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In reply to the discussion: Does the Big Bang breakthrough offer proof of God? [View all]politicman
(710 posts)Honest question:
Although I love seeing the benefits of science (and science has improved our everyday lives immeasurably), I cannot grasp my head around the fact that everyone thinks that science can or will ever be able to explain how we came to be.
I say this because of the simple fact that everything has a beginning, something just does not come from nothing.
We are told the universe exploded into being from a single particle, but what will never be able to be explained is how the void that contained that particle existed in the first place. And even if they find a way to explain that, then it just brings up the question of how whatever was before that existed.
So whether one wants to believe that a higher being in God created the original 'whatever it is' that existed before the big bang OR whether one wants to believe that the 'whatever it is' that existed before the big bang was just always there with no starting point as to how it came into existence, I see no difference.
We could never ever have absolute proof of how the 'whatever it is' before the big bang came into existence (and what was before that and before that and so on), and we could never ever have absolute proof of a higher being.
Both options rely on some sort of faith in something that can never be proven.