http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Banner_686X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner_234X60.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo_250X250 http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Logo-Watermark_250X250.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Background_1024X576.jpg http://www.bigthink.com/adobe/Half-Banner-ALT_234X60.jpg Bigthink http://www.bigthink.com/feed/rss/comment/idea/3830 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:19:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/3830 ramblin budhist, you are invited to participate in the idea "What is your definition of God? 100 words or less". Your input will be appreciated. Thank you. Bigthink Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:19:11 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/3830/#9052 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/3830 I dont think you completely understand the Big Bang theory. Also, its not an attempt to explain the ultimate beginning of the universe, its just an explanation of what happened as far back as we are able to perceive given a lot of observations. Ive heard some interesting explanations from baby universes to colliding ten dimensional membranes. Its kind of impossible to know at this point. Bigthink Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:09:43 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/3830/#1040 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/3830 I have a different theory that also kind of ties into the big bang, I dont know if this has been thought of chances are it has, but I think of the universe as a cycle, just as almost everything else in life is cyclic, the earth revolves around the sun, the moon revolves around the earth and also less visible cycles like the eco system, birth etc. etc. You see a cycle has no clear ending or begining like a ring, so imagine the universe is created in the big bang then destroyed and implodes again, only to have another big bang and starting over again, this could also lead to other theories for example, is the universe exactly the same everytime it recreates itself or is it different? Basicaly this is just something I thought up and personaly kind of believe. Bigthink Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:21:22 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/3830/#908 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/3830 in the scientific community theres a million ways that that spec could have gotten there, and the possiblility of there being other universes is great and therefore meaning wormholes and the white hole is a pretty sweet theory so far where this universe was created from a portion ripped out of another and thrown into this one, i personally see it as absolutely impossible to control anything beyond that point if an intelligent being were even responsible for the reaction in the first place. Just imagine this being yourself with the math and knowledge to open a wormhole and create ur own universe, how would you control it? Bigthink Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:34:43 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/3830/#889 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/3830 I think that there is some theory that explains the origin of the original spec of energy that kicked off the big bang. But as I am no scientist I could tell you what that was. But as far as intelligent design is concerned, the universe is extremely chaotic and I can believe all this has come by random chance. Considering the size and the enormity of the universe it is possible that given enough space matter and time this could happen with out intelligent design. Also if you look at the rest of the galaxy and how many times this particular set of random events has not happened it seems more likely that we are just lucky. I just have a hard time believing that someone went to the trouble to make a flawed and messed up universe. Granted that would make the universe quite similar to the things our intelligence conceives. Anyway, thats my two cents. Bigthink Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:10:30 +0100 http://www.bigthink.com/faith-beliefs/3830/#879