I think its bacteria that created us...the big bang is a theory about how the planet earth came to be...not how man came to be

my answer: God caused the big bang!

Not one scientific answer yet? I'm disappointed AB. I was really hoping to get a good debate started with that question...I am let down :'(

i farted that is what caused the big bang then i took a shit and there was god

there is evidence of a big bang. when people express belief in a big bang, it's because there is some evidence. what happened before the big bang, or what set off the big bang is up for debate (and intense investigation). but that's another question. in other words, what caused the big bang, and the event itself are two different things. when people say god did something, or created something, it's a unscientific cop-out. there's no evidence for that. one could similarly say a black man in a leotard eating a twinkie on another planet did it. does that advance science or understanding of the universe. oh god did it?? we don't need to investigate anymore... lol

people also say energy cannot be created or destroyed then ask who created god. some people cant put 2 and 2 together.

It might be that the Big Bang occurred because it could. There was potential, and it happened. Honestly, we don't know. That's the difference between science and religion. We can say we just don't know yet. I'm not certain that what you probably have in mind when you say "caused" would be appropriate for that event, since the Big Bang is thought to be the beginning of not only matter and energy, but of space and time as well. In any event, I don't think believing in the Big Bang necessitates the kind of faith required for belief in a god.

Everyone will give their own hypothesis and no one will have conclusive proof in the big bang or about God!That's because to have faith in God we must have belief in his unrequited love.But when the question comes of His existence it becomes very sticky issue.Both those things are a matter of belief only. If I give you my explanation you may have to take it with a pinch of salt if you are a scientist and if you are a believer the heckles are raised. The creation happened at a point source. The point kept on expanding and at one time it had to give way which we call as the big bang. Now the question of God comes into the picture, where does He come in? He is called the Super Consciousness. His power of creation is beyond anyone's ken. It is just like the thoughts and the working of the mind. One thought leads to another and a time comes when everything expands to a large extent and explodes into a creative form. Just like a balloon. I will stop here. These are not my theories but what I have read in some ancient texts. Thank you for your patience!

Possibly a black hole sucking in matter to the point where it could not contain itself any longer- then- boom! Creation of a new universe.

i dont know? i wasnt there. you can only believe half of what you see, and half of what you hear...

well, i don't believe in the 'big bang' THEORY. i don't believe that a whole universe, that human knowledge could all have come....from a primitive cell. they like to argue scientifically, i think that makes me not believe it even more.

a big bang is the reaction that a supernova has when it collapses on itself, which in theory created a massive black hole (it imploded) and then scattered pieces of a possibly immense planet nearby across the universe. Then they probably got sucked into a stars gravitational field. that put asside ... i still cant figure out how an entire galaxy can stay in the same position and retain its shape for so long.

I put some silverware in the microwave...... You're welcome.

Big bang and Creator; Science and Religion. =========== ========================== Once upon a time, 20 billions of years ago, all matter (all elementary particles and all quarks and their girlfriends- antiparticles and antiquarks, all kinds of waves: electromagnetic, gravitational, muons… gluons field ….. etc.) – was assembled in a “single point”. And after there was a “Big Bang”. The scientists wrote very thick books about this theory. But nobody wrote the reason of the “Big Bang” because nobody knows it. I know the reason. The action, when the God compresses all Universe into his palm, we have named " a singular point". And action, when the God opens his palm, we have named the "Big Bang". ============ ==============. The Catholic Church adopted the theory of Big Bang as a good proof of God existing. And Pope Pius XII declared this in 1951. http://discovermagazine.com/2004/feb/cover/ Now we have unity between Religion and Science. Alleluia !!! Alleluia !!! Alleluia !!! But it is strange,…… why cannot we hear the happy sounds of Scenic’s /Church’s bells? =============. Best wishes. Israel Sadovnik. / Socratus. http://www.socratus.com http://www.wbabin.net/ http://www.wbabin.net/physics/sadovnik.pdf =========..

We'll be a step closer to finding out when the Hadron Collider comes back online. That is, after all, one of it's primary goals. To find the Higgs particle. That in itself could cause grief for religion and science. Suppose the Higgs is the most base particle. The often called "God particle". And man caused it to show up or provide evidence of it's existence in a collider? Would that then make man god or god man? Or will people pass it off as the apprentice learning the magicians secrets? The result is gonna be interesting.

Dear Spengo, there is one BIG difference between you and the people who know and accept the Big Bang Model: they were not raised to believe in such scientific hypothesis, conversely you were taught by mommy and dad and Sunday school that there is an old man who made it all. If someone accepts the explanation of the Big Bang (an idea originally devised by the French priest, Georges Lemaître) they do so not as faith, not a "belief" but a satisfying explanation (reasoning), far better than our creation of a supreme human-like being. What caused the Big Bang? What caused God? The Big Bang can not even answer all the questions raised by scientists, but there is a lot of EVIDENCE of it. How much EVIDENCE is there of a God? The Universe created by Science is far greater, beautiful, complex and awesome that the little universe set up by the Jewish bible, just check http://discovermagazine.com/2004/feb/cover/?searchterm=before%20the%20big%20bang

The big bang is something we have evidence for, so we can ask where it came from. Since we have no evidence for God AT ALL, then it makes no sense to ask where he came from... except to say someone's imagination.

We don't know, yet, what cause the Big Bang. But theists don't know what caused God. So, on the argument of First Causes, theists and atheists start equal. You cannot say "there must have been something that caused the Big Bang" unless you also say "there must have been something that caused God". We know, by observation, that the universe exists. There must have been some First Cause; without further evidence, the Big Bang and God are equally possible. So then we look at the evidence. And, in scientific terms, there is massive evidence for the Big Bang, whereas there is only anecdotal evidence for God.

Using the same logic my question is, "Where did God come from?"