How many of you think matter cannot be created or destroyed?

Question

Just wanting to see. I bet a lot of Christians base their anti-science on random refutations of science instead of the entire thing. So I wanted to see how many of you know the truth behind this. Just yes or no please. Don't give it away for those below you (unless you really want to, I guess that won't stop the next people from answering any way they like).

I know the answer..just a poll.

mention your religion/lack thereof.

Answer 1

Matter can be turned into energy according to the formula E=MC^2 and vice versa.

If you consider energy as another form of matter, then the statement "matter can not be created or destroyed" is true.

If you consider energy as something other than matter, then the statement is not true.

Before you pick one view, consider photons, which are energy AND matter.

Answer 2

I have reason to believe matter can be created, since it has been created. I'm not a physicist, but I have heard theories of antimatter. Since I have not personally witnessed the destruction of matter, I cannot say with authority that it is possible or impossible.

I would be careful to infer that Christians are by nature anti-science. Indeed, many of the world great universities and hospitals were founded by Christian organizations. Don't allow a few fringe believers taint your view of the faith.

Answer 3

You can't do the answering as well as the asking, mate. That's called telling. Which is what I am doing to you. But unlike you I am very humble.
I think if you guys in science had come up with anything any good I would have heard about it.
Could you please put us out of our misery as to the correct answer. Then we can tear that to shreds.
Sorry my answer was very shrewish. I can understand you are trying to Mori poll peope's opinions. But creationist have a vested interest in what you are talking about so you would only get a very skewed survey. I am not passionate about whether black holes are really black or the sun is smiling down on us or whatever. Am I the friendly drunk or the annoying drunk? Did you see that weird eclipse last night?

Answer 4

scientist had a controversy called the information paradox, they said where no information is truly ever lost, they reasoned that with blackholes if everything that is caught in it's gravitational grip is sucked in to be obliterated, then the information that made up that matter/energy is lost to this universe, since nothing can escape from them(black holes) . if no new matter is being produced than there would be gaps or holes in the fabric of our universe. in other words , our universe is slowly being eaten out of existence, but this does not jive with an expanding universe as we see it, so where is all the matter, energy going when sucked into a black hole . is it being obliterated or is just shooting out some cosmic backdoor into other universes, dimension's ,etc. me i find it hard to believe it is being squeezed into some infintessimly small point, at some point an equilibrium must be reached between the amount of matter pressure being pushed in and the amount of matter pushing outward, is new matter being created? OW! brain cramp... anyways, i leave you to postulate as to the happenings here.

Answer 5

I'm a Christian and I know that matter can be converted into energy and theoretically energy could be transformed into matter. However, matter cannot be created "ex-nihilo", that is out of nothing except by God.

Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

Answer 6

i like the struggling with spirit! regrettably, besides the undeniable fact that, this question shows a gross lack of expertise of what the theory of 'God' ability: i visit ask an identical question - if evolution created us, then what created evolution? Or, if the massive bang became the starting up of the universe, the position did the fabric for the massive bang come from? And if it got here from yet another universe of measurement, the position did that universe or measurement come from? that is termed an unlimited regress, which Aristotle (between the fathers of western philosophy and arguably between the properly desirable thinkers of all time) argued hostile to, contained in the spirit that one can't traverse an unlimited sequence (there is continuously the question of 'what comes after that?') the theory of God (once you ignore with reference to the 'sky fairy' naysayers) is of a being, an entity, which isn't concern to the guidelines of physics, reason and result, time, and/or different organic guidelines that we are concern to, yet is quite the author of them. The guidelines of our universe say that if something exists, it had to come back from someplace, and do not enable for something to have 'continuously existed' - the argument is that because this entity isn't concern to the guidelines of our universe, then it isn't outside of threat for it to have existed continually God did some distance more suitable than create the fabric issues that we see in our universe - the solar, the planets, count number number - yet He also created the guidelines by technique of which our universe operates, jointly with time and reason and result.

Answer 7

lets assume matter being converted to engergy or vice versa is just a different form and not what you mean

bottom line:
nothing comes from nothing, ex nihilo...
one of the leaps of irrationality of the big bang.... kinda like pulling a rabbit out of a hat without a rabbit, without a hat and without a magician

now everything can come, ex deo, from God... that would not be the same as coming from nothing and much more rational

Answer 8

Matter cannot be created or destroyed-it is a constant that just changes forms, same with energy...I am a Christian

Answer 9

The first law of thermodynamics is that matter or energy cannot be created or destroyed. The second law. Everything is falling apart. Nothing is getting newer. The sun is destroying everything except chlorophyl.

Answer 10

I think that matter can be turned into energy, and I know energy cant be created or destroyed. So no, it can only be turned into another form of energy.

Nonbeliever