• Question: if God doesn't exist how did the universe begin?

    Asked by ktr1998 to Amy, Grant, Martin, Shawn, Usman on 13 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Martin Archer

      Martin Archer answered on 13 Mar 2013:

      We don’t know how the Universe began, and maybe we never will as time didn’t exist before the Big Bang. But that doesn’t mean God has to exist. For instance in quantum physics we know matter can pop into existence just like that and we we’ve seen this. So some people think that maybe Universes pop into existence all the time and only some then go onto to grow big, develop stars, planets and life.

    • Photo: Grant Kennedy

      Grant Kennedy answered on 21 Mar 2013:

      I agree with Martin here, there is no need for a God or Gods to have caused the Big Bang.

      Invoking God to explain something we don’t understand is pretty common, but in the past has usually been explained by science later on. Like we originally thought that everything orbited the Earth because we humans were created by God, and we were so special that everything revolved around us. Eventually Galileo noticed that the moons of Jupiter orbited Jupiter, and that Venus had phases like the moon, and that it could all be nicely explained by us orbiting the Sun!

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