God didn't create anything. Comments?

Question

The Law of Conservation of Matter states that matter cannot be created or destroyed, only redistrubuted.

Believers in "God": You don't believe in Evolution or the Law of Conservation of Matter. What else don't you believe in?

Answer 1

I believe in God.
I also believe in Evolution.

I am also a scientist.
I know tht the Law of Conservation of Energy and Matter is a reference frame only item, and does not hold true on the macro nor the micro scale.

Answer 2

Trust me, you have a valid point. I'm deeply Christian, but I believe in the law of conservation of matter, learned it in science. And evolution is just silly to deny it's existence. Personally, I believe God created us through evolution. The Bible only gives creationism because it was written by people, of stories orally passed down through generations. As for the law of conservation of matter, it can be said that God created us of Himself. Which agrees with the Bible. I have wracked my brain constantly and I find it harder to not believe in God. If nothing else is true: I believe there must be SOME kind of God.

Answer 3

I believe in God and I do believe that he created the whole world today.

Answer 4

Apparently you don't understand. God is who He is. He can do/make anything He wanted to do.


ps - I do believe in the Law of Matter, but it only applies to mortals, the The Almighty

Answer 5

Yes, but scientific laws also say that once people are dead, they can not become alive again. But Jesus was resurrected! Moses parted the red sea.

And to your question, "What else don't you belive in?"

I don't believe that people who deny God as the creator of earth and God of everything can go to heaven! ;)

Answer 6

It's interesting that science has a "Law of Conservation of Matter" since they can't agree on what matter is.

The difficulty in stating this law in terms of the word "matter" is that "matter" is not a well-defined word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Conservation_of_Matter

Answer 7

by definition, God created everything in the universe, ok> therefore, why would god have to follow the rules he created? God exists outside of our time-space dimension> therefore, God never needed a "beginning" and isn't confined by "space"

Answer 8

I believe God is above Mans Laws, and he can do anything he so chooses, no matter what limits MAN thinks they can set.

For us, for humans, for man, for Science, it is a factual law. But God does not fit our laws, he is above them.

Answer 9

In the 18th century, the scientist Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier studied the weight of matter. He noticed that after a chemical reaction, the weight of the product equaled the combined weight of the original ingredients. For example, if paper is burned in oxygen, the resulting ash and gases weigh the same as the original paper and oxygen. Lavoisier proposed a law—‘conservation of mass, or matter.’ In 1910, The Encyclopædia Britannica explained: “Matter can neither be created nor destroyed.” That seemed reasonable, at least back then.

However, the explosion of an atom bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 publicly exposed a flaw in Lavoisier’s law. During such an explosion of a supercritical mass of uranium, different types of matter form, but their combined mass is less than that of the original uranium. Why the loss? It is because some of the mass of the uranium is converted into an awesome flash of energy.

Another problem with Lavoisier’s law on the conservation of matter arose in 1952 with the detonation of a thermonuclear device (hydrogen bomb). In that explosion, hydrogen atoms combined to form helium. The mass of the resulting helium, though, was less than that of the original hydrogen. A portion of the mass of the hydrogen was converted into explosive energy, an explosion far more devastating than the bomb released over Hiroshima.

As these explosions proved, a small amount of matter represents an enormous quantity of energy. This link between matter and energy explains the power of the sun, which keeps us alive and well. What is the link? Well, some 40 years earlier, in 1905, Einstein had predicted a relationship between matter and energy. Many know of his equation E=mc2. Once Einstein formulated that relationship, other scientists could explain how the sun has kept shining for billions of years. Within the sun, there are continuous thermonuclear reactions. In this way, every second, the sun converts about 564 million tons of hydrogen into 560 million tons of helium. This means that some 4 million tons of matter are transformed into solar energy, a fraction of which reaches earth and sustains life.

Significantly, the reverse process is also possible. “Energy changes into matter when subatomic particles collide at high speeds and create new, heavier particles,” explains The World Book Encyclopedia. Scientists accomplish this on a limited scale using huge machines called particle accelerators, in which subatomic particles collide at fantastic speeds, creating matter. “We’re repeating one of the miracles of the universe—transforming energy into matter,” explains Nobel laureate physicist Dr. Carlo Rubbia.

‘True,’ one may say, ‘but what does this have to do with the record of creation that I can read in the Bible?’ Well, the Bible is not a scientific textbook as such, yet it has proved to be up-to-date and in harmony with scientific facts. From beginning to end, the Bible points to the One who created all the matter in the universe, the Scientist. (Nehemiah 9:6; Acts 4:24; Revelation 4:11) And it clearly shows the relationship between energy and matter.

For example, the Bible invites readers to do this: “Raise your eyes high up and see. Who has created these things? It is the One who is bringing forth the army of them even by number, all of whom he calls even by name. Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one of them is missing.” (Isaiah 40:26) Yes, the Bible is saying that a source of tremendous dynamic energy—the Creator—caused the material universe to come into existence. This is completely in harmony with modern technology. For this reason alone, the Biblical record of creation merits our deep respect.

After creating in the heavens things both invisible and visible, the Creator and his firstborn Son focused on the earth. Where did it come from? The variety of chemical elements making up our planet could have been produced directly by God’s transforming unlimited dynamic energy into matter, which physicists today say is feasible. Or, as many scientists believe, the earth could have been formed out of matter ejected from the explosion of a supernova. Then again, who is to say whether there might have been a combination of methods, those just mentioned and others that scientists have not yet unraveled? Whatever the mechanism, the Creator is the dynamic Source of the elements that make up our earth, including all the minerals that are essential for keeping us alive.

You can appreciate that founding the earth would have involved much more than supplying all the materials in the correct proportions. Earth’s size, its rotation, and its distance from the sun, as well as the inclination of its axis and the nearly circular shape of its orbit around the sun, also had to be just right—exactly as they are. Clearly, the Creator set in operation natural cycles that make our planet fit to support an abundance of life. We have every right to be amazed at it all. But imagine the reaction of heavenly spirit sons as they watched the producing of the earth and life upon it! One Bible book says that they “joyfully cried out together” and “began shouting in applause.”—Job 38:4, 7.

Answer 10

I believe in God, and I also he believe he created all things, even you !!