Barotix wrote:You have 2 choices; either everything came from nothing (which is impossible), or something always existed and created us.
No, you don't have two choices. Atheism does not propose everything came from nothing [atheism or non-theism doesn't propose anything tbh]. The big bang theory doesn't propose everything came from nothing [there was a singularity iirc].
We don't know what everything came from
we just
know the process from right
after "everything came to be" to now. We don't know "what caused everything to be."
You may have two choices but
I have a multitude of choices. Nonetheless it is still philosophy&ideology you're arguing. Once you understand the Big Bang theory I think you'll see that there is no real conflict between Deities and the Big bang. Evolution, big bang etc has more than enough for
your higher being. IMO big bang should be renamed Universe Expansion and Growth Theory [UEGT]. Multiverse isn't so kind. >_>
What is the creater of these finite things
An explanation that is gaining ground is [iirc] multiverse theory
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OK then, lets focus on the events that happened AFTER the "big bang." I'm gonna ask you the same "simple" questions people ask creationist all the time.
we just know the process from right after
Was anyone there at the time the big bang occurred? Did anyone see it? Did anyone smell it? Did anyone feel it? Did anyone taste it? Obviously no, so then how do we know that the process that occurred after the big bang is correct? We will never have a way of knowing, this is why the big bang is still a theory. Now, what happened before the big bang, despite the choices you claim you have, something had to create something to bring us onto this point in time.
Events in the physical world aren't supposed to "just happen." Something makes them happen. Even when a rabbit appears convincingly from a hat, trickery is suspected. So could the entire universe simply pop into existence, magically, for no actual reason at all, and create intelligent beings and a powerful universe full of energy?
Now, back to the matter, time, and space argument.
If you exist without time, and time is the measure of change, that means you never change, in other words, there is no past, no future, just an eternal NOW. This is why the bible states: Hebrew 13:8 "God is the same yesterday, today and forever" because he has NEVER changed, and he never will change. He is god, he is eternal.
Now, if you exist without matter, that means you are immaterial, meaning you cant be touched, you cant be seen, you cant be smelled or tasted.
If you exist without space, your are inspacial, or omnipresent, you are everywhere, your not bound by spacial restrictions.
OK, something eternal, omnipresent, and immaterial, created matter, time, and space.
We all know matter, time, and space were created, and the only thing that can create matter, time, and space is something that has always existed without matter, time, and space which are the properties of a god..
Something without matter, time, and space means that it has to be omnipresent, has to be everywhere, and not restricted by spacial restrictions what is this?