Soundwave on 01 September 2014
| smakz said: This whole thread is detailing a very old "god of the gaps" argument, whereby the believer asks the non believer a question the non believer doesn't know the answer to, and therefore concludes God must exist because he doesn't have an answer. It is a very old argument, that has been weakened considerably over the years. Originally people would ask, "how do you explain the sun? Don't know? God did it" and so worshipped the sun because it was a mysterious thing. Then people would ask "how do you explain man? Don't know? God did it", because evolution was not understood. As the scientific method has answered these questions, there have been fewer and fewer places to turn. Asking what happened before the big bang is one of the last refuges of this line of questioning. You have to realize that it is no different then any other question you could possibly ask that we don't know the answer to. You might as well as "What made you choose a red shirt today over a blue one? Don't know? God did it.". Specifically about what came "before" the big bang, the answer is likely scientifically unknowable. The scientific method involves having a hypothesis, making an experiment to either validate or disprove the hypothesis, and running the experiment to test the theory. All the laws of our universe, including time itself, where created during the big bang. Our entire basis of experimentation and validation are based on those laws, and form the basis for the language we use to communicate knowledge. Asking us to explain to you what happened before the big bang would be like asking an English speaker to explain something in French. We don't have the language to do it. |
I believe God made this post. Seriously though, a nice, well reasoned response.
