If God doesn't exist, then who created the very first atom?

Question

Things can evolve from one form to another but someone had to creat the original piece of the puzzle. Matter can not create itself.

Answer 1

A very legitimate question - despite most of the answers posted here.

There is no way that this question can be answered. Science will never figure it out. This is in the realm of philosophy and metaphysics. Whether the answer is God or some other explanation there is no way that we can ever definitively know. When it comes down to it, you can believe in God or some other explanation, but ultimately it becomes a matter of faith.

Quantum physics postulates that particles can be created out of the void. That really begs the question of "why"?

Answer 2

Who? Can't answer that.

But we know atoms are made of even smaller particles:

The electron, the neutron, and the proton.

The neutron and the proton are made up on 3 quarks.

Right now physicists are trying to directly confirm evidence that in the first milliseconds of the universe, it was made up of a "quark-gluon" plasma. Which existed at very high temperatures. As the universe expanded and cooled this quark gluon plasma began forming atoms and the universe we know today. Unfortunately we do not know why we don't have equal amounts of anti-matter (which does exist we've created it and used it).

So there is certain symmetries that the standard model (our best theory for high energy physics) that are not being observed. We cannot yet explain this anti-symmetries in our observable universe.

But scientist are working very hard to uncover the first few milliseconds of the universe and what really happened.

And the standard model is predicted to be soon surpassed by an even greater model. So I am hopeful, and this is a really exciting time for physicists.

Scientific American has a really excellent article by a Columbia Physics professor.

By the way, I'm a little biased here because my good friend is getting his Ph.D. in Quark Gluon plasma research.

Answer 3

Our understanding of the universe is so small that a question like this is pointless. Take a look at human history and see what discoveries we've made over the millenia. We used to think the world was flat, that the Earth was the centre of the universe, and that life started on Earth just 6000 years ago. Today, these ideas seem ridiculous (to most of us, anyways).

Our picture of our world, and much later our universe, has grown in leaps and bounds, but we obviously don't know everything yet. Until we do figure out what actually lead to the creation of the universe, there will be countless people who claim it was 'god' because no other answer is immediately available. Somewhere down the road though, we'll see that this idea is as ridiculous as the idea that the Earth is the centre of the universe. It's called learning.

Answer 4

area of the definition of God is that he's everlasting. which means no individual and not in any respect some thing created Him. He only continually existed. he's spirit, so there are not any fabric aspects to Him. not even what all of us understand as "power," in physics. God is metaphysical; meta = previous. God is better than the actual universe, in spite of the actual shown actuality that the actual universe is area of Him.

Answer 5

light spread in entropy throughout the Universe gathered itself into a singularity, exploding into a more complex form.. Atoms are a thing of our future, and present. In the past, there were no atoms, just endless light. Then one day something of great magnitude gathered the light of the Universe into the Singularity I spoke about.

Answer 6

Atoms came from the combination of particles even smaller than a proton or electron, called quarks. Each quark has a 1/3 + or - charge, so they tend to bond together to form protons, neutrons, or electrons, which in turn create atoms because of the electroweak force (magnetism).

Answer 7

i think that god created the first particle, and he made the big bang happen after that he let nature take its course.... so nature and god wrks hand in hand..even though in our world religion and science can never go hand in hand. i mean for centuries religios people have killed scientist people and for a while scientist people have disrespected the religious people but neither could have happened with out the other.

Answer 8

Then who created god? It always comes back to this question, and you don't have an answer.

Answer 9

Steve Hamn created it

Answer 10

God does exist. Maby not in your religion but im Catholic. IF your religion doesnt believe in God than that is a really good question for you to ask.
P.S. That last part might sound mean but im really not trying to be.