{"id":401,"date":"2017-11-27T18:29:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T02:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/?p=401"},"modified":"2018-05-13T17:56:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T00:56:02","slug":"was-big-bang-by-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/was-big-bang-by-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Big Bang by God?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question on <a href=\"http:\/\/qr.ae\/TU12RP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quora<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As an atheist, what is your view of the idea that some kind of sentient being could have kicked off the events that led to the Big Bang?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe. Maybe not. But let\u2019s not confuse imagination with Science.<\/p>\n<p>To quote the great scientist, Thomas H. Huxley: \u201cThe great tragedy of Science &#8211; the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.\u201d Science requires <strong>falsifiability<\/strong> and is built on observation and empirical evidence. Imagination, on the other hand, requires nothing but a creative mind; literally anything can happen in the world of fantasy.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I love how Neil deGrasse Tyson puts it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientific discovery at any moment has a frontier, and there tends to be an urge for people, especially for religious people, to assert that across that boundary into the unknown lies the handiwork of God.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_28466\"  width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"  data-origwidth=\"1200\" data-origheight=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xRx6f8lv6qc?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=light&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question on <a href=\"http:\/\/qr.ae\/TU12RP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quora<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As an atheist, what is your view of the idea that some kind of sentient being could have kicked off the events that led to the Big Bang?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe. Maybe not. But let\u2019s not confuse imagination with Science.<\/p>\n<p>To quote the great scientist, Thomas H. Huxley: \u201cThe great tragedy of Science &#8211; the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.\u201d Science requires <strong>falsifiability<\/strong> and is built on observation and empirical evidence. Imagination, on the other hand, requires nothing but a creative mind; literally anything can happen in the world of fantasy.<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/was-big-bang-by-god\/\" title=\"Read More\"> <span class=\"button default\">Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[6,7,9],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yintrigue.com\/yink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}