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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]..Who lit the fuse of the big bang, then you have it all figured out

I can't answer that, so the answer might be that God did

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I can answer that -- no one did. You are thinking of it as an explosion but remember that it is an expansion.  At the beginning of time, the universe is made up on only gases -- hydrogen and helium -- and gases expand.  It's an expansion of space, not an explosion of space.

The misnomer is that something cannot come from nothing but this is false. Negative and positive matter are constantly created from nothing although they generally cancel each other out.  But positive matter can bond to each other, creating a larger and larger positive matter (while a larger negative matter is also created) that led to the EXPANSION (not explosion) of the universe.

Anyway OP is clearly a humanist, which is fine.  There is no need to believe or struggle with one of man's many creations (and a relatively recent one at that -- the idea of one God is probably only about 2500 years old -- even the Jewish people originally believed in "Elohim" or many gods). Remember that God did not exist at the creation of the universe 14 billion years ago, nor at the creation of man in recent history.  God is one of man's very recent inventions, created after paganism, after holidays, after agriculture, after pottery and tools, and language and art.  Man's creation of any God is very new and man's creation of one god is even newer.   There is no need to struggle to believe an imaginary being that man created, any more than you should struggle to believe in the Easter Bunny.  That's absurd.

I recommend that you find a community at Machar -- the humanistic congregation in DC.  I think it is Machar.org. You can have ethics and morals and guiding principles in life without god, since these are fundamental beliefs that man also created -- god did not write the 10 commandments -- man did.

Best of luck.[/quote]

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