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What Caused the Universe to Come into Existence?
PJ Media ^ | September 16, 2017 | Edward Watson

Posted on 09/17/2017 6:49:17 AM PDT by Raymond Pamintuan

We know, to the best of our senses and instruments, that the universe exists. How did it come into reality 13.8 billion years ago? In other words, what caused the Big Bang?

Roughly speaking, there are two possibilities: “nothing” caused the universe to come into being or “something” triggered it into existence.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: aliens; bigbang; god; lotsofgods; multitheism; polytheism; staticelectricity; universe
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To: SouthWall

Let there be light.

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According to Asimov that would be correct and the answer to the last question.


21 posted on 09/17/2017 7:15:30 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Moonman62

The need for bacon.


22 posted on 09/17/2017 7:16:04 AM PDT by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: isthisnickcool

Who created God?

Someone was going to ask, nobody is going to answer.

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According to the New Testament, God’s father and Mary created God.


23 posted on 09/17/2017 7:16:39 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnhken4_-A0

watch the vid, you will realize how small you really are and the realization that this just didn’t happen it was created


24 posted on 09/17/2017 7:17:10 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: linear

Finally!


25 posted on 09/17/2017 7:18:48 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: isthisnickcool

1. God is eternal and not created. Even time is his creation.

2. The need for a first cause requires an eternal, omnipotent being to provide that first cause. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ways_(Aquinas)


26 posted on 09/17/2017 7:19:10 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: Lee Enfield

I think God would laugh at that one.


27 posted on 09/17/2017 7:19:22 AM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: Moonman62
According to the New Testament, God’s father and Mary created God.

You have either never read or never understood the New Testament. (It does not say that.)

28 posted on 09/17/2017 7:21:41 AM PDT by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: fhayek

Always existed implies at least on the dimension of time infinity and as finite humans we cannot really comprehend that. Therefore I think there is a bias for us to favour an actual beginning and eventual end to the universe. God can also be considered infinite so again our ability to comprehend that aspect is beyond us.


29 posted on 09/17/2017 7:23:48 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

Now answer this question: why are all the galaxies, including our own, moving toward the exact same spot at millions of miles per second? Or what is the Great Attractor?


30 posted on 09/17/2017 7:23:49 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Gil4

Threads like this really bring out the nutcases.


31 posted on 09/17/2017 7:24:15 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Don’t call Gil4 a nutcase.


32 posted on 09/17/2017 7:27:04 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Raymond Pamintuan
"If the “trigger” of the Big Bang was aseitically dynamic, it would’ve created an infinite number of universes before creating our universe."

Probably did. This one will expand until it runs out of momentum, collapse down into nothingness again, and then it'll happen again, automatically. Forever in both directions, repetitive, automatic, and without any particular agency. I don't know why people have such a hard time with this.

33 posted on 09/17/2017 7:27:05 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: trisham

It was worth the wait!


34 posted on 09/17/2017 7:27:13 AM PDT by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: Raymond Pamintuan; LUV W; Kathy in Alaska; beachn4fun
What Caused the Universe to Come into Existence?

When I asked my 2nd grade teacher the same question, I got this answer, that today, is so politically incorrect, it would have caused her to be immediately fired.

Bless her Heart and Soul she said, "GOD was playing with his Home Chemistry Set."

I can imagine now, that this causes laughter at 'the Pearly Gate Cafe' over an endless cup of coffee, every time it's told.
35 posted on 09/17/2017 7:27:52 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country)
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To: isthisnickcool

What existed before the big bang? Couldn’t have been nothing unless the big bang came out of nothing.


36 posted on 09/17/2017 7:27:54 AM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: linear

I couldn’t agree more!


37 posted on 09/17/2017 7:28:02 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Gil4

You don’t know what you’re talking about.


38 posted on 09/17/2017 7:28:29 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Raymond Pamintuan

Problem with most answers is they’re predicated on the notion of “before”. Time, as we perceive it, likely did not exist.


39 posted on 09/17/2017 7:29:22 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: babygene
it doesn’t exist at all in the form we imagine.

If it didn't exist at all, we wouldn't be here to imagine it at all.

Cogito, ergo sum.

40 posted on 09/17/2017 7:31:59 AM PDT by IronJack (sh)
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