How can something be created out of nothing?

Question

I mean i have talked to people that have said that it has clearly been proven that a explosion can happen with absolutely nothing there? If there is nothing, and i mean nothing, no air, no space, no anything, no container to contain the nothing-ness! How can the circumstances be recreated? Does nothing+nothing=something Im so confused about how it is allegedly possible.. Please give references in your answers, and do not call me a narrow minded Christian or anything, because personally i dont care if that is what you think!
Cheers guys, i know you will be mature about it!

Lol i dont even no what empirical evidence is old school dude.. But heres some stuff for you.. Discovery of the ark of the covenant, discovery of Noah's ark, discovery of red sea crossing, prophecy's that have come to pass, historical records that confirm, or run parallel with biblical records.. Ok i know the last few of those were generalizations, i would give references, but i honestly dont have the time! Clamback i am not ditching Science, i am grateful for what it has provided. How you came to that conclusion i do not know?
Yoda, it is not a childish notion, and i have not answered my own question! I am a Christian because of personal experiences, not because i as brainwashed or had it thrashed upon me! This is why i asked for no answers like yours, it makes me angry, sad and frustrated!

Just so you know i asked this question because i read someone who said that it has been proven that you can create something from nothing, and it has intrigued me ever since.. Thanks for m theory, i will have to look into it, more learning for me!! Sorry i added so much stuff, but once i start i cant stop!

Answer 1

With God nothing is impossible. God thinks and it is. the thought of God is inexhaustible.

Answer 2

How can something come from nothing?

According to the laws of physics as we know them, it can't. We know that energy and matter are interwoven, and can neither be created or destroyed. They can only change forms.

Before the Big Bang, scientists hypothesize that there was a singularity, but we don't really know for sure. We don't know for sure what was there, if anything, or what properties it would have had.

This isn't unusual in science. Often, when science discovers the answer to one question, many other questions are raised in it's place.

What science doesn't do is assume that questions without adequate answers will never be answered.

There was a time when mold growing in sealed containers of soup was celebrated as an act of God's miraculous creation. Until Luis Pasteur proved the existence of microbes, the micro-world was untangible for us humans, and unexplainable.

One noted philosopher/scientist noted centuries ago that we will never be able to determine exactly what makes the stars shine, or what they are made of. Although we still haven't visited a star to take a direct sample, spectography and other technologies have enabled us to determine with a 99% certainty not only exactly what the sun is made of, but also several of our neighboring planets. Only 200 years ago, to say that we would someday have the answer as to what made stars shine and what they consist of would get you ridicule and scorn.

But we still don't know what caused the Big Bang or what it came from or what happened before. We may never know. Some consider this proof of God. I am a christian, however I don't believe there can ever be proof of God. Science can't prove the supernatural.

Science is methodologically naturalistic. Science must assume that every observed phenomenon has a natural explanation that fits within the laws of physics. This isn't due to an aversion of religious views, as many scientists are theists. This method is adhered to simply because when scientists resort to supernatural explanations for things that they don't understand, then it ceases to be science.

Answer 3

Actually that isn't how the current theory goes at all.

M Theory is the current all encompassing theory and it has many, many universes and the cause of new ones is a collision in the underlying frame work of two of them. Google it if you are really interested. The Wiki intro article is OK and you will find websites of the professors working on it that in turn have links to peer reviewed articles. There is also a show on the Science Channel called Extreme Physics that covers the basics.

Basically it says that the universe is made of stuff that was always here, just in a different form.

Answer 4

I don't believe something came from nothing, nor is the Big Bang (a very poor choice of terminology) an 'explosion', it is a combination of a phase change (the collapse of the vacuum energy into a lower state which released the potential energy as a flood of particle creation) and a false vacuum which caused massive and rapid inflation, near or even potentially exceeding light speed.

Explosions are subject to the principles of thermodynamics. The Big Bang/Inflationary Era formed those principles, so those principles didn't exist when the Big Bang/Inflationary Era initially formed.

Answer 5

How can something create something without itself having been created? To follow a logical chain argument is futile. Each creator would have had to have been created by something outside itself. So logically, there would be no beginning of the chain; therefore, the simpler answer, that nothing turned to something randomly would be more acceptable.

Answer 6

If space and time were just a concept instead of a place for entities to exist within, then perhaps your mind could grasp it.

It is like trying to explain three dimensions to a two dimensional entity.

Answer 7

--Louis Pasteur proved it cannot be done by any type of spontaneous generation:

*** ct chap. 3 p. 32 What Is the Origin of Life? ***

Many people recall Pasteur’s work in solving problems related to fermentation and to infectious disease. He also performed experiments to determine whether tiny life-forms could arise by themselves. As you may have read, Pasteur demonstrated that even minute bacteria did not form in sterilized water protected from contamination. In 1864 he announced: “Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.” That statement remains true. No experiment has ever produced life from nonliving matter."

--This of course was from non-living matter developing into something living.

--But your point is of interest simply because according to the Bible even God uses something that exists to make other things--in this case energy--as his controlled tool!

(Isaiah 40:26) “26 “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.”

It corresponds to E=mc2!

--Just because the atom that is greatly energized and appears totally invisible to the microscope does not mean that there is no finite substance there--something indeed has to be there in order for the energy to be released for the atom bomb!

Answer 8

Science made it possible for you, to leave the caves and lead a modern live. You can question everything, that's what science is. I don't understand people with faith. Faith in what, some fantasy? On one hand, you use all the modern marvels developed by science, on the other hand you desperately try to cling to a picture of a flat earth, with angles flapping around stars like moth, watching your live and die. Faith is hypocrisy, if you don't go back with it to the cave..

Answer 9

Something has never been created out of nothing. Bible believers are the ones who think that.

Everything in the cosmos was created by the interaction of elements and gases over a period of billions of years.

Answer 10

This is something that is up for assumption you can go forever with the same question. If I said that there was energy through out the this nothingness you would ask where did the energy coming from. We cant cop out and say that this energy was always there because that argument is already taken.

Answer 11

All matter is infinite and when the Gods created the world and the universe, They gathered the appropriate matter to bring them into recognizable creations.

To create means to gather the raw materials into form. That is what God did.