So you may have some background knowledge on my beliefs, I am Southern Baptist. Yes; a fundamentalist. My question is for any atheists that know at least a little about some basic physics fundamentals. Please, only scientific-minded, intelligent answers.
We all know that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only manipulated. On earth, living beings with brains are the manipulators, while inanimate objects are the ones being manipulated. Even so, we only have the ability to manipulate energy because we ourselves are already in a constant state of motion. If we had no kinetic energy and all potential, we would be dead and could not do anything because we do not produce our own energy and cannot create any.
Our energy, just like everything else on this planet, can be traced to the Sun. While it is truly a source of immense energy and is sustaining itself for a considerable amount of time, it will inevitably die, having no energy left. We can all agree that the Sun received its energy reserves from somewhere, perhaps a God, perhaps a big-bang. ( Perhaps God used a big-bang
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My point then, is where did energy originate, if not from a being that is completely outside and beyond the laws of inertia and energy? Something had to set this universe into its constant state of motion; the same motion that has been wonderfully transferred all the way down to us today. To me, a big-bang just doesn't make sense - energy has to have started somewhere. And since nothing can change its own inertia, some force outside our working knowledge of the world around us had to expend that first bit of kinetic energy.
Ivan A - Of course I know science doesn't care about any of our opinions, but it's my question and my opinion is relevant to why I am asking this question.
So you are suggesting that there might be some force outside of our current knowledge? That could be a valid point.
LithiumDeuteride - Certainly a well thought answer, but I would suggest just the opposite - it is more complex to assume that energy always kinetic energy has always existed than to say that something exists outside of natural Newtonian physics.
We all know that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only manipulated. On earth, living beings with brains are the manipulators, while inanimate objects are the ones being manipulated. Even so, we only have the ability to manipulate energy because we ourselves are already in a constant state of motion. If we had no kinetic energy and all potential, we would be dead and could not do anything because we do not produce our own energy and cannot create any.
Our energy, just like everything else on this planet, can be traced to the Sun. While it is truly a source of immense energy and is sustaining itself for a considerable amount of time, it will inevitably die, having no energy left. We can all agree that the Sun received its energy reserves from somewhere, perhaps a God, perhaps a big-bang. ( Perhaps God used a big-bang
)My point then, is where did energy originate, if not from a being that is completely outside and beyond the laws of inertia and energy? Something had to set this universe into its constant state of motion; the same motion that has been wonderfully transferred all the way down to us today. To me, a big-bang just doesn't make sense - energy has to have started somewhere. And since nothing can change its own inertia, some force outside our working knowledge of the world around us had to expend that first bit of kinetic energy.
Ivan A - Of course I know science doesn't care about any of our opinions, but it's my question and my opinion is relevant to why I am asking this question.
So you are suggesting that there might be some force outside of our current knowledge? That could be a valid point.
LithiumDeuteride - Certainly a well thought answer, but I would suggest just the opposite - it is more complex to assume that energy always kinetic energy has always existed than to say that something exists outside of natural Newtonian physics.