Hollywood anti catholic bullshit needs to stop

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VGPolyglot said:

epicurean said:
For those talking about the Big Bang - I'm interested to hear the atheist view of what caused it/how it happened. I know this is purely ideas without facts, but the idea that the universe exploded into existence from basically nothing seems very...powerful. I'd love to hear your theories.

My view is that I don't know. Obviously we don't know what happened or how it happened, and I don't get why it's so hard to accept that with our current knowledge we don't have all the answers, and why there's a need to fill in the gaps with information that hasn't been confirmed.

This is an important point. When our knowledge is insufficient, it's easy to put "god" in as a placeholder to explain things away. The problem is that this results in complacency in the idea that god did it, and that's an acceptable answer for some. 

But if you leave a question unanswered, and don't just put god in there, you'll have people come along and try to answer those questions. This can be seen in the works of a man like Isaac Newton and Galileo, among many others, who had the capacity to solve many problems, but stopped short at the majesty of god. Tyson did a presentation on this topic and it was quite enlightening.