katie tully said:
Basically.
If you guys are willing to except that God has always existed, out of nothingness, and that he had no creator he just was... Then why is the concept of the Big Bang such a hard thing to accept?
On one hand these guys are like, GOD JUST IS. And on the other hand they're like 'BUT WHERE DID THE ENERGY COME FROM????'
Well, my personal belief is that the universe must be created by something. Let me explain why I believe that. If you look at the physical laws of our universe (Quantum Mechanics) you see that the universe is very finely tuned, and all the processes and laws all work in unison, supporting one another. If we look at the universe through that approach, the possibilities are almost limitless. There is only one limit in the universe which is the key to mine and many others understanding of the universe. That is the Conservation of Energy, and the Continuity Theory. (Both of which have been proven time and time again, through mathematics, science and theory.)
That is to say energy can neither be destroyed, nor created. And the total amount of energy in the world can never change. That is to say that there is a finite amount of energy in the world.
Now with that in mind (all of which is without a doubt accurate), we must question the purpose of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics which support energy. They all work in order to conserve energy, and that is their only function and purpose So we can now make one of two assumptions. Either they exist because of energy, or energy exists because they exist. In reality, that's a distinction without a difference. They are infact one in the same.
So, basically everything from mass, to radiation, to the laws of thermodynamics, to every function and particle in the universe comes down to one common unit. Energy.
But where did energy come from? The laws of the universe didn't come from energy, and energy didn't come from the laws of the universe. (Chicken and Egg)
So, prior to the Big Bang there was nothing. We can't say there was energy before the Big Bang, because the Big Bang is where the laws governing and conserving energy come into existence. So you have nothing. There is no universe even, without energy. (That is to say the universe in which we come from, can not possibly be created from a god within it.)
So the next method of understanding where energy and the laws governing and conserving it come from, is to understand energy.
What is energy? You can't really define energy, because energy is the definition of energy. It's power, it's force, it's a mover, and there is only a finite amount of it. Energy can sometimes function in a way which we can understand to be a "charge", and some foolishly assume that means that the total amount of energy equals 0. (But that is foolish) If you have one unit of negative energy, and one unit of positive energy, you have two units of energy. Not zero. (Some people just don't get that.)
Because energy can have a charge, we understand a bit about energy. What would happen, theoretically if you had a unit of energy that neither functioned in a way that we would call was "positively charged" or "negatively charged"? It's quite simple. It would not exist. That is because all energy in the universe has a value associated with it. All energy has a value, that if changed to zero, would mean that energy ceases to exist. But how was that value defined?
In theoretical physics, we can say as some do that if something has no value, in a non-existant universe, that is to say that the sum is 0, and the net or value of material in the universe is 0, then that universe can come into existance spontaneously. Ofcourse that universe would be very different to ours in which there is tangible, defined material. It would rather be a universe of nothing, in which nothing can exist, but at the same time, there is something there. There are infinite amounts of these universes, and as time progresses, some will either go back out fo existance, and some will later define new universes (like ours was).
Depending on the complexity of these net value of zero universes, they can have complicated relationships with universes defined by them, and they can also have very simplistic relationships.
(I'm not apt enough in mathematics to show how this can happen, so criticise it all you like.)
So what we see is that there are four types of universes.
1) A net value of zero universe, that is simplistic. (It does nothing)
2) A net value of zero universe, that defines another universe and has a simplistic or non-existant relationship with that universe.
3) A net value of zero universe, that defines another universe and has a complicated relationship with that universe.
4) A defined universe, that does not have a net value of zero. It is complicated, and it is made of tangible material.
So, what I'm saying is God is not a magic man with a beard that lives in the sky. No, God is a universe (a complicated one, that has a relationship with ours). Dun, Dun, Dun.