by Benjamin Clark

Created on: April 17, 2009

This is a question akin with the pithy saying, "Can God microwave a burrito so hot that even he can't eat it," and thus it is obvious as to why there has not been a conclusive answer without resorting to logical fallacies or ad hominem attacks. The question is ultimately unanswerable for both sides of the fence yet I find the most peculiar thing to be that both opposing philosophical teams, scientific materialism and theism, get stuck at the same point; has, "this", always been? And if not, who created, "this"? It is the same question poised in a language quipping towards the side always asking the question. Hopefully by flipping the question on its head it will be seen in the light it was meant to be seen; a question that is missing the point.

Physicists and cosmologists are stuck and no theory has given the right logical gusto to keep absolute naturalism happy. The Big Bang theory is generally accepted throughout both the science community and the common public. I remember seeing some interesting pictures of the universe a few million years right after the big bang through radio-wave imaging showing a desolate emptiness with floating gases and unstable gravitational currents. The Big Expansion should be a better analogy for the beginnings of the universe for the singularity didn't explode like an atom bomb which many people assume but the singularity of energy at the birth of the universe simply expanded and stretched its muscles to which it is still expanding today with increasing speeds. This is another question science has yet to come to a conclusive answer to. How could the universe be expanding even faster? Galaxies should be spreading out into nothingness to compensate for the loss of density over the whole universe. I do not know the answer as that I'm no scientists but it shows an interesting point to which the ones asking the ultimate question, "If God created everything, who created God", keep alluding to. What was before the big bang?

Starting from this outlook both parties are in trouble. For the theists say God is the starting point and the materialist say the big bang is the starting point yet neither side can claim what happened before. Therefore, rather than looking at this question as an attack against the religious, it should be more of a criticism of humanity's ignorance in general.

Since as stated before the question is ultimately unanswerable much like the infamous burrito question, I would like to discuss some ideas that give a bigger

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