I have a question about evolution/creationism/religions?

Question

Ok lets all answer this to one's own beliefs and no insulting anything
where do you think the universe came from? But let me explain a little more in detail...

The Big Blast, God said let there be land/ organisms growing...whatever you believe...

what do you think happened...how did this big black nothing even turn into anything?

This isn't what a science teacher told us..don't insult...seriously your own true beliefs..How do YOU think nothing turned into everything

I am not being rude at all...

but what I am trying to find out..his how this "concentration" of energy came about as well..where did the energy come from that created the universe....That whats I would like to know on how people feel about that

awesome answer Bill S!

Answer 1

As others' have said, who knows that it was a big black nothing? As a matter of fact, from space the earth and large areas appear 'blue'.

I have always been satisfied with: "In the beginning God created...." And it was billions of years ago. ..then it goes on to say..."and the earth was without form and void"...."and the Spirit of God brooded over the earth ..." until God said, 'Let there be light'!" I remember as a young lad reading about the spirit brooding and my understanding of the word was: it was like a mad kid pouting....But, this is not what it means: It means --Like a mother hen sitting on her eggs in the nest to bring them to life !! How brilliant God is !!!

So, as I've taught for years: "In the beginning God created...and the number one tool in His toolbox is -- Evolution"...And that evolution is still going on, although man has poisoned the Air and Water; and exploited earth's resources and riches. I saw a bumper sticker once: "Earth First - We'll pollute and rape the other planets Next" LOL...

Answer 2

As time wears on we learn things. We learned that the Earth is not flat and the Sun does not go around the Earth and so on. We are learning a great deal about how evolution works. There are irrefutable example of thing that have evolved in small ways within recorded history. The fanatics cannot argue with that so they came up with Micro evolution to explain it within the confines of their beliefs. I believe if you see a model that works (Jupiter's moons go around it, maybe the planets go around the Sun) or (I can see small evolutionary changes taking place maybe I can extrapolate a larger change over a greater period of time).

Likewise, we are learning a very great deal about the beginning of the universe. We get more and more of the puzzle put together even though we do not know for sure what happened at the absolute beginning or before. But if I see a train heading for a wall at 100 mph and it is still going 100 mph right up to an inch away from that wall. I do not need to see it hit to suppose that it will.

I have every confidence that the progress being made into explaining the beginnings of man and the universe will continue in the direction that it is now. That there are sound scientific explanations for it and that there is nothing supernatural about it.

Answer 3

I think there has to be some form of intelligent design to the universe. The odds of this world being created by an accident of nature are beyond comprehension. I mean greater than picking the winning lotto numbers 5000 times in a row. The universe and everything in it was created somehow. I use a less literal interpretation of the creation story in the bible. If each 'day' was a billion or so years, it works out pretty even. Science claims the earth is 4 to 6 billion years old.

I can't understand people who deny evolution. It is happening around use right now. How else would roaches and rats develop immunities to pesticides? Or viruses and bacteria mutate to become stronger and resist treatment? I think evolution is part of the creators plan.

I just still haven't figured out who or what that creator might be and how they feel about all these different religions.

Answer 4

The most common scientific answer is the universe never had a start. It has always existed, even before the Big Bang. The Big Bang is were all the matter and energy in the universe was in a ball so concentrated it had no choice but to "explode". Then, when the universe gets to big, it implodes, thus starting the cycle over again. this has repeated forever and will repeat forever. I happen to agree with the science.

Answer 5

Answering this question according to "beliefs" is pretty meaningless -- "beliefs" are often completely random, don't have to be based on any real evidence, and don't have to have any basis in the real world. There are people who "believe" the earth came about from the sexual union of two animals -- think that's real? Same goes for pretty much any ancient, superstition-based creation "myth" -- some of them are good stories, and quite amusing...but none of them have any basis in fact.

There are reasonable theories about how we got here that are based on facts -- our universe began from a "Big Bang," where there was no matter, and energy was concentrated into a very small point...something caused that concentration of engery to expand, cool, become matter, and very simple physical processes explain how the universe formed from there. We don't know YET how that concentration of energy arose, or what caused it to start expanding...but not knowing doesn't mean "god did it," there's no evidence of that.
Similarly, there is enough evidence to consider it a fact that all life on our planet arose from simple combinations of organic chemicals, and through evolution by natural selection became the great diversity of species we see today. There is no evidence there was any "creator" involved in any way.

"Beliefs" are fine, you are of course free to "believe" anything you want to. But the fact that someone believes something -- even if millions of people believe something -- doesn't make it true or correct. Only agreement with evidence can indicate the correctness of an idea, and the more evidence for an idea, the more likely it is to be correct.

And so it's very simple: there is considerable evidence to show that the Big Bang, the natural formation of our universe and solar system and planet, and evolution by natural selection are all correct descriptions of how we got here.
There is no evidence at all to indicate that any of the creation myths are correct descriptions of anything.
Simple.

Peace.

Answer 6

I don't think the universe came from anything, I can accept it just being there.

Though if the Big Bang/Big Crunch theory is true, time would effectively start at the moment of the Big Bang (as anything before would be irrelevant.)

I could say that it was made by a creator, but that just changes the question to "where did the creator come from."

People seem to be able to accept "The creator was always there, exists outside of time, whatever." For me, this doesn't seem to be any more of a solution than to simply say the universe was always there. I see no need to add in unneeded complexity of a creator.

Answer 7

I don't believe that there was ever 'nothing'. The Universe always existed, only the portion visible to us had a beginning.

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A vacuum is not truly empty -- such would be perfectly deterministic and a violation of the Heisenburg Indeterminancy Principle (HIP). As a consequence of HIP, virtual particle pairs spring into existence for a brief moment and usually reannihilate each other. This means that there is a certain minimum amount of energy in any given volume.

As another consequence of HIP, this minimum energy in a specific volume also fluctuates. At times, a certain volume may have slightly more of this vacuum energy, or slightly less.

Under inflationary theory, it is this process from which the initial spike of energy that formed our visible universe comes. The whole Universe (capitalized to distinguish it) is eternally existing, visible universes such as our own form from random spikes of the vacuum energy in the Universe that trigger a phase-change in the underlying spacetime metric which precipitates a false vacuum.

What this technojargon means is, a lot of energy comes into existence by random chance at one spot and manages to make a small point suddenly expand rapidly. Within the originating field, the point remains miniscule, but within that point, spacetime expands rapidly, faster than light even, so that the outside and inside are no longer connected by a chain of causality. From inside, you can never see the outside, and from outside, you could not even see that there WAS an inside.

Answer 8

I really hate mixing Faith and science, but I here is what I believe.

The universe came from the thought of God. In the beginning there was God.

Jn 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.

I believe this absolutely, and find no conflict with evolution. Evolution is rather like a very long gestation period.

Answer 9

I don't know. Sometimes I think of it as a video game like The Sims or something. Somebody just created this software and boom! We think we're in a real place but it's all fake and beyond it is other creatures controlling our 'world'. It's really fun to think about what reality really is.. I can't even explain in words what else I'm thinking. It's too complex argghhh!!!! But really, forget all the theories and beliefs. Then think about how else it could of came to be. It's so weird..

Answer 10

Nobody really knows, they just have theories. I believe we are here for a reason and that is to fullfill whatever our destiny may be. There is no simple answer to how this planet exsists.
Life is to short to worry about things like that.