by Edgar Craven

Created on: December 30, 2008

As anyone who has ever pondered "the chicken or the egg?" has come to conclude, there is a never "something from nothing" scenario. Energy is transferred, altered, mobilized, but never created or destroyed. The potentiality for something is always available, even when we cannot see, measure or even fathom where it came from.

It's easy to see why so many people side almost half and half on this issue- we've got so many reasons to believe and trust in one direction or another. Some people view all the worldly religions and say that there must be some relevance with all of the backstory. The same people may say that divine action and love is always apparent. Others choose to believe in a more metaphysical fashion, using an almost philosophical approach to learn and manage facts. In either case, all these people could be right..

Let me first say that I am here to argue the Big Bang and the results thereof opposed to Creationism. I am in fact an athiest, agnostic, whatever you prefer to label. The reason for this is that I do not, on a scientific, logic based level experience divine activity. I am however, open to new endeavors.

In my argument, I would like to first tackle the Creationtist's rebuttle to the Big Bang, which is to reiterate the above "How can you get something from nothing?" Let's first agree: we, in reality, know very little about the conditions present at the beginning of our universe. A Creationist has no other supporting information except to quote directly from the Bible or other holy scripts, all of which were written by men long before we knew even a quarter of what we do now regarding physics or celestial activity. A person like me would say that in the beginning, there was something. Our universe began when our last one "died." Our universe works much the same as everything else does, in cycles. We begin with what we now call the Big Bang, a sudden moment of phenomenol power being instantly released. The force of this sends matter and energies (and antimatter and anti energy) throughout the vast reaches of space and time. Now, think of an explosion. Any explosion, whether you imagine a hydrogen bomb or an M80 in a toilet. What happens then, after the kaboom? In any environment, in any condition, when energy is released, there will always be a opposite reaction. In the case of the exploding toilet, water flies up into the air, porcelian shatters..but then, before the catastophe is over, matter and energy rushes back into the ground zero. In the

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