Aside from the fact that that was an extremely inaccurate description of the Big Bang (which was neither an explosion nor the beginning of the Universe (although the term 'beginning' may wrong to apply to the Universe because time may not have existed before the Big Bang (which in turn would make this usage of the word 'before' meaningless, but I digress))), it is to me an extremely poor reason to believe in a god. Are you seriously saying that you believe in god partly because there are some things science can't explain? Is that something you do every time you come across a phenomenon that can't be explained? Assume that god is behind it? Learn the lesson of history here: Up until the 19th century it was common to believe that god had created all the animal and plant species individually, for the large part because nobody had come up with a plausible mechanism that could explain the diversity of life without a divine designer. Then Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace came along and established the Theory of Evolution. People have attributed all sorts of things - sickness, the rainbow, the motion of the Sun and the planets etc. - to god, and one by one, science has found natural explanations for them. The fact that there are still gaps in our knowledge, says nothing more than that there are still things we don't know. There's no reason to believe that god hides in any of the gaps. And just because you find the Big Bang Theory to be illogical (whatever that means) doesn't make it wrong. Science and logic don't always coincide. For example: Most people would find it illogical that a feather and an elephant fall at the same rate in a vacuum, but it's still true. Similarily, finding the Big Bang Theory to be illogical is a poor reason to reject it and explain the formation of the universe with 'god', which explains everything by explaining nothing.Rsandee wrote: A quick bang from nowhere seems illogical to me, even more illogical than a God.
So you only believe in god because you think you have nothing to lose by doing so? Do you have any real reason for believing in god, then (by that I mean evidence), or have you just forced yourself to believe because you think you might go to heaven because of it? Do you really, in your heart of hearts, believe that yahweh actually physically exists? I suspect that you really don't believe it, but that you are afraid to admit this to yourself.Rsandee wrote:If I don't believe, I die.
If I believe, and God exists, I go to heaven.
If I believe, and God doesn't exist, I die.
). Just continue the discussion in the religion topic.
