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Hmmm? 400,000 years ago?

Okay, let me see if I understand how this works?

In the beginning there was nothing?

And there was nothing for a very, very, very long time, almost forever?

As a matter of fact I guess it had been forever, right up until the time that "something" happened?

Then one day for no particular reason that anyone knows of "something" happened to "nothing" and it was the beginning of "everything."

As I understand it, that "something" is what "Evolutionary Scientists" now call the "Big Bang Theory."

So, where there was nothing forever, up until the Big Bang, then there was (almost) everything - Planets, Stars, Moons, Asteroids, Solar Systems, Black Holes, etc. All moving away from where the Big Bang took place at a very high rate of speed, mainly because of the big bang. Makes sense, right?

Then all of a sudden where there had only been darkness forever, (I guess because of the Big Bang), the Sun fired up “one day” and miracle upon miracles "Let there be light, there was actual "day"

And because there was light and heat, and with an indeterminate amount of Time (lots and lots of it) added to the equation chemical reactions began to take place, for no particular reason. And these chemical reactions created a prehistoric micro-organism which I'll just call Mike. Thus was life created.

Whoops, guess I skipped over a few things like the coincidental self-creation of all the building blocks of life, such as atoms, molecules, DNA, RNA, nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen and a whole bunch of other things all just the right mixture to provide an atmosphere on this big old thing we call Earth.

Anyway, so this micro-organism named Mike, I see it is ultimately the "father" of everything?

Recently, however the guy from the referenced videos below suggested that for some people, "Time" should be recognized as their preferred theoretical creator of everything. His supposition was (I think) that given enough time and with the correct ingredients anything is possible.

I don't know if it's true, but I have heard about another theory called "The Big Box Theory" that with a big enough box (a really big box), and the right parts in the box, that if the box could be shaken for long enough (Time) you could create, for instance, a Boeing 747 (just add gas), a computer, etc.

Sorry, but all that "Theory of Evolution" stuff is just too supernatural for my little pea brain. That requries too many miraculous coincidences without there actually being some sort of "plan." I just can't muster that much faith in the "Theory of Evolution" to become a believer. (However I must confess that once I was a believer, but realized that I had been scammed by people with an agenda and a theory with too many holes in it..)

Okay, if you have endured my snarky, amateurish, but very serious philosophizing about the "In the Beginning" and life and Evolution up to this point, "Thank you for your patience, my FRiend!"

Now if you really want to hear some really well reasoned “theories” about Evolution (or the lack of) take a few and give this guy a listen.

Maybe you can prove him wrong and restore my faith in Evolution, or time, or whatever. He makes a pretty good well reasoned argument for something besides Evolution.

In the beginning there was nothing?

In the beginning there was not only nothing, but nothing for nothing to exist in. There was nowhere for nothing to be. There was not even an ‘is’ because there was no ‘is not’.

Cosmologists tell us that the entire Universe with its billions and billions of galaxies of billions and billions of stars was all contained in a primordial thing called the ‘Singularity’, which was smaller than the period at the end of this sentence -—>.<-—

But they never tell us where the ‘Singularity’ came from.

Some say it is a ‘cyclical’ thing, in that the Universe will one day start the long and arduous march of the Great Falling Into the Singularity AGAIN, which it has done for a long, long, looooooong Time, perhaps many times, or at least a couple of times. We may be on our second trip or our billionth trip.

Some say the Universe will END at some point when all the stars are extinguished and they fly off into the cold, dark void where the temperature will be ABSOLUTE ZERO, and all matter just falls apart into its constituent pieces like quarks and muons and stuff that nobody has names for yet.

They argue amongst themselves these two scenarios BUT NEVER ANSWER THE QUESTION:

WHERE DID IT ALL COME FROM?

If you point to the chair they are sitting in and say, “That chair just came into being and all it’s parts, wood, steel, fabric, nuts, bolts, screws, staples and wheels just came together in the form that it is now.” They would call you crazy and a lunatic.

But if you say the entire Universe did the same, they will call you a ‘Wise and Learned man’, and give you the skin of a dead sheep with your name and some fancy writing, and sometimes pictures, on it.

BTW, my name is ‘Mike’..................................