Originally Posted by Quaildog:
best tell us all how the universe poofed into existence. ill bet you can't. neither can deep fossil. oh, deep can run to an atheist site and fetch a snippet about the big bang, offer it up as proof and he nor you are any the wiser. you are just bumping your gums and know nothing about mechanics of the BB Theory. you might as well claim God poofed it. you, academically dear, have no clue to make either claim.
When you look at both explanations, both involve a 'poofing' nature. 'God' did it or 'nothingness' exploded. Neither make much sense.
Actually it isn't that complicated but one thing is for sure and that is that we, mere Humans, with our severely limited abilities and intellect, either will not conceive of it or understand it. There may be one or two capable minds out there but for the most part everyone else puts their faith in someone or something and nothing innate is put forth. Just try and conceive and understand the concept of eternity, actual never ending before and never ending after, it's not a concept or thing that can be understood with our intellect but just has to be accepted.
Now regarding life, the Earth and the Universe around us I think it takes a lot more faith and effort to try and fashion all that out of "nothing" as in a Big Bang rather than to believe that everything came from, originated, and is maintained by some infinity intelligent and powerful, external source and force. The great problem with the latter is that it makes us (humans) responsible to someone other than ourselves and opens the prospect up that we will one day be accountable for our own decisions and that which we accept. You can play pascals wager over and over but ultimately it comes down to someone being right and someone being wrong and there either being an accountability or there not being. Mankind's spirit/soul/essence will either cease to exist past physical death or it will transcend into another dimension or realm and we will discover what awaits us in the coming life/existence. To just believe everything happened by accident (non-directed) then you have to assume or believe that things go from the most infinitely basic to the most infinitely complex. To believe that creation is valid and things are brought about out of infinite intelligence or from direction is to accept and admit that we just don't know and cannot know or conceive of how it happened or how it continues to be and that we are reliant upon someone or something else. As for me I know which I consider the most plausible.