3.20.2005

bad interviewing

I was listening to the radio today, and they had on some religious theorist who spoke in pompous, condescending ways about science and evolution. One part that blew my mind was when he said this:

"The biggest flaw in the theory of the big bang and evolution is, 'What created the big bang? Ask a scientist this simple question, and you've got them stumped.'"

I can't believe the interviewer just let this slide. The question can just as easily be turned around, if any religious fanatic is arguing with you, by asking "What created God?". Both religion and science have the same unanswerable problem of creation.

Saying that God has always existed is obviously a cop-out, because a God magically popping into existence and beginning to create things is just as absurd as a universe being created out of a single point of infinite density. No matter how you come at it, you get back to "Why is this all here?", and your head starts to hurt. It's obvious that an omnipotent God could create everything we see, that's the easy part. The hard part is, why is there a God in the first place? That's just as unanswerable. And anyone that idiot has "stumped" with his little question really needs to learn how to argue.

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