Originally Posted by: schmangeI'm a realist.
Life evolved from microbes and everything since the creation of life is pure chance. Religion and beliefs are nothing but man's creation to try and assign beliefs to things that humans can't understand.

it aint pure chance if u subscribe to the thought of relativity where time is a dimension which we move apon. its set yet we just travel along it.

on the other hand quantum physics says everythin is random. like we could just fall into the floor one day (quantum tunneling) although this is so unlickely it would have happened like 0.00001 times since the beginin of the universe.


as to big bang i believe in it. theres to much evidence for it. when it started is under some debate but it did happen. what i dont know is if there will be a big crunch in the future. the idea being the universe will stop expanding ( it is proved the univers is definitely expandin) and then colapse in on itself into an amazingly dense ball, then here will be another big bang, and it all starts again.

the other train of thought is the univers will expand for ever untill everythin is ludicrously far from anythin else. i dont like this image as it makes me think of the universe as stagnant and dead.

but then again this looks lickely as for some reason the universe seems to be expandin at an increased rate. they call the reason dark energy. dark cos we cant find it, and energy cos its making the universe move faster.