RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
September 17, 2021 at 7:26 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2021 at 7:26 pm by Rahn127.)
At some point, the couch I'm comfortably sitting on began to exist. The raw materials it's made of existed before the couch did.
My couch wasn't created. It was built over time using existing materials.
Those existing materials had a beginning as well. Their beginning was natural. They weren't created. (Meaning that they didn't magically come into existence.)
Cosmology gives us a fairly good time line for when the first atoms formed. As the universe continued to expand and cool, things began to happen more slowly. It took 380,000 years for electrons to be trapped in orbits around nuclei, forming the first atoms.
The universe as we know it formed over time in a natural process. The energy of the universe exists. I don't know of a time in our past when it didn't exist. Where would it go ?
My couch wasn't created. It was built over time using existing materials.
Those existing materials had a beginning as well. Their beginning was natural. They weren't created. (Meaning that they didn't magically come into existence.)
Cosmology gives us a fairly good time line for when the first atoms formed. As the universe continued to expand and cool, things began to happen more slowly. It took 380,000 years for electrons to be trapped in orbits around nuclei, forming the first atoms.
The universe as we know it formed over time in a natural process. The energy of the universe exists. I don't know of a time in our past when it didn't exist. Where would it go ?
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