Barry Lyons
1 min readJun 26, 2019

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I see no fallacy with my comment on the Big Bang. Yes, I assume, with good reason, that if we do figure out the answer that it will be a natural one. Why? It’s because any answer we do have for any question about the nature of the world — Where does the sun go at night? Do demons cause disease? — have ended up being natural answers and never super-natural ones. In other words, given the 100% failure rate of supposed super-natural “explanations” for anything, there’s no reason to think that the explanation for the Big Bang’s cause would not be a natural one. I’m reminded of Sam Harris’s challenge: “I challenge you to think of a question upon which we had a scientific answer, however inadequate, but for which now the best answer is a religious one.”

As for your P.S., yes, some theists do, in fact, believe there was a Big Bang, but many of them believe that God was behind it.

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Barry Lyons
Barry Lyons

Written by Barry Lyons

Lives in New York City, owns too many books and CDs. But then again, there's no such thing as "too many" books and CDs.

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