Why don't you believe in a god?

[highwaystar101]

theARTIST0017 said:

Armads said:

What makes you think you have free will?

God or not there is no such thing as free will, the timeline of the universe is determined at it's very beginning (though that's not the beginning of time, just the universe, the big bang is the beginning of our universe because any event before the big bang would not have any effect on what happened after that event so therefore it is irrelevant to our universe just as our universe will have no effect upon the next one after the big crunch and next big bang.)

Oh and your bit about people not changing is totally wrong, people changes religions and belief systems all the time.  I was raised Roman catholic, studied buddhism breifly, then settled on an atheistic worldview which accepts logical assertions such as panpsychism versus eliminative materialism; either one is logically sound so I accept them both as possibilities. 

Studies show less than 1/2 of all Americans stay with the faith they were brought up in, most change once or twice in their lives.

No such thing as free will? You seem delusional.

BIG BANG THE BEGINNING? AND YOU CAN BRING ME PAPERS (FACTS) TO PROVE THIS "BIG BANG THEORY". Dude its called the Big Bang Theory for a reason. 

Yeah people change but most likely if you are raised a  certain religion, that is what you will stick to because its 1. what you know and 2. what you've believed your whole life.

He said that the big bang was the start of our Universe, which I think you'll find all the evidence points towards. I'll risk repeating myself, so I'll just keep this short and if you need anymore information either look back at earlier posts about the big bang or research it yourself by reading scientifically valid peer reviewed work.

We know two facts, the Universe is expanding and it has existed for a finite amount of time.

How do we know the Universe is expanding? Because a man named Edwin Hubble made a series of painstaking calculations of the movement of galaxies over the course of a decade, determining the data by calculating the shift in apparent electromagnetic frequency as would be predicted by the Doppler effect. If it shifts towards the red end of the spectrum, the galaxy is moving away, and if it is blue it is moving towards us.

Lo and behold, every observed galaxy is in redshift. In other words they are all moving away from us and each other. Hubble's observations can only lead to one conlusion, the universe is expanding. Look at my earlier analogy of the dotted balloon.

This is called hubble's law, and it is a solid fact (you said you wanted facts).

We also know that the Universe has existed for a finite amount of time.

The first fact supporting this is the observed evolution of galaxies. As light reaches us from distant galaxies (so we see them as they were billions of years ago) we can see that there is a progression in the form of their structure.  This leads us to conclude that galaxies could only have existed for a finite amount of time, and we can track their evolution from primitive galaxies to modern galaxies.

The second fact is the abundance of hydrogen. If the Universe has existed for an infinite amount of time the vast majority of hydrogen would have have been used up in the fusion of atoms in stars. Yet the fact remains, hydrogen is extremely abundant.

 

Given these two facts (expanding universe, finite time frame) we have to conclude that our Universe was at one point a singularity. And if you rewind the expansion model over the finite period of time you will see that our Universe had to of begun as a singularity.

I'm not going to pretend I know what happened before the big bang, or what caused it; but I can tell you that the facts show that our Universe started as a singularity and expanded from there, otherwise known as the big bang.

 

And you also need to look up the definition of scientific theory before you try to challenge one. It is not the same as the common use of the word theory. A scientific theory is the explanation of a series of facts based on evidence.

In other words, a theory is evidence and facts, and not "guesswork" as most creationists seem to think.