Originally posted by dj2becker
Anybody believe that the big bang occured? I don't believe it. I believe that the big bang is still coming...
2 Peter 3:10 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a [b]great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.[/b]
Well, the "heavens may pass away" but there won't be any
great noise as sound does not propagate in vacuum. For us, all is silent in space.
As for the Big Bang, I see it as science's version of the Creation event of monotheistic religions. But for the record I don't believe existence "began" with a Big Bang anymore than it did with God's sudden decision to create everything.
Both of these are, I think, errors arising from assuming that time is ontologically real, i.e., more than just a conceptual construct.
Just think of the absurdity --
Scenario #1 -- God suddenly creates the universe. What was he doing before this? And for how long? Was he on an extended coffee break? Must have been for infinity. Then suddenly -- perhaps bored with infinity -- he creates the universe.
Scenario #2 -- The Big Bang. Inflationary theory has traced the Big Bang back to a tiny fraction of a second from the Beginning. But what happened before this? Where did the material for the Big Bang come from? From nothing? The very idea of something arising from nothing is patently absurd.
I think both approaches to the riddle of existence do not satisfy. The only approach I know that comes close to satisfying is the one that looks directly at the possibility that something is fundamentally wrong with our understanding of time. We are deeply conditioned to believe in linear time, which means we assume that everything must have a beginning, somewhere. But there is something deeply absurd about this.