So, my 9 year old and I have been having a lot of discussions lately about the nature of thought. He's really interested in why people believe the things that they believe, as he's beginning to piece together the fact that not everyone in the world sees the world like he does... It's cool to be a part of. One of the biggest conclusions that he's drawn while we talk about this is that people supplant ignorance for knowledge whenever they can, usually based on what "feels" good to them. It's easier, he's posited, to feel good about something than it is to study and to test yourself. He's even seen himself fall prey to it while doing homework for example. (He hates fractions, so instead of grinding them out he tries to "feel" his way to an answer.)
I say all of that because I witness countless threads get created, and opinions shared, on Religious Forums based on ignorance and emotion - and very little else...
The big bang of what? What indeed was the big bang, some kind of explosion that from which came out the Universe? What was it that exploded, matter? If so, did matter exist even before the big bang? This idea does not seem to make sense to me! Then, there is evolution; evolution of what, of the Universe? If it is, can I call that, expansion instead? If evolution is of man in particular, could I call that development, physical and intellectual? If NO is the answer to all my questions, do you have what it takes to help me in my lack of understanding?
The Big Bang was the beginning of our Universe. Before the Big Bang there was no Universe - just the matter that could (or could not) become it.
In the way that you're thinking of it, of course something existed before... But the word "before" is loaded in this sense, because
before the Big Bang (which is the moment that our Universe came to be) there was no such thing as time. You (and your mind) are a product of this Universe and therefore are eternally bound to linear ideas of time. But that's not at all how space and time work. So, technically, your question is flawed - and that's why it doesn't make sense.
Evolution pertains to all of physicality. It's a comprehensive understanding of existence. It's not just development, but origins, connections, and history.
It does not matter when Physics stopped making sense. It never made and still doesn't as long as scientists deny that the Universe could not have caused itself to exist and, by necessity it was caused by something that preceded it. Now, the search must be of what or Who caused the Universe to exist.
The Universe did not cause itself to be. You're confusing mythological creation stories with objective cosmological phenomena that have no other explanation, so far as we know.
Physics hasn't stopped making sense. You just haven't been keeping up.
Remember the flaw in your logic and questioning that I just highlighted? That's where your confusion comes from... Ignorance.
Your questions are bad, and your supposed required answers are faulty as a result.
I have been exposed to a lot of nonsense in Science and elsewhere and I have never got any one to explain how can something cause itself to exist and, the only place I have found to rest my feet is in Logic about the impossibility of something to cause itself to exist. So, if things exist, it is because they have been caused by something else or Someone else. Now, that plus the concept of Causality will take us back to the Primal Cause without any doubt whatsoever.
Here's a simple question, what caused the Sun to exist? Did the Sun do it on it's own?
Where did the materials that make up the Sun come from? Did the Sun create them?
What about the materials required before that...and before that... and before that? At any stage of that questioning you're free to ponder over how something caused themselves to be - but you're still asking bad questions.
[I will caution you here on the need to remain intellectually honest, as your current reasoning and argument also refutes any possibility of a creator deity.]
If all goes back into infinity as the Universe is concern, it is like the end of credibility for Scientists who believe that the BB was the beginning of the Universe and all the experiments to prove the age of the Universe with the Carbon-14. Since then, all they speak is of an age for the Universe by about 15 billions years old. If the Universe does have an age of about 15 millions years, it was caused to exist because, logically, it could not have caused itself to exist. Now, the point is to research on what or Who caused the Universe to exist. Let's keep the good work!
You're mistaken, again.
And endless and infinite cycle of Universes does nothing to dispel the current state of
our Universe. Carbon dating is a science that is not based on possible other-Universe scenarios. It's based on observed decay in this world, based on the physics of this Universe. The same scientific method that taught us that germs cause illness also taught us the decay rates of radioactive isotopes.
What you're essentially arguing is that because gravity is different on other planets, we can't know anything about gravity on Earth... That's a nonsense position. We can only talk about where we are - not what we imagine an alternate reality to be.