F.A.S.T. said:
1) You die, and nothing happens...
2) You die, and go to heaven.....
If were wrong, it does no harm.
But If were right, and your wrong, there would be some serious consicuences...... (sp?)
I like to believe I will win a £3,000,000 jackpot in the lottery tomorrow night. The chances are I will still be poor Sunday morning.
The belief is a lovely thing, and it makes me happy making plans to spend all that money on Sunday, but I know in my heart, it's just not going to happen. Of course, there's a several million to 1 chance I may be wrong, and will actually win. That's the way I look at it. I just don't believe in the several million to one shot.
Snoo, I apologise for stating the big bang as fact, it's just that nothing as of yet can disprove it, and all the calculations and work done in the field by the cleverest blokes in the world for decades make it stand up. So it's the best shot.
I've read a few scientific journals, and they have theoretically calculated how to create a big bang. Matter from nothing. There are also multiple universes (theoretically) which feed into our universe. The collapse of one of these universes could be the catalyst of the creation of ours.
The problem with the argument is that science HAS to be able to stand up and have an answer to the religious.
Religion: The big bang theory fails because how can matter be created from nothing.
Science: We don't know yet
Religion: Then your theory in null and void as you have no answer.
The other side of the argument-
Religion: God created the universe.
Science: Who created God?
Religion: God is eternal, he has always been.
Science: But God cannot have been created from nothing?
Religion: God was not created, he is eternal.
Science: Give me proof.
Religion: We need not give proof, we are religion.
Religion always asks for science to prove it is correct, yet it requires no proof of it's own. Oddly, it is science which is open minded, all things are possible until proven otherwise - it's just that evidence towards one theory gives it a higher possibility of being correct than another, so science will chase that theory until it is proven or disproved. At that point, it moves on.