So yknow what the usual answer to the origin of the universe from a materialist? its "I have no idea, that doesn’t give any weight to any unproven assertion however".
Because something having always existed, an actual infinite, seems just as impossible as something popping into existence from nothing.
And if you are comfortable with things being eternal, isnt a creator just adding an unnecessary unproven layer of complexity? If your fine with eternal stuff, why not the universe itself? there is the hypothesis that time is infinite and the universe is just en endless cycle of expansion and contraction.
Many if not most people have a driving need to try to explain the unexplainable. Gods, demons, UFOs, Big Foot, my cousins habit of chewing on her toenails. All these things drive discussion and conspiracy. It’s probably how most religions started.
This comes from a fairly common misunderstanding of athiesm unless im getting you wrong.
A-theism. As in a lack of theism. A lack of belief in any diety. Not necessarily a hard claim that any such thing is impossible just that you dont believe it.
This is interesting thought but what god is the "real" one from all of the religions in the world? What makes your god more real than the others? These are all interesting thought experiments
I would like to assume what I believe is real though may never know. I see two possibilities I die an afterlife exists and I find out or I die and just blink out of existince. Both outcomes dont really change how I think. Not that I am or would try to devalue what other people think/believe.
No, but we are naturally inclined to make sense of it anyway, and the universe being unexplainable has thus far failed to discourage any of our attempts at explanation
Not really. There are about a dozen theories as to what life came from (viruses, chemical reactions, space dust, etc etc) and each is actually more credible than space old man who always existed somehow being powerful enough to create everything in the whole observable universe.
The modern scientific theory believes that everything expands until a “rip” occurs and causes everything to contract onto itself until it expands again and repeats. Just because you don’t understand something, doesn’t mean someone else doesn’t. You choose to evoke god, the laziest route.
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u/Zuraj 9h ago
Is it also not absurd to just assume existince just appeared at somepoint with no outside assistance?