Atheists: Do you need faith to believe the universe came from nothing?

Science explains the big bang was not from nothing but from a singularity that was all the matter and energy in the universe compressed into a single point that then expanded rapidly! So in answer to your question it was always here! But why are BAD christians always claiming the big bang came from nothing?

Are they that ignorant? Did they sleep through school or is it that they know the truth but think they can twist it because everyone is gullible?! The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept the big bang and evolution!

Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”! Nice that christians and atheists can agree and laugh together even if it is at fundie expense! But behind the laughter is the despair at the fundamentalists striving so hard to destroy christianity by turning it from a religion to an ideology!

Mathematics *IS* provable. (In fact, it's the ONLY science that is.) And logic is a branch of mathematics, not a separate science. The first particle came into being when energy coalesced.

That's LONG after the Big Bang. Eons after. We're investigating Planck times after it now - the smallest units in which time comes.

Small parts of billionths of a second. The Big Bang didn't "start" - that would imply that it happened - then it happened. That's cretinist nonsense, not science.

It's possible (we can never know, because we can't know what the conditions "were" in quotes, because human speech is temporal, and we're talking atemporally here, so there's no actual language to use unless we "speak" math) that the BB was just a phase change. That the universe ALWAYS exists - but it changes phase from "time" to "time". Or not.

We'd have to be atemporal beings to even be able to contemplate what *could have* happened. Why do we believe something not even close to "the universe came from nothing"? Because there's no OBJECTIVE EVIDENCE (your claims about a god aren't evidence at all, let alone objective evidence) that there WAS anything.

So if there wasn't anything, there was nothing. Sorry if that doesn't sit right with you, but YOU chose the language to pose the question in, and that's how the one you chose works. If there isn't anything, there's nothing.

By definition. (Claiming that there was a god isn't evidence that there was something, it's evidence that you know how to make things up, and that's all there is - unless you're god and your word is law, then I beg to defer, your most High.).

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.