If there is no God, where did the original matter come from?

Question

If there is no God, irregardless of what religion one may believe he belongs to, then where did the original matter in the universe come from? I understand the concept of evolution and the Big Bang theories, but everything had to come from somewhere.

Assuming the Big Bang theory is accurate then where did the matter that was in the Big Bang come from? It had to get here somehow. What about the forces that caused the Big Bang to occur? Those had to come from somewhere.

Also, how did the first living organisms come about? If the earth was, as theorized, a molten hot ball of rock for a billion or so years, then how did inorganic things develop into organic lifeforms (single cell organisms)?

I'm not trying to start a flame-war between believers and non-believers; it's just a matter of curiosity.

Taking a high school science class won't exactly work since I'm in college. They don't explain that one in high school, either.

Answer 1

Einstein's famous equation e=mc2 shows that matter and energy are the same. Superstring theory tells us that the fundamental constituent in nature is a packet of energy. There really is nothing you call matter, only concentrated packets of energy.

Furthermore, Quantum Mechanics tells us that it takes consciousness to collapse the probability field into the state we call matter. So matter is formed when consciousness acts on energy. This is scientific fact and no physicist will argue this.

So consciousness and energy must have pre-existed creation. But whose consciousness and what energy? What better definition of God can exist than that of original source?

In the beginning there was the Creator, the original source. The Creator was all that there was and there was nothing that was not the Creator. The Creator was composed entirely of energy, and was completely conscious and aware of every aspect of it's own Divinity. Just as you might know yourself to be a generous person but would not be able to experience the act of giving generously unless there was someone other than you to whom you could give, the Creator though aware of it's own Divinity could not fully experience itself since all was one.

Therefore the Creator worked out a magnificent plan where all things could be experienced. In a singular moment we call the Big Bang, the energy of the Creator (which we call Love) was converted into the fundamental building block of matter - the photon of light (E=MC2). Through the principles of vibrating energy creation was stratisfied into density layers in the same way the vibrations we call sound stratisfy into harmonic layers. Just like some sound frequencies cannot be detected by your hearing, some densities of creation cannot be directly percieved by our senses.

Some fundamental conclusions (again supported by science) are that:

1. Everything in Creation is an individual expression of the Creator, by the Creator. Therefore every atom, rock, tree, animal, human, planet, star or galaxy is alive with it's own level of consciousness imparted by the Creator.

2. The energy of the Creator is the fundamental constituent of nature from which all things are formed. Therefore there is no separation from the Creator or anything else, this is only an illusion.

3. The gift of the illusion of separation was provided in order that each person could co-create their own variation of experience with absolute free-will. Nonetheless, it is still an illusion, in reality all-is-one.

Truth is, your very existence here is proof of the Creator. You were created BY the Creator, OF the Creator, and you exist in a highly detailed holographic environment that overlays true reality.
Like an actor in a daytime soap opera, the character you are playing now is not the real you, you are merely acting out your dramas on this stage of visible light.

Unlike a scripted TV show however, this play is an improvisation, and you are a co-creator of the entire production.

Answer 2

Keep in mind science does not claim to have the answer for everything, but it is always looking. You can't find the answers to everything in the hundred years or so that modern science has been around. It's only been a few decades we've been able to get out in space and take a look around.

No one knows where that infinitesimal point of energy came from to start the Big Bang and it's one of those things that may never be determined. But they can prove it happened down to the first trillionth of a second after it occurred.

Same thing with the start of life, they know what ingredients are involved but aren't sure what the "starting" mechanism is yet. Once again, they are still working on these types of mysteries and don't claim to know the answer to it all.

It's an ongoing project and we've barely started.

Does the fact that they don't have these answers prove god exists?

To me that's just answering a mystery with a bigger one.

Answer 3

first of it's regardless. Irregardless is a double negative and annoys the ever loving crap out of me...anyways. Who says the matter had to come from somewhere? Why couldn't it just be? It goes to the question of if God can be infinite and everlasting why can't the universe? Why does there have to be a creator and wouldn't a creator need a creator?
The theory about life is that inorganic molecules combined and created the first proteins which formed the first bits of DNA which then started the chain reaction of bacteria that could live in such a harsh environment and slowly oxygenate the atmosphere. Also theories about meteorites containing living matter seeded the early oceans exist. The point is there are many theories and ideas that leave God out of the equation. All I can say is do your own searching and make up your own mind.

Answer 4

The matter came from the former universe after it collapsed and shrunk into a tiny super dense spot. The tiny super dense spot then expoded again because of a chemical reaction and caused the Big Bang. Matter can never be created or destroyed only changed into another form so the matter that makes up the universe has always been there. The first organic lifeforms developed when chemicals mixed in a specific way that created a cell. Scientist have been able to create cells simply through chemistry.

Answer 5

I like to think that nothing cannot exist without something or else it creates a paradox. Since the universe cannot exist within a paradox, something was created, matter. Instantaneously creating the Big Bang expanding the universe etc. etc.

The earth was indeed a hot ball of rock as you put it, but as it cooled, Hydrogen and Oxygen formed together to create water, which as we all now is the main source of life for all creatures. It is through this process that evolved.

Answer 6

Simple answer: Where did god come from?

If you contend that god has always been there then why not matter? It's an observable fact that matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed they can only change state. Why then would it need to be created? If you believe that god transcends time why not simply believe the same of matter?

Intelligence is a very complex thing and it requires matter to form. God therefore is very unlikely.

Answer 7

Every thing is held together by a force called gluon. It is one of the basic laws of nature. In side of an atom there is chaos held in check by the force known as gluon. With out it, nothing could exist, everything exists as pure energy, it just that no one really realizes it. Break anything down to it simplest form and it is nothing more than energy keeping other energy in check. In the infinite possibilities that can happen is the universe this was bound to happen sooner or later.

Answer 8

Atheists think we're nuts to believe in God, yet they put all their faith in a big bang from nothing. I have a hard time buying into the big bang from nothingness concept, it just seems much more logical to me that something comes from something, everything has an origin, not from nothing at all.

Answer 9

Dark matter. It didn't pop out of nothing. What makes you think things can't live on a molten rock? Because nothing on Earth can? that's because it isn't a molten rock. Things had to evolve to adapt as it cooled or die out.

"They don't explain that one in high school, either."
Did you attend a religious school?

Answer 10

Unbeknownst to many a scholar, the actual matter that started the universe was originally thought to be a decoder ring from a box of Cracker Jacks. Boy were they wrong!