Why do atheists get excited about the Big Bang when it points to a creation event?

Question

"As a theory relevant to the origin of the universe, the Big Bang has significant bearing on religion and philosophy. As a result, it has become one of the liveliest areas in the discourse between science and religion. Some believe the Big Bang implies a creator"

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

In the 1920s and 1930s almost every major cosmologist preferred an eternal steady state universe, and several complained that the beginning of time implied by the Big Bang imported religious concepts into physics; this objection was later repeated by supporters of the steady state theory.This perception was enhanced by the fact that the originator of the Big Bang theory, Monsignor Georges Lemaître, was a Roman Catholic priest.

Lemaître himself also described his theory as "the Cosmic Egg exploding at the moment of the creation"; it became better known as the "Big Bang theory,"

Creation (Definition)

noun: creation; noun: Creation;

the action or process of bringing something into existence.

•a thing that has been made or invented, esp. something showing artistic talent.
plural noun: creations

the bringing into of existence of the universe, esp. when regarded as an act of God.

Answer 1

The big bang theory doesn't rule out an eternal universe. Its "singularity" is just the zero time of the known universe, the point in the model where our understanding of what could have happened breaks down.



Spacetime is being created all the time. The big bang expansion is literally still happening right now! So this "creation event" thing is a useless self-serving term.



Maybe the universe did have an actual beginning. Then I guess Quetzalcoatl created it.

Answer 2

Why do atheists get excited about the Big Bang when it points to a creation event



- it does ONLY if you never got beyond 6th grade.

Answer 3

"Some believe the Big Bang implies a creator"



J.F. Harris apparently, according to the citation. Any reason I should care what he thinks?

Answer 4

So most people think that the probability of the Big Bang occurring and eventually designing us has extremely low chances of happening. However, in an infinite universe, it is theoritically impossible for it to NOT happen. If something is even possible, it has to occur in an infinite universe, we just got lucky.

Answer 5

Or Gods. You haven't disproven that a superior race of beings existed before this universe's existence, and that all that we know is nothing more than a middle school project by some superior creature so vast and incomprehensible that we think she is God-like, when maybe in her culture she is just a bratty, hormonal adolescent.

Answer 6

It's not a good sign that you have to go back to the 1930s to find scientists who agree with you. I suppose you also agree with them that the personal computer is a silly idea that will never catch on?

Answer 7

" Some believe the Big Bang implies a creator "

Not atheists



Thank you for playing.

Answer 8

It is correct that there is no big bang theory without the implementation of intrinsic values which biology claims to not entertain.

Answer 9

The bible was written by the same people who said the earth was flat.

Answer 10

The Big Bang does not say anything about how the universe began.

Answer 11

They only follow what their Book of Pages tell them.

Answer 12

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I feel bad that if someone does not have faith they would want others to agree with them!



How can the universe create itself out of nothingness? Given the fact that the universe began to exist, it must have had a “cause” that originated it.Doesn't it make more sense to assume the existence of a Creation. This statement is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that GOD came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell like?” Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, GOD is not in the category of things that are created or caused. GOD is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists.

We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing being is what we call GOD ,GOD is the un-caused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.



The universe requires a cause because it had a beginning, GOD unlike the universe, had no beginning, so he doesn’t need a cause. Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has much experimental support, shows that time is linked to matter and space. So time itself would have begun along with matter and space. Since GOD is the creator of the whole universe, he is the creator of time. Therefore He is not limited by the time dimension He created..



Life without GOD is like an un- sharpened pencil it has no point..

You can't see the wind, but you know it is there because you can see what the wind is doing. You can know that the wind is there because you can feel it.GOD is like the wind, you can't see him

Answer 13

whether big bang or any plausible theory they can't get away from a Creator as an explanation

Answer 14

It points to an event. You're just adding the word "creation" arbitrarily.

Answer 15

No it doesn't. There was no creation.

Answer 16

did not know that