothing", but that nothing is known as what happened before the big bang. The known natural forces and laws were not at work BUT rather some other laws and forces that were also natural just different than those of what is acting now. For example, completely different laws and forces are acting inside the black holes and we do not have any idea what they are, but to say that they are not natural but supernatural is just a game of semantics.
But what about the whole universe as a whole? Why is it still creating order? Should it not be falling into disorder? Well, that is a bit of a mystery. But that doesn't negate that the inflation (big bang) happened because there are other indications it happened.
And also, when it comes to "nothingness" before the big bang, you know, what we hear theists say is "atheists believe that nothing exploded". First of all, it's what astrophysicists say and not atheism, second is that the "nothingness" in question is not "nothing", but that nothing is known as what happened before the big bang. The known natural forces and laws were not at work BUT rather some other laws and forces that were also natural just different than those of what is acting now. For example, completely different laws and forces are acting inside the black holes and we do not have any idea what they are, but to say that they are not natural but supernatural is just a game of semantics.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"