<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Justice @ Jul 4 2006, 02:26 AM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I don't really believe in a god, but I really don't believe in the big bang either. What you're proposing is a simple either-or fallacy. You either believe in God, hell, satan, and Co., or you believe in the Big Bang. There's no other possible explanation for existance. That's not really accurate at all. Some people don't believe in either, and I know this sounds silly, but some people believe in both.Science isn't always right the first time. In fact, usually it's wrong for a very long time until somebody figures out the mistakes made in the original theories and finally creates something with scientific backbone. Darwin wasn't completely correct about what he wrote in
The Origin of Species. He had some things right, and he had some things wrong. It's still a theory, and it probably always will be. There is no test so far that has come up with the same results every time to prove it true. The reason it is considered scientifically fact by some people is because there were other people around Darwin's time piecing together a similar theory. Other people came to the similar conclusions about how species relate, and still do today.In the same vein, the Big Bang is a theory. It's not a law, but an idea that some people have for a possible explanation for what could have happened. There's probably a lot of concepts they have wrong, and a lot of pieces missing. The reason a lot of people take this theory as fact is because they see a deductive pattern. Scientists have found that the universe is expanding. It stands to reason that before, the universe was smaller. Their idea is that if you keep going back, eventually you would find that the universe was extremely dense (your claim that before the Big Bang happened there was "nothing" is not what most scientists believe, I don't think). Science is not about being right, it's about finding what is right.I was Christian for nearly 15 years, so I've seen both sides. I personally don't put all my faith in science, but there is validity to some of it. The reason I stopped putting faith in God is because it stopped making sense to me. I found that I was stretching my reason to allow myself to believe in something. If anything, I'm apathetic now. Agnostic would be a pretty close description of me, if I liked the term. Some people believe God does everything, and some believe he does nothing. The thing that bothers me about it is that there's no proof that he really has a hand in it, to me anyway. When someone dies of cancer, they say, "Well God chose to bring them to heaven!" and when they live they say, "Thank God for letting them live!" It's just vague and banal to me. If your family chose not to let you live, you wouldn't be happy about it. Why does God get that courtesy? Well he's God, duh! To me it's not fair or logical, but whatever.</div>I read it all just to let you know. :happy0144: JustBlaze, you can't debate with anyone if you always think you're right and can't listen to what they say either.
