It’s interesting how this post seems to be a snowball fight between those who accept a spiritual realm and a God, creator, existing and those who believe in only the existence of what “scientists” tell us is measurable. Either case has valid points but none are able to provide sufficient evidence.
History is not provable, it is only capable of being understood by faith in the evidence that we posit is a true reflection of the time period. So get over it, nobody can prove the big bang created the universe except by the same faith I use to state God created and arranged matter and energy into existence. The difference being purposelessness or purposefulness, having been reasoned into existence.
I don’t use emotion to guide my beliefs. Anybody that does may be getting fooled. I use science to validate my belief, and I have seen no science that has not validated my belief, only provided me with more evidence that the universe is divinely inspired and controlled by meticulous design. Until we start running “big bang” experiments and can create mini-universes in labs such as particle accelerators you’ll have no such evidence.
I think if this post does anything for a rational mind it should show how little each of us knows about the universe we live in, whether it be on the grand scale of the cosmos interacting or the miniature scale of quantum physics where we can only observe part of the particles behavior (where the other part operates in a different dimension).
You can use what we know about science (in the last few hundred years? or even last 100, or even last 10) to create faith in your own knowledge - or in parts of the scientific communities knowledge - as being sufficient to prove everything created is a self-caused existence, but I believe that to be a limiting theory as well. Because how much more is there to discover beyond matter and energy if there is a God?
We will be discovering for eternity, but each generation will only have a limited piece of the understanding of the future. Regardless of the scientific discoveries, none will prove fatal to theism, because the preface of creationism is that God created the very universe we are observing.
However, if there is someone who can show that non-living matter has generated living matter - then I concede to giving atheism some rationality for existing. Until then, the creation of biological organisms are just as much faith based as matter itself.
Nobody knows, so stop claiming to be sure of your own idiocy from your dusty books on the shelf. The brains capacity is like floppy disk trying to contain all the information on the internet. The words of the wise begin like: “the way I see the world is…” “the evidence I see gives me confidence that…” “what I find to be true based on my interpretations of the world and the application of science…”