I believe it was caused by God; here's how: It is clear that something cannot possibly come from nothing because nothing is insubstantial. And so essentially there is nothing for the big bang to grab hold of in nothing, in order to pull out the primitive universe from that magic hat of nothing. In fact what you are left with is an irreducible quantum field which is effectively a conserved property, just like the pre-quantum conservation laws.
Creationist love conservation laws so that does not hurt our position at all. For it is clear that either two things can always exist: either God or the quantum field. You see a conserved object (i.e.
The quantum field) as a beginning, no matter how complex it may be. Yet if it were truly a natural beginning, it would be simple rather than complex; in keeping with the trend of physical reality. As the saying goes, the theory of everything would fit on o T-shirt.
In the creation of the quantum field, God has opened a door that no one can close therefore it is conserved. I have given no tricks, no sleight of hand game to my words with you yet for all my cogent remarks you are pleased to be reduced to mere word play & games for your rebuttal, but all your games will end on the judgment day. And just like those conservation laws it is impossible to break them and so creation does not exist (according to atheists).
And likewise because of the conservation of the quantum field; nothing is impossible and does not exist (and we believers agree since God always existed). Atheists play the same old game; it used to be that matter always existed because of the conservation laws but now it’s that the quantum field always existed. Yup the same old, same old; nothing’s changed but the names to protect the guilty.
But the quantum field like matter itself can be created by God. And since God knows everything, and can do everything therefore all the quantum randomness would unfold just as God had intended. And so God created the universe by creating the quantum field therefore atheists have merely moved the question from: who created matter, to who created the quantum field?
And so just like the bible says: God spoke and bang it happened. SPACE IS NOT NOTHING; both PAIR PRODUCTION & QUANTUM VACUUM FLUCTUATIONS happen within space (IN FACT YOU WOULD BE HARD-PRESSED TO SHOW THE ONES THAT OCCUR IN THE ABSENCE OF SPACE). So in reality it is quite beyond Empirical Science (i.e.
Observable by the scientific method) to claim that they can happen without space or time; you cannot show that to be so, reference the quantum foam as a medium of the fluctuations. The scientific method may seem to you as a caprice & merely human barrier compared to austere refinement of pure mathematics. Yet how else can we say that another mathematical model does not exist, unless we demand tangible evidence by some agree upon human standard like the scientific method.
So yes when you can SUCK OUT ALL THE SPACE AND TIME IN THE ROOM TO DO THE EXPERIMENT FOR WHAT YOU CLAIM then you can make that claim; So until then: Checkmate, game over, and you lose atheists: you lost the argument as well as your very souls. So do you think am I right or what? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFfCKy0nK...
You misunderstand how Christians who believe in Evolution and the Big Bang interpret Christianity. They think God caused the Big Bang and hence did create the Universe. They think the Bible is partly allegorical, so since parts which disagree with scientific facts cannot be literal therefore they must be allegorical (stories intended to teach a lesson rather than convey literal meaning).
This means the parts that disagree with science aren't lying, they're quite literally stories. Even the most hard-core literalists agree parts of the Bible are allegorical. When Jesus says in the Bible that he's a door, no-one thinks he means to say he's literally a door.
When he tells a story about two men building their houses on sand and rock, no-one thinks he means to convey something about houses.
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.