How did the Universe come to be?

[Sociobiology]

Why do you consider the Bible in any form a credible source?

I am not using the Bible as a source. One of the poll options was divine creation by God. Traditionally the account of Genesis has been used to support an argument for creation ex nihilo; before Genesis there was zilch, only as God spoke did everything come to be.

flaw in your own reasoning
if nothing existed than neither did god/s.

[The Solar System Scope]

Whoever gives me the history of the Universe from creation to now will get a telescope.

You can send the telescope to astrophysicist Brian Harold May CBE.
http://www.amazon.com/Bang-The-Complete-History-Universe/dp/0801889855

Nah, don't satisfy me.

[Immoren]

Azathoth piped it into existence.

[Sociobiology]

Aren't they both evolution?

Is eugenics evolution?

yes, just really fucked up artificial selection.

[The Solar System Scope]

You said a bad word! You shall be banned from this forum! You disgraced Max Barry!

[Mavorpen]

No it isn't. The current hypothesis is that in the early universe there was a small patch that contained repulsive gravity, which caused the inflation.

Considering the fact that inflation occurred before gravity or any of the fundamental forces existed this evidently makes a great deal of sense, just as you seemingly figuring out what dark matter and energy are.

Thanks for agreeing with me.

[Sociobiology]

[The Solar System Scope]

Biggy Bangy never happened. The End.

[Conscentia]

Biggy Bangy never happened. The End.

Go on then, so-called "astronomer". Explain the CMBR.

[Conscentia]

Is eugenics evolution?

yes, just really fucked up artificial selection.

It's not necessarily bad. Unintentional eugenics is effectively practised by most countries in the form of imprisonment &/or execution. I've read an article in New Scientist in which the author argued that humans could have become (somewhat) less violent in part because the violent and criminal elements of society have decreased chances of reproduction compared to the general population. Humans have artificially been selecting themselves to be more docile.

[Conscentia]

You can send the telescope to astrophysicist Brian Harold May CBE.
http://www.amazon.com/Bang-The-Complete-History-Universe/dp/0801889855

Nah, don't satisfy me.

Irrelevant.

[The Solar System Scope]

Biggy Bangy never happened. The End.

Go on then, so-called "astronomer". Explain the CMBR.

Explain the word CMBR.

[Farnhamia]

Go on then, so-called "astronomer". Explain the CMBR.

Explain the word CMBR.

Cosmic microwave background radiation.

[Thesan]

My idea is the same of Saint Seth from Kent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoqSas2uFKw

[Conscentia]

Go on then, so-called "astronomer". Explain the CMBR.

Explain the word CMBR.

How can you call thyself an astronomer when you don't even understand the term CMBR. CMBR stands of cosmic microwave background radiation.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/139207/cosmic-microwave-background-CMB

[Sociobiology]

yes, just really fucked up artificial selection.

It's not necessarily bad.

neither is the phrase "fucked up".

[Conscentia]

It's not necessarily bad. [...]

neither is the phrase "fucked up".

You were clearly using it in a negative sense.

[Zottistan]

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That's not much of an argument for anything other than the credibility of science, tbh.

[The Solar System Scope]

Explain the word CMBR.

Cosmic microwave background radiation.

So what, if God wants to have that CMBR you speak of let it be. You don't know how Big Bang could have started anyway, there are lots of theories about it.

[Conscentia]

Cosmic microwave background radiation.

So what, if God wants to have that CMBR you speak of let it be.

Thy "God" hypothesis explains nothing. What's a "God" anyway? Where did it come from? Why would it create the CMBR?
The Big Bang theory predicts & explains the CMBR.

You don't know how Big Bang could have started anyway, there are lots of theories about it.

Irrelevant. People didn't know the cause of lightening. They still knew that lightening exists.

[The Solar System Scope]

So what, if God wants to have that CMBR you speak of let it be.

Thy "God" hypothesis explains nothing. What's a "God" anyway? Where did it come from? Why would it create the CMBR?
The Big Bang theory predicts & explains the CMBR.

You don't know how Big Bang could have started anyway, there are lots of theories about it.

Irrelevant. People didn't know the cause of lightening. They still knew that lightening exists.

What "irrelevant"? For a theory to stand, it must have an explanation for EVERYTHING!!! If Big Bang didn't have an explanation on how it started, it isn't a proper theory.

[Conscentia]

Thy "God" hypothesis explains nothing. What's a "God" anyway? Where did it come from? Why would it create the CMBR?
The Big Bang theory predicts & explains the CMBR.

Irrelevant. People didn't know the cause of lightening. They still knew that lightening exists.

What "irrelevant"? For a theory to stand, it must have an explanation for EVERYTHING!!! If Big Bang didn't have an explanation on how it started, it isn't a proper theory.

No - a theory only has to explain the the thing it's explaining. The Big Bang theory explains the early universe.

Also see:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2010/sep/04/stephen-hawking-big-bang-gap

[Novorden]

I like the Quantum Vacuum fluctuation/big bag theory.

"In quantum physics, a quantum vacuum fluctuation (or quantum fluctuation or vacuum fluctuation) is the temporary change in the amount of energy in a point in space,[1] as explained in Werner Heisenberg's uncertainty principle."

'temporary' in this case being several billion (trillion?) years.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1 ... vP6dvl_uT0

[Seperates]

Thy "God" hypothesis explains nothing. What's a "God" anyway? Where did it come from? Why would it create the CMBR?
The Big Bang theory predicts & explains the CMBR.


Irrelevant. People didn't know the cause of lightening. They still knew that lightening exists.

What "irrelevant"? For a theory to stand, it must have an explanation for EVERYTHING!!! If Big Bang didn't have an explanation on how it started, it isn't a proper theory.

You don't understand how science works then.

[Kratu]

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Carl Sagan also said something like that didn't he? Like if civilization collapsed and rose again your story about a snake and a man in the sky wouldn't survive but science would be rediscovered.