The Universe?

Question

Can anyone give me a good explanation of how the Universe was created if there is no God.?

Answer 1

No, no one can. There is a theory in Cosmology that is a variation of the Big Bang theory that postulates an inflationary period lasting less than a second that caused space itself to expand by huge amount. There are explanations involving a Higgs Field for why this might have happened. But the theory doesn't yet explain why the Higgs field exists, or what caused the expansion to start when it did.

I expect many theists reading this right now are saying to themselves "Right, God did it you dummy!" Well, that may be so. But let me turn around and ask a question that is only slightly different from the asker's question:

God?
Can anyone give a good explanation of how God was created?

You see, I find the "God did it" answer to be totally unsatisfying. Why can we postulate that God has always existed but not postulate that the Universe (or Higgs Field the Universe is contained in) always existed?

If you want to believe in God, I won't complain, just don't tell me that God must exist because there has to be a creator. I think that is faulty circular logic.

Answer 2

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The Big Bang Theory

Representation of the universe according to inflationary cosmology.
The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.
In 1927, the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître was the first to propose that the universe began with the explosion of a primeval atom. His proposal came after observing the red shift in distant nebulas by astronomers to a model of the universe based on relativity. Years later, Edwin Hubble found experimental evidence to help justify Lemaître's theory. He found that distant galaxies in every direction are going away from us with speeds proportional to their distance.

The big bang was initially suggested because it explains why distant galaxies are traveling away from us at great speeds. The theory also predicts the existence of cosmic background radiation (the glow left over from the explosion itself). The Big Bang Theory received its strongest confirmation when this radiation was discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, who later won the Nobel Prize for this discovery.

Although the Big Bang Theory is widely accepted, it probably will never be proved; consequentially, leaving a number of tough, unanswered questions.

Answer 3

I am a Christian. But I don't believe that God relates to my answers.

I believe that the universe has been around forever. Mater and energy can't be created or destroyed.

The answer depends on what you call the universe. Is the universe = everything? Some people believe in the "Multi-verse" and in that case, you just need mater or energy to travel into our universe and you're OK, but I don't believe that's possible.

Answer 4

Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Rom 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
In Christ,
TJ57

Answer 5

you see in the book of Genesis there is a story says something like this in the beginning god was: then he made the heavens then he made the earth all this took seven days well six and on the 7th he rested

Answer 6

Just like when you look into a molecule you see electrons and protons orbiting a nucleus, our entire universe in somehow "inside" something larger.

The smaller we go, we keep finding smaller and smaller things that we didn't expect to find. Similarity with so much unknown in our universe it's small minded to think it's the only thing that exists at all!

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Answer 7

Nope.

But does that give any creedence to the existence of god?

Answer 8

If there is no creator, then by definition, the universe was not created.

Answer 9

Well, there was this giant frost giant, Ymir. Odin killed him and used his body to make the universe.

Answer 10

I can't. I wasn't alive to witness any beginning save my own...and I can't even remember that!