Before anyone comes for me, I grew up southern baptist – went to a private christian school & was homeschooled for a few years. The extent of my “science” education when it came to evolution & the origin of the universe was “if we came from monkeys why do monkeys still exist?” and “look at this galaxy that’s shaped like a cross, isn’t god amazing!!” I’m an atheist now and would like to have some sort of understanding of how our world came to be, but trying to figure it out as an adult with no real foundation has been incredibly difficult, and none of it’s making sense. I also know I’m asking a lot as all 3 of those subjects are pretty extensive, so if you know any good videos or books I’d love some recommendations!
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Just like the concept of God, there was a mass of energy that contained all there is, was, and will be that burst forth, kinda like a breath into nothingness. Science dictates that the inertia would eventually slow, or at least hold constant in zero gravity, but instead the expansion of the universe is speeding up. Meaning there’s a scientifically inexplicable force behind it. (A force that happened to place a specific star for Zoroastrian magicians to follow and establish what eventually became ground zero for our concept of time.) Science estimates 2 billion years ago, but let’s just go with the last 400k when humanoids evolved. I agree, I don’t think it was just apes evolving, there’s a missing link. Again, inexplicable to science.
Anyway, I think of God as The Big That Banged. That’s what ancient people tried to create a construct of, many times before we got to approximately 4000 BC when the beginnings of the Abrahamic faiths began forming from established Zorastrian beliefs. They went with YHWH as the conglomerate of the Canaanite gods.
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