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Re: 6. Which is why the word believe should have nothing to do with Science. The Big Bang Theory is a description based on observation, evidence, math, physics, etc. about what may have happened in the early part of this observable universe. I don't believe it, and neither should you. And neither should anyone else including any scientists. Not because it isn't true, accurate, or not contain any element of Truth, but because it does not require belief. Its a theory not a belief.
There may never be scientific answers to all of the questions we have about life, the universe, and everything. To believe you have any of those answers is belief.
Re: 7. Is this an appeal to authority?
Re: 8. A common misconception about the Big Bang Theory (BBT) is that before the Big Bang there was nothing, then an explosion which eventually cooled and coalesced into the Universe as we perceive it. What happened before the expansion of the Universe is currently unknown and maybe unknowable. NO ONE KNOWS - not me, not you, nor anyone else. To claim otherwise is to lie. To think otherwise is delusion.
Epicurus would agree. We don't know all the information (and who knows how much we don't know about the origins of the Universe) so best not to make a decision regarding it yet.
Science will probably never answer all our questions. And its okay not to know. In fact, its better not to know because it makes existence far more interesting.
Kant had a point: no one can know the real world while he claims to know something about it...
Scientists have pretty much shred the view that we can know the world trough our senses.
9. The interpretations and explanations provided by science come, mainly by way of our observations, and a few instruments. Human observations. But birds and bees communicate within the ultraviolet portion of sunlight… a part of the spectrum that humans don’t see. Ultraviolet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a. And eyesight is our most important sense. It provides the majority of our sensory information about the world. Consider how much less we’d know if we had no eyes. Even so…we’d probably feel that we knew everything about our surroundings. But we don’t know about the world in ultraviolet. Or in infrared. We live between 400 and 700 nanometers. What Wavelength Goes With a Color?
b. And the inner ear contains hair cells that are moved by sound waves between 20 and 20,000 Hertz. Sensitivity of Human Ear That’s the extent of our contact with the real world. Beyond said ranges…we don’t know about it!
"A common misconception about the Big Bang Theory (BBT) is that before the Big Bang there was nothing, then an explosion which eventually cooled and coalesced into the Universe as we perceive it."
Of course, yours is the misconception.
Before the big bang there was nothing...at least that is the scientific view.
There is prominent scientific atheist, Lawrence Krauss, "... an Americantheoretical physicistand cosmologist...known as an advocate of thepublic understanding of science, ...and works to reduce the impact of superstition and religious dogma inpop culture. He is also the author of several bestselling books, includingThe Physics of Star TrekandA Universe from Nothing." Lawrence M. Krauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Krauss has said "we all, literally, emerged from quantum nothingness..." Clearly an attempt to avoid the central question. Where are the quantum rules that imply a universe that must appear out of the void?
"Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American theoretical physicist and cosmologist...Furthermore, Krauss has formulated a model in which the universe could have potentially come from "nothing," as outlined in his 2012 book A Universe from Nothing."
Lawrence M. Krauss - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
If you like I will provide Alexander Vilenkin saying the same thing.