| Mystro-Sama said: Most Atheists i've spoken to dropped the smartass attitude after that question. Not to mention that they can't seem to answer the question of how an existence without consciousness can create an existence with consciousness. |
The big bang is as far back as we can observe our universe. A single point of massive energy that rapidly expanded billions of years ago. With our technology as it is we cannot see before that point. However, given how much we've learned past few thousand years have no doubt we will be able to better understand it as knowledge and tehcnology advance. Saying "I don't know" is not a weakness to me, saying "I don't want to know" is.
Second point is generally down to a reversal of logic. We have consciousness so hard for us to make sense of neutral natural forces such as gravity and electro magnetism. We projected across all cultures various super natural exlanations for these, and in time replaced those by understanding gravity didn't think, it just is. Now if you're asking how we could achieve consciousness again the reversal exists. Hard for us to imagine that our consciousness is a by product of our physical development. Species existed for millions of years with no need for the type of higher level abstract thought homo sapiens are capable of and without mass extinction events possible never would have come to past. Our large brains gave us a competitive edge and allowed us to survive and over time we slowly used those minds to create language, art, and civilization. Keep in mind it took our ancestors tens of thousands of years just to make use of fire or learn how to grow food; the past 300 years have seen the real explosion in our development with industrialization and ratcheting knoweldge.
