{"id":3691,"date":"2018-04-02T04:57:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3691"},"modified":"2018-04-02T04:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T11:57:02","slug":"big-ol-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3691","title":{"rendered":"Big Ol&#8217; Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question from Call Me Static:<\/strong><br \/>\nSo, I found this looking for an answer for the Law of Biogenesis (I&#8217;m on the younger side) for school and came across this. This interested me and I thought I&#8217;d ask a question to you about what you believe with an atheistic point of view.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDo you believe in the Big Bang Theory and if not, what do you believe created the universe? I&#8217;m curious to see what you believe on this.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;m doing this for pleasure, not anything for school. Just thought I&#8217;d ask out of simple curiosity.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Answer by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/smartlx\">SmartLX<\/a>:<\/strong><br \/>\nLucky you, I just revisited the <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3687\">&#8220;law&#8221; of biogenesis<\/a> the other day.  But hopefully you found the earlier piece referenced therein.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAnyway, I do think the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoolsobservatory.org\/learn\/astro\/cosmos\/bigbang\/bb_evid\">evidence supports the Big Bang<\/a>, so I accept the theory and I just plain think that it happened.  This leaves some pretty big questions, like what existed beforehand and what caused it (if time was, &#8220;at the time&#8221;, in a state where either question even makes sense) and what it implies for the future of the universe (heat death?  Big Crunch?) but that particular moment in cosmic history is looking pretty solid right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question from Call Me Static: So, I found this looking for an answer for the Law of Biogenesis (I&#8217;m on the younger side) for school and came across this. This interested me and I thought I&#8217;d ask a question to you about what you believe with an atheistic point of view. Do you believe in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/?p=3691\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Big Ol&#8217; Bang&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[561,6],"tags":[120,328,116],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-2","category-text","tag-big-bang","tag-origins","tag-universe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pB6tr-Xx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3692,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions\/3692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asktheatheist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}