If you think about it how could there not be a god? The only other theory is that the universe started as nothing and then exploded. There has to be some divine being who created all this. People who don't believe in anything just aren't using common sense. amirite?

Who/what created the "divine being"?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If He is all powerful then he can time travel. which means he can travel back in time to before he existed and create himself, thus creating an endless loop of no beginning and no end.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

God is a timeless being. He is not in need of a cause, as any temporal thing like the universe is.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Even though I disagree with the post, God (or a god) is supposed to be far beyond human understanding. That's why they're a god and not a person. I've always been told "God is." And I can accept that because //he's a god//.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well, BLEH to you.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Says "freeweezy"...not gonna trust you...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

douche.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

can only blame yourself with a stupid username like that

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yeah, Anonymous, you're one to talk about a stupid username.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I started reading this thinking, "try to understand their side and be open-minded." But then I read it and thought, "there's a reason why so many people are disagreeing."

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Heck, I believe in God, but this is just bad logic.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The universe didn't start as nothing. It started as a massive amount of energy, with no mass, so it was focused into a tiny point. God then caused one of the four spatial dimensions to become a temporal dimension, and things could change. After 14 billion years, He made Earth. That's my theory anyway, becasue it's hard to deny all the science stuff, but I'm still Christian. I think all 'spontaneous' changes were done by God, and everything else was the consequence of His actions, and had minimal input directly from Him. Still, instability shows that there could also not be a God, but I believe anyway.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

^This is the only religious belief I am okay with. Though I still don't agree.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

For me, I just don't understand why atheists find it hard to believe in God because it's "far-fetched" but think it's acceptable to think that two pieces of dust hitting each other was a strong enough force to start the universe, and then where did those two pieces of dust come from? I'm seriously asking, what is an atheist's thoughts on that?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

you should try doing a little research, it's interesting what you might find (i don't mean that in a deragatory way). i don't remember all of the details, but the big bang is the expansion of the universe from one point. the evidence for tha today is that the universe is still expanding in every direction, or what science calls "red shift". the other thing is that the big bang is followed by the big crunch. this is where eventually the universe will collapse back into it's original form of a single point of energy where a new big bang would occur. essentially it's a process that will continue forever.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Yes I understand this but where do atheists think the Big Bang came from? Something had to have made that energy for the whole process to begin?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

that's really i double sided argument. thinking that way any athiest could point out that something should've been needed to create an omniscient deity. it's put that from either stand point, each is thought to have existed forever

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Hmm I still don't really understand, do you guys just consider it an unsolved mystery? I love science and I know that one of the main purposes of science is to figure out the why and how things came to form, while I am a Christian and fully believe God made it all so my wondering stops about that, I just want to know what atheists think the Big Bang came from. I'm sorry if I'm offending anyone I'm just actually really curious.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

i hope nobody was offended by a few questions, and to be honest, i'm not an athiest. that's why i'm not as adept as i'd like to be in answering you. others may think it different but i just think that it is something that science can't answer yet.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well thanks for trying to explain anyway :)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I half-agreed with you until the last sentence. I am a devout Christian and I totally see what your saying, but everyone has a right to their own religion and belief system. You can't just say someone isn't "using common sense" because they don't agree with you. That, my dear, is being very close minded.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This would have gone over a lot better if you did not end the post by insulting people who do not agree with you.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Because believing in a god is common sense.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Well, if you believe that there is no consequence for believing in a god that doesn't exist, but that there is a consequence for not believing in a god that doesn't exist, then yes, believing in a god would seem to be common sense. Then again, you may not believe any of that. EDIT: Okay, maybe not common sense, but the better option. Of course I'm not trying to say this is true, I'm just suggesting a possibility.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

You could have just said Pascal's wager, but that brings in a host of problems on its own. I see your point, though.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=11571150 I'm not going to try and argue with you, or say that Stephen Hawking is infallible, but I seriously doubt that the man lacks common sense.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Richard Dawkins Stephen Hawking Linus Pauling Alan Turing Peter Higgs Steven Weinburg Carl Sagan Daniel Dennett Steven Pinker The people listed above are all atheists. Why don't you go tell those brilliant people that they "aren't using common sense" because they don't believe in God, and see how well that goes for you.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This is a very narrow-minded post. People should be able to believe whatever they want.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Neither side is using "common sense" by your definition. You either believe that the universe "just was." or that some being "just was" and created the universe... I only agree more with the bing bang side because there is some scientific evidence to back it up. No matter which side you're on, you'll always sound silly.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

People who don't believe in god do believe in something. Most believe in science and the big bang/evolution.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

That's like saying a divine being had to have created a rock, because it can't just come from nothing, therefore, something HAD to put it there.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

"How can you believe that the universe came from nothing?" "Didn't your god come from nothing?" "That's different. He's magical."

by Anonymous 11 years ago

For the last time (although I'm sure it won't be because of idiots like you) those are not the only fucking options. Just because I don't believe god created everything, doesn't mean I believe in the big bang. I don't KNOW what happened, and I am content living that way.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

*insert witty comment mocking OP's definition of "common sense"*

by Anonymous 11 years ago