A Universe of Symmetry or Chaos ?

This talk is a question to agnostic, and atheists on how they can explain a world of physical laws that function in the universe with such balance, hence an equation can be made. An equation shows balance and symmetry. Would not have the big bang left to pure randomness created a world where no one equation would be repeatedable all the time every time.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• agnostic
• atheist
• chaos
• symmetry
• physical
• law
• balance
• equation
• universe
• random
• big
• bang

[DarkEmergence]

Things that exist have properties. It's how we know a thing exists in the first place. The universe is more than just empty space, it exists, it has properties. A lot of what you're talking about is concepts created by man to understand the properties of the universe that appear to be "balance" to you.

[DukeJCDC]

One good example, is E=MC^2 has been debated for quite a while now and has recently been challenged with verifiable evidence. One of the foundation equations of physics has been proven that it is not true for all situations.

[DukeJCDC]

And any symmetry in the equations that we came up with is simply our attempt to try to understand how our universe works to help better our own standards of living within the universe. Every equation we have made thus far is simply what we use to answer things until a new equation fits a situation better. Any seen symmetry is only temporary since our universe is constantly changing and we are constantly learning new things to explain how our universe operates.

[DukeJCDC]

I'm going to agree with Gnomefro on this one with why isn't it a possibility that nature just came to exist as it is without any sort of creator? Why does something even as grandeur as the universe need to have a creator to come up with it? The big bang happened and how things are now is how it just happened to settle itself out of the infinite possibilities that could have come out.

[Gnomefro]

You are also making a massive leap from "things appear constant" to "God exists and made them constant". It's absurd to rule out that nature can simply exist the way it is when we have no evidence of anything else and don't even know if it is possible to "create" it.

[Gnomefro]

In a word - no. Logic itself is merely a formalization of the concept of existence. Consequently, there is no such thing as a completely chaotic universe. And frankly, naturalists have a lot less to explain than theists do, because intelligence is a phenomenon requiring orders of magnitude more order - and theists simply state that it can exist in an über form and call it "God". Given that they should have no problem accepting the simpler naturalistic claim as more plausible.

[robtbo]

Not all atheists consider this universe to be random. Personally, I think the concept of randomness is an unwillingness of humanity to admit that we have no freakin' clue how something works.

It seems to me that the most complex of chemical equations to the simplest logical law of self-identity result from the Law of Conservation of Energy. Without this law, randomness would be feasible. This law also removes any need to assume there is a beginning.

Existence doesn't have to be creation.