The existence of existence is a tautology: perhaps the only significant one. Non-existence cannot exist and so existence must, since there is no excluded middle.
Energy is existence, and vice versa.
The biggest part of the energy has no ordered effect because it mostly cancels itself out. Vacuum fluctuations of energy occur with random frequency, random phase, and random polarization plane. In order to have cause-and-effect, there must be a sufficient degree of order to energy.
Randomness does not preclude order. It only means that nature isn't striving for any particular outcome. The reason random fluctuations only rarely produce ordered outcomes is that there are many more ways for an amount of energy to be in disorder than ordered. But, given a large enough number of permutations of energy fluctuations, by chance a few of them will be ordered.
Universes began as statistically anomalous vacuum fluctuations. One of those rare events that can't help but happen sooner or later, like all the air molecules in a room happening to migrate into a small volume for an instant. Enough energy appeared in such a small place that it fell behind an event horizon of its own making.
Once in its isolated spacetime pocket, some of the energy changed state to become matter particles (through a process called pair production). And equal amount of energy became the potential energy to balance what went into the matter particles. The way we interpret our experience with this potential energy is distance, or space.
Potential energy doesn't exist BECAUSE space separates matter; it's the other way around: space separates matter because potential energy exists.
The inflationary era of the universe was the era when energy was changing state to form both particles and space. After that, the normal expansion of the universe continued as the motion of matter (with respect to other matter) converted from kinetic energy to more potential energy: hence, creating more space.
Subsequently, matter began engaging in an upward spiral of emergent properties. Quarks combined into hadrons. Hadrons combined into deuterium and helium nuclei. Hydrogen/helium clouds gravitated into stars. Nucleosynthesis inside stars created the elements heavier than helium. Supernova explosions scattered the heavier elements into surrounding space. Further star formation gathered these elements into Population I main sequence stars and their planets, such as Earth.
Terrestrial planets in the liquid water zone of a star are nature's chemical laboratories, and life is one of the things that can result from their experiments.
But, back to the point, energy is self-existent by tautological necessity. What isn't necessary is information...of ANY kind. The fundamental fact of existence is the energy manifested by quantum uncertainty. Any order that arises from it, anything at all with "information value" is the result of a very lucky roll of the quantum dice.
Gods don't create universes. If gods exist at all, they are created within universes, probably as the result of the choices made by living things. If life does its work correctly, the result will be living gods. Otherwise, nature's work in our part of spacetime will just have to remain unfinished.
2006-07-16 06:21:17
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answered by David S 5
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Rather clumsily worded but in essence philosophically and scientifically valid (and fairly profound as well). It is more helpful to think of 'the universe' changing through state transitions rather than coming into being eg the Big Bang being an example of such a state transition. Current theories suggest the Big Bang may have been just one of very many such occurrences. Of course, there is no need for a God for any of this - God is just a human invention arising from fear and ignorance.
2006-07-16 13:05:12
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answered by bonzo the tap dancing chimp 7
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Energy doesn't instruct man on how to live. There are a lot of unhappy people out there who could be happier if they led a spiritual life. The scope of science doesn't go into how to lead a good and happy life. Nor can anyone make the scope of science grow to include it.
http://www.mechanicsburgnewchurch.org
2006-07-16 13:02:45
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answered by Anonymous
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God is the pure energy of life. The process of life itself. Not an old bearded guy in robes sitting in a throne on a cloud in the sky somewhere, judging or condemning us. God is the energy of pure unconditional love for us all.
2006-07-16 18:03:41
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answered by LindaLou 7
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We are all part of 1
comming into form, moving through form, passing out of form.
2006-07-16 13:03:15
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answered by ? 6
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Yeah.
Right.
2006-07-16 13:07:44
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answered by Anonymous
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Thats good bud, dude.
2006-07-16 13:00:37
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answered by Anonymous
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okay?
2006-07-16 13:01:09
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answered by Lil mama 5
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