If matter and energy cannot be created, and the universe that we know started from the Big Bang?

Question

Where did/who created the material that eventually became our Universe?
Could the Big Bang be the scientific explanation of God and not the other way around?

Everything had to come from something because that's fundamental.

The question is not why, but have you thought of that one minor detail relating religion and fundamental physics.

Christian theology believes that God exists outside time and space. That's what makes him God.

Answer 1

it is called "the singularity". And why did everything "have to come from something". Why can't it just be

Answer 2

Yeah, as usual the general population shows its lack of intelligence in these ridiculous answers. Why do 11 years olds always seem to be on the computer at any given time?

The question however is a good one.

Latest "String Theory" does show strong evidence that indeed it is likely the universe always existed in some form. The big bang theory is generally accepted because the evidence the universe (as we know it now) started from an explosion is pretty strong. Just one of many examples- the universe is expanding at a consistent and predictable rate compatible with an explosion.
The original "thing" that exploded in the big bang however may have simply always existed. A previous answer from an 11 year old stating this is impossible because "all things have an origin- it is just fundamental" is evidence of ignorance, not of creation. Other answer, especially implicating a "God Hypothesis" are equally ignorant. There is no real God Hypothesis- in science a hypothesis MUST be falsifiable (that is testable to show it might be wrong). God Hypotheses involving all powerful, omniscient, and invisible things are not falsifiable and thus are scientifically rejected.
In regards to the second question, it is impossible that Big Bang could have created God (I'm assuming you mean the God of abrahamic religions). As a result of an explosion, you get energy and matter. We know God cannot be matter because he is (supposedly) a spirit, not to mention he allegedly defies all laws of physics. Though many eastern religions do indeed see what you might call "God" as purely energy, as far as your question is concerned, God is said in the bible to have always existed and thus he could not have been created. He is also all-knowing so he would have well known that he was created but of course he tells us quite the opposite in the bible, and being omnibenevolent, he cannot lie.

Answer 3

Big Bang as in 'exploding singularity' is largely discredited. Look up inflationary theory and inflationary era. Turns out more than likely the universe is little more than a quantum bump on an infinitely existing quantum field (were it not infinite, it would become infinite, simply because it not being infinite would mean something was left that was deterministic, a violation of Heisenburg's Indeterminancy Principle).

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If everything has to come from something, where did God come from? If you assert that God didn't have a beginning, then why not just assert that the universe as a whole didn't have a beginning and that only the visible universe did? This is, in fact, the very core of inflationary theory.

Answer 4

Scientists freely admit that they can only specualte about the very early (a miniscule fraction of a second after the big bang) universe. Although there is speculation, nothing can preclude God, given our current tools.

I'm not sure if I see a difference in the big bang being a scientific explanation of God or God being a scientific explanation of the big bang. Both presuppose God. The remants of the big bang are observable regardless of the existence of God. What existed before the universe is not necessarily subject to the laws of the universe.

Answer 5

Here's my thoughts:

Prior to the big-bang, there was no time and space, so anything that happened, happened instaneously.

Before the big bang, there are three stages: Nothing, Pre-cause, and cause.

The cause happened, let's just say, God pokes his head out. Now, he realizes that by doing this, He, being unified, becomes disjointed, broken up, because he is filling this empty space with matter and energy. So, as anyone knows when they are missing something, they feel depressed. So, this Cause, being seperated and disjoined, is a state of suffering. So the pre-cause, which would be prior to (relatively speaking) to the cause, would be without suffering. And to avoid the assumption that the pre-cause had a cause, I'm saying that Nothing was before the pre-cause.

So you have the three important phases: Nothing->Pre-cause->Cause.

Now, some things to say. First, since this is prior to time/space, all three happen simultaneously, so that a cause does not come from nothing, but that a cause and nothing existed at the same time, and the pre-cause is there to show you that anything prior to a state of suffering, is inherently free of suffering, but since this is known, and since nothing can not contain knowledge, this knowledge of a state free of suffering creates this special-zone, or in this theory, more or less, God.

I know it's kind of jumbled, and I wouldn't think about it too much, but seriously it's the best explanation I can think of for the big-bang creating matter out of nothing and also including human consciousness.

Answer 6

This is the great "causeless cause" problem in both the Theory of Evolution and the Intelligent design theory. Evolution explains this through "Big Bang/Singularity" and Intelligent Design through the supernatural existence of an eternal omnipotent being, God. This is why either belief is just that, a belief, a leap of faith. I personally find that a supernatural being not bound by natural laws because he exists on his own supernatural plain and created the natural world with its natural laws is far more logical than a natural event breaking the first and second laws of thermodynamics and then everything permanently returning to a natural state, but what do I know? I just have FAITH in God and try to understand all of his creation through what senses I have.

Answer 7

You're assuming that the Big Bang sprung from nothing, which is not an assertion of the Big Bang theory.

And, from what I understand about the god hypothesis, god could not have come from the Big Bang, as he/she/it/they exists outside of time and space.

What came before the universe, before the Big Bang, is a mystery, one that may never be satisfactorily solved. But that doesn't necessitate the positing of a god to answer it. That's just plugging the gaps, as it were. It's alright if there are questions left unanswered.

Answer 8

The energy (which eventually turned into matter and everything else) spewed into our universe, perhaps even creating time, at the big bang. We don't know where it came from or how it was created. To think there is a personal being who did it is one of the infinite possibilities on the otherside of the responsible answer "I don't know." But it sure seems unlikely...

Answer 9

It COULD be such an explanation. Sadly, the "Big Bang" is a doctrine of faith (NO PROOF AVAILABLE BUT JUST A BELIEF) of anti-God evolutionists.

Most of the Evolutionist church comes up with it's theories (which keeps changing as science shows that they can't be right) in order to dismiss God as real.

Answer 10

You're assuming the big bang was a "creation" of some kind.

Many people, atheist or otherwise, assume that the universe has always existed, and that the big bang was simply another stage of change.

But regardless, no one knows... yet.

And that includes people that subscribe to an easy answer written in a middle eastern book of mythology.

Answer 11

what would the mass have to be to quantify the big bang. look at all the planets out there. one theory is that all started from one atom. according to quantum physics there is a small possibility that your next step could put you on mars, litterally. i liken it to tv. if you had a 60" plasma hd and were watching a football with your nose against the screen. you know there is a footbal game but you can't see the plays or fully see and understand what is going on. but there is still a game.