Atheists: Do you have any proof of how the universe began?

Question

I'm talking about the sort of proof you demand of the theists about the existence of god or gods. If you can't, isn't your ideal of creation of the universe an assumption, theory and/or faith?

Answer 1

Below is a reply that I posted for a question yesterday, I believe big bang, evolution, etc is also a belief system disguised as science. It tries to provide certain answers for people to wants to wilfully reject God, after all they also want to know who they are and how they came into existence. Since they cant have God in any of their beliefs they try to invent a belief system without God





Christians believe that everything came from God, atheists believe that everything came from a tiny dot.



Christians believe that God is eternal, atheists believe that tiny dot is eternal



Christians have God, atheists have tiny dot.



Christians love God and have relationship with God, atheists try to avoid God by using the tiny dot as an excuse.



Christians see God, atheists try to cover Him using a tiny dot, but they cant, they will constantly be exposed to God and one day they will meet Him face to face

Answer 2

I don't know how the Universe began, but I can see that it exists here and now, and I am in it.



Just because I can't tell you how it began, does NOT mean I have to accept "God did it" as an answer. That is just an appeal to the "God of the Gaps".



However, I can't understand most high level science anyway, but I think the scientific method is a better method for investigating the natural world, than a two thousand year old document that was written by a bunch of primitive goat herders, and has been transalated from several languages and cultures.



I don't understand how most medicine works, but if I suspected I had cancer, I would not go to a Shaman or a priest for a diagnoses, I would go to a DOCTOR.



If my car stopped running, I wouldn't take it to a church, I would take it to a mechanic.



Theology can answer questions about the MEANING of life, I look to science to explain the mechanics of life.

Answer 3

I don't make claims I can't back up. There are ideas and theories, but I feel it's better not to know than to delude myself into believing something that has no evidence. If someone tells me the universe was created by a bang, I want to see evidence (save your proofs for math class); likewise if somebody tells me there is a god I want to see evidence.



The answers should be varied. Atheists don't have some common agreement on how the universe was created; we only share a disbelief of dieties.

Answer 4

Why do I have to either explain why there's a Universe, or concede the answer must be that it was created by a god?



I don't know why there's a Universe, but an unexplained Universe is no less logical than a Universe created by an unexplained god, and I can at least see that there's a Universe.

Answer 5

i'm Pantheist. i've got faith that the universe originated while a singularity all of sudden prolonged hundreds of thousands of lightyears in some seconds and count and antimatter formed. the subject and antimatter then annihilated one yet another yet count survived via fact it lasts 0.5 a 2d longer than antimatter. Then, the universe prolonged and the subject condensed into the galaxies we've immediately. For those of you with out physics levels, i've got faith interior the enormous Bang.

Answer 6

I don't really concern myself with how the universe began. it's irrelevant. All that matters is that it exists and I'm here in the now, I don't live in the past.

NO ONE has any real proof or evidence of how the universe began anyways, it's all just theory.

Answer 7

I read a whole book once about Creation, it had a lots and lots of evidence to support it.

Evolving from apes, much more believable, really?

And how did this big band just happen? Where did the elements needed for this theory to work come from?

The Bible has held up to thousands of years of scrutiny,too.

Science is more accurate? Tell that to the millions of people who die from diseases our Scientists can't figure out.

Answer 8

Yes, there is a lot of evidence for the Big Bang. That is why it is such a strong scientific theory and has held up to so much scrutiny.



And FYI, it being a theory makes it much, much more concrete then an assumption or faith.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Observational_evidence

Answer 9

There is proof of the big bang, it's called Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation. Google it.

Answer 10

Distributed microwave radiation for a start.

Universal expansion.

Concentration of hydrogen and helium in the universe.

Nature of subatomic particles.



All evidence of the Big Bang.

Answer 11

Well the Andromeda Galaxy lies about 2 1/2 million light years from Earth. The light we see from it tonight left it more than 2 million years ago, when man was just beginning to emerge on planet Earth.

Answer 12

It is a theory with facts to back it up. Creationism and god are strictly faith with nothing, facts or otherwise, to back it up.

Answer 13

It's not faith when you admit that there are some things you don't know yet.



The thing is, though, that I can think of a number of phenomena that were once attributed to God that ended up having natural explanations, and not a single example of something attributed to God that has been proven as such.

Answer 14

Science is more acurate than a 2,000 year old book claiming that it was created by some god. No proof at all in that.

Answer 15

Do you know to conduct a successful heart transplant?



Well I guess God is conducting them. Not surgeons.

Answer 16

This atheist has none. The idea you describe is not mine. Atheism is not a religion. Atheists are individuals.

Answer 17

redshift of galaxies. cosmic background radiation, amount of light elements predicted.



atheists dont claim they know how the universe began, you guys do. You make the claim, you support it.

Answer 18

I have no problem with saying that I don't know how the universe began.



I don't try to make stuff up to explain it.

Answer 19

AL Gore started it didnt he?

I mean, he takes credit for other things that no one can explain

Answer 20

Read an article about the Big Bang. There are lots and lots and lots of evidence to support it.



Now, we don't yet know where the Big Bang came from but we are working on it.

Answer 21

In all honesty, does anyone know that answer? But evolution sounds much more logical.

Answer 22

Well we can see the Big Bang in radio waves: http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest3.html



There is more, but that is solid all by itself.

Answer 23

yah i have a video of it when i time traveled back there.



your god was busy sipping martinis as he watched over his other universe.

Answer 24

I took pictures.

Answer 25

get yourself a beginner's book of science and then you will not need to embarrass yourself by parading your ignornace

Answer 26

Nope. We have evidence, which is infinitely more than you have.

Answer 27

For all you "Big Bang" people, this is how it happened......God said "BANG" and it happened.

Answer 28

scientists do not demand proof, just refutable evidence...