Quote (Cadet133 @ Jun 5 2010 03:30pm)
If "NOTHING" is the most entropic ultimate symmetrical state then it would be plausible to say that "SOMETHING" cannot come from nothing without an input of energy of some sort. Perhaps the input of energy came from a diety of some sort. Some atheists would argue that there was never a nothing to begin with and that something already had existed that caused the big bang. Isn't that the same logic that creationists have that GOD already existed?
Let's look at a couple scientific (ya, remember that?) facts:
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
The universe was at one point the size of a large marble that was
infinitely hot and
infinitely dense/pressurized (and hypothetically contained the same matter-to-empty-space ratio which the universe still does).
The universe itself is the only thing ever to travel faster than the speed of light (about
infinitely faster)
The universe is still growing (and presumably at the super-ridiculous-fast speed too)
What do these facts mean when considered together?
Nothing
But I reckon this thread is just another example in the history of humanity in how theists want to slap a 'God did it' stamp on it.
Since pretty much every non-humanitarian point religion has taught us in the last forever has been shown to be false, it's reasonable to say that they've got this wrong too.
What came before the Big Bang?
Probably a whole slew of shit we know very very little slash nothing about.