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Do Atheists think the Big Bang started the earth spinning?

Do atheists think that the Big Bang was so perfect that it set the earth spinning in a perfect motion to create "night and day" in a 24 hour cycle and also started a harmonious orbit around the sun creating the season?

Genesis, Chapter 1: Verses 3-5

3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Or did God set the earth spinning, creating Night and Day?

Update:

Alright, where did Gravity come from?

Update 2:

The origin of gravity is a mystery.

Gravity is an unusual force that cannot be shielded or absorbed.

There is also no explanation for the experimental observation that the gravitational mass of a body is equal to its inertial mass.

However, new ideas on the origin of gravity, based on including a stronger form of Mach’s Principle, predict that these two types of mass should be identical, and indicates that gravity may have "inertial origins".

Definiton of "inertia" as related to Physics:

The tendency of a body to resist acceleration; the tendency of a body at rest to remain at rest or of a body in straight line motion to stay in motion in a straight line ---unless acted on by an outside force.(!)

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/inertial

Now, where did this "outside force" come from?

Maybe Genesis, Chapter One, Verse Two has a clue?

"...the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters."

Update 3:

forgot to post this link about gravity:

http://www.theoryofeverything.co.uk/

Update 4:

Yes, the time frames of planetary orbits are changing, and the Sun is EXPANDING! Creating more heat! Eventually buring up the earth!!!

Reminds me of some Biblical foresight that talks about: (paraphrasing) "and mankind will beg to die, but can not"

But I don't want to get on an ole "fire and brimstone" soap box.

One thing that must be considered, is the perfection necessary to sustain life on this planet! *peels skin of the banana*

Update 5:

Our Earth was spinning very fast when it was spit out of the Sun as a molten glob four and one half billion years ago in the initial explosion. (Venus was spinning in an opposite direction when it was spit out and is still doing the same).

The Earth settled down in a very fortunate orbit for the existence of life. At 93 million miles distance from the Sun it receives just about the right amount of radiant energy.

Its spinning has gradually slowed down over these billion of years and is now settled into a comfortable 24 hour rotation at the present time.

It will be millions of years in the future before it slows to a complete halt as our less massive moon has already.

http://novan.com/solar.htm

Update 6:

While we know the Earth's rotation is slowing that is not the main reason why the extra "Leap Second" was added by our official time keepers this year. The reason for adding a leap second is that the planet does not rotate exactly once every 24 hours (86,400 seconds). The rotation actually takes 86,400.002 seconds so that each day this little difference builds up between the atomic clock and the earth's rotation.

When the difference builds up enough (.9 seconds), the time keepers must add another second (leap second) to keep the stars location, relative to the planet's rotation, in exact sync with the superaccurate atomic clocks.

http://novan.com/earth.htm

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  • 1 decade ago
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    This one doesn't. It doesn't hurt to actually read and understand what most people have come to understand about the formation of the Earth.

    Here's a hint, it has something to do with things called accretion and gravity. Be warned, this explanation spans quite a bit more than 3 sentences, so put on your thinking cap.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, if you actually knew anything about science you would know that forces can be set in motion by an outside force like gravity. And that's why the Earth spins and rotates the sun, that's why anything in space spins. It's coincidence that a day is 23 hours and 56 minutes, 24 hours is not perfect either, if a day had been say 30 hours instead of 24 it would be considered "perfect"

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Science explains the big bang was not from nothing but from a singularity that was all the matter and energy in the universe compressed into a single point that then expanded rapidly! So it was always here! But why are BAD christians always claiming the big bang came from nothing? Are they that ignorant? Did they sleep through school or is it that they know the truth but think they can twist it because everyone is gullible?! It is only BAD Christians that claim that there was nothing and then god popped up out of nowhere and is supposed to have then produced everything from nothing! The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept the big bang and evolution! Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”! Nice that christians and atheists can agree and laugh together even if it is at fundie expense! But behind the laughter is the despair at the fundamentalists striving so hard to destroy christianity by turning it from a religion to an ideology! Surveys suggest that 29% of American christians are so extremist in their beliefs that they fall well outside of the accepted bounds of christianity!

  • Andy F
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Somebody else said it better than I can. The Big Bang is believed to have come long before the formation of the solar system from a big ball of spinning gas.

    Gravity is what would have caused the gas to congeal into the sun and the planets, and gravity is what would have started the earth into motion.

    If you're a certain kind of religious person, you might argue that God is the "first cause" or "ultimate cause" of everything, no matter how many intermediate causes lie between the ultimate cause and the ultimate result.

    Similarly, an atheist who is following the current cosmology might say that the Big Bang is the ultimate cause of the world & the solar system being formed. But the proximal cause is the action of gravity on the earth that caused it to start revolving while orbiting around the sun.

    I think ... until someone with a better grasp of cosmological theories corrects me.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    No, because unlike you I've actually studied science and know what I am talking about.

    1. The Big Bang deals with the beginning of the universe.

    2. It's not a perfect 24 hour cycle, more like 23 point something.

    3. The rotation of the Earth is very slowly slowing down, mostly because of the gravity from the Moon, so the length of the solar day is very slowly increasing.

  • 1 decade ago

    perhaps the fact being that Dark Energy pushes, it is what has caused the Earth and the other planets to spin, not the Big Bang Theory! and perhaps Dark Matter helped it cause the acts of Gravity as Sir Issac Newton had told!

    and the Earth can't have a perfect spin! or else it would need a perfect orbit, a perfect shape, and every thing else would need to be perfect as well!

  • 1 decade ago

    The earth was formed about 9 billion years after the big bang, so no.

    If God made a perfect orbit and a perfect rotation, why is the year almost but not quite 365.25 days long, causing endless problems for people who tried to figure out an accurate calendar?

  • 1 decade ago

    The sun is so massive that it was just bound to attract some hunks of rock and various other gas planets to revolve around it. The earth was likely a bed of molten lava before remnants of a fallen star crashed into the atmosphere and gradually brought water and then finally vegetation. This is all speculation, of course, but then again what isn't when thinking about such significant paradoxes as our planets origin.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Define "perfect motion"

    And you're right, it could have just as easily been spinning at a slower rate, making a 26 hour day, or a 90 hour day....and it might have gone around the sun faster....or whatever. But no, it is spinning THIS fast, and orbiting the sun at THIS rate.

    What's your point?

  • mcq316
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Round things can spin when acted on by a force, like gravity. And we orbit the sun due to that same gravity.

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