Question: @michael why do scientists think that the big bang created the earth and everything when there is obviously a creator to all of this stuff

Michael Rivera answered on 15 Nov 2016:

Great question and a very tricky one to answer as well.

First of all, I can understand your perspective – it is a bit strange to think that something can come from nothing. But we also should not trust our natural instincts, since our natural instincts have evolved over thousands and thousands of years to survive the wild. Our natural instincts and the way we believe in things did not develop so that we could understand everything about the Universe.

There are physicists who work on answering the very question you’re asking. They work in a field called ‘quantum physics’. On a very, very small scale (we’re talking smaller than atoms here), random events can produce matter out of nothingness, and create energy out of nothingness. This has been found to be true in physics experiments. There is a change that in another Universe, a student at a science fair accidentally twisted time and space as part of their project and created our Universe. That is definitely a possibility, one that is God-less.

I want to make it very clear that I do not think that just because the Big Bang did happen due to random sub-atomic events, that God does not exist. I think you cannot use science to either prove or disprove the existence of God.

However, the Big Bang did create the Universe out of nothing – that is something I am very confident in because of the evidence found by physicists and their experiments.

I hope that made sense!

Michael 🙂