With what materials did God create the earth?

Question

Whoever gives me the best answer gets a glorious cookie.You know you want it.

Answer 1

Well, the only Cookie I want is the Umbrella Cockatoo that was stolen from me while I was in the hospital. His name was Cookie.

As for material, he created everything from the energy of his being. In theory, matter can be converted to energy and than back to matter, but what if you already knew the patterns of the matter you wish to create? Could you than create matter just from energy?

Consider what happens when you make a phone call, your voice is converted to energy, than back to sound. Two hundred years ago that would have been considered magic. One day we may understand how to create matter from energy.

Answer 2

I assume you mean "the physical universe" when you refer to "the Earth". The origin of the planet Earth is quite well understood and explained by the known laws of nature. So let's look at the question as "With what materials did God create the universe?".
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But whoa - what does "universe" mean? It means "all that exists". So it is not "made from" anything. Whatever materials exist are necessarily already part of it.
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The use of the words "God" and "create" carry within them some presuppositions, assumed as if the questions they involve have already been answered. Yet in fact they have not been answered. There is no evidence that only one God exists. There is no evidence that many gods exist. There is no evidence that any gods at all exist. You may choose to give yourself answers and make assumptions but these must be based on faith, not evidence.
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And even if a God or gods do exist, who says he/she/it did any creating? There's another assumption right there.
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And any god worthy of the name, if he/she/it decided to create a universe, why should materials be required? All God has to do is to say - BE - and it is. "Fiat lux", and there is light. As John's gospel wisely says, in the beginning was - what? Material? No. "The word". The logos. When a god speaks, things suddenly exist. Were it not so, then you would not be looking at a god but at a mortal.
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Faith *must* be based on belief without evidence, or even contrary to evidence. If you want to accept something on the basis of evidence, then you are not exercising faith.
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If you choose to deal with questions like yours on the basis of faith, that's fine - whatever floats your boat - but it's not using the methods of inquiry we call "scientific", methods which have worked well since the Ionian Greeks invented them in the era of Thales of Miletus, long before Socrates.
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For three thousand years, therefore, the application of rational free inquiry to observed evidence has moved us ever closer to an understanding of reality. Meanwhile, faith-based studies have torn the world apart into countless religions and an endless array of sects. Not a pretty picture.
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Of course you are free to believe what you want and to practice any faith-based behavior that turns you on, but as for me and my house, we are glad to have penicillin, x-rays, internal combustion engines, and enough to eat thanks to crop breeding - the achievements and gifts of nothing more nor less than human effort without appeal to the supernatural.
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So your question would be best addressed to people like those medieval monks who stayed up all night debating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. You can invent all kinds of answers but they will have little relationship to the realities of life.

Answer 3

Yes, it sure does seem odd that people can use this as an argument, because either something was created from nothing (impossible), or by an intelligent being from power that was always there. According to string theory, all matter is made of vibrating strings of energy, which is consistent with Einstein's equation, e = mc(squared), Power and energy, energy and power - perhaps they're the same thing?

Answer 4

Lets see (eyes cookie) The universe needs am origin or original source. Now you have a God who is all powerful, He created the world. Mostly likely being God, the ultimate being, created it out of nothing. He, God, is the origin of the universe.

Note. evolutionist please remember that you believe that nothing exploded.

Answer 5

God created the materials as he is the creator of everything. For the earth you have tons of materials: rock, dirt, sand, water, salt, grass, trees, flowers, etc.

Answer 6

God is Omnipotent,any thought, Becomes ! Let there be light, there WAS light. This is why the universe is endless His power is so great every thought becomes.

Answer 7

"In the beginning God."
Before anything was created there was only God. So what did God (Love) use to create with? Love (God) .Please rememer god is not a person sitting on some piece of real estate somewhere in the sky. .God is another word for LOVE.

Answer 8

The strictest definition of "create" is to make something from nothing. God spoke the materials you wonder about into being.

Answer 9

The earth is 6,000 years old.

7,000 years ago humans invented glue. I'm pretty sure God at least used our human invention to glue this planet together.

Answer 10

Turtles