đ¤Śââď¸ The unskilled apologist proposes that in his view, something always existed, apparently not realising that the proposed non-physical entity would necessarily violate the laws of thermodynamics (and basic reason). He also ignores the fact that despite Sea Breezeâs straw man, neither atheists nor cosmologists assert that the universe just âappeared from nothingâ, which is actually the creationist position.
Cosmologists offer various hypotheses about the earliest moments of the known universe, none of which are asserted as fact. Because of the relationship between matter and time, it may not even make sense to suggest there could be anything âbeforeâ the universe, though it is also possible that the current universe was preceded by one or more prior universes.
Some atheists are aware of hypotheses proposed by cosmologists, and others are not. There is no âatheist worldviewâ about how the universe began.