Ok, if God is not real, then how do you explain how the planets were originally created?

Question

They couldn't have been made out of nothing. Everything comes from something.

Answer 1

Not so. GOD created everything "ex nahillo" out of nothing. that is just the way it is. Next question?

Answer 2

Don't try to use this line of logic, because you believe that then you must ask the next question, where did god come from? Then where did that god come from? An infinite regress of gods. It's so much easier to say that the universe has always been here, and it was never created. So god or a god is not needed to help form the planets. They do it all on their own, with the help of a little gravity and a star.

Stars all form the same way, planets form around stars the same way. It is more than likely that most, if not all, stars have some system of planets.

Answer 3

That isn't the only explanation. There are many theories, but what's wrong with them just existing? Why does someone have to have created them?

The traditional answer to this question is that planets are formed out of the remnants of star birth. When a star is still in the initial stages of being created, the molecular cloud surrounding it begins to rotate. As it rotates, the cloud will begin to condense around areas where there is more matter. These are called ‘protoplanets’. These protoplanets will continue to accumulate matter by gravitational pull, which increases as they grow larger. When they get big enough, their gravity will be strong enough to attract gaseous materials and form an atmosphere; some planets, like Jupiter, are comprised mostly of gasses attracted in this way. In many instances the protoplanets themselves will collide, generating enough heat to ‘fuse’ them together. Once the protostar around which these protoplanets form becomes a star proper, solar winds will blow away the remnants of the cloud, leaving only the protoplanets that have formed, which have enough mass to withstand the force of the solar winds.

The protoplanets formed in this way will become asteroids, comets, moons and planets, depending on their size. Most will collide with each other to form a small number of planets, and those which don’t actually collide will become satellites of the larger planets.

Answer 4

How does that statement in any respect account for the existence of a God. Actually, more accurately, how does in account for the existence of only one god!!!

When the bible was written, they didn't even know that the Earth was round and orbits the sun!!! Need Proof? Here it is:
Psalm 93:1, Psalm 96:10, and Chronicles 16:30 state that "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved." Psalm 104:5 says, "[the LORD] set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." Ecclesiastes 1:5 states that "the sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises."

Answer 5

You know what? No. I'm not even going to begin to explain the science of it to you. Read Cosmos by Carl Sagan. I'm so sick of these questions and I will tell you why.

1) God is not the default. Even if there is something we don't know or understand, that doesn't mean that God did it, it just means we haven't yet come to understand certain things. As Carl Sagan said about aliens "It really is okay to wait for all the evidence to come in before you come to a conclusion." I'm paraphrasing but that's about right.

2) You are defeated by your own logic. If everything comes form something, where did God come from? God explains nothing that He doesn't further complicate. He's just another (extraneous) step in the regression, not an end to it.

Answer 6

My theory is planets, stars, sun and the moon don't even exist. They are each different types of holes and cracks in the rotating solid black sky around the Earth that lets in light energy from the other side. I have no idea what created this, or it could have always been this way.

The whole astronomy and cosmology bit is all a scam by scientists to get government funding, teach fake classes, sell books and movies. Maybe they are honestly deluded.

Answer 7

150 years ago, we didn't know about bacteria. No clue. It wasn't understood until Louis Pasteur determined that germs caused disease.

You are asking the same questions that scientists ask. You have, however, asked this in the Religion & Spirituality section, where we are mostly humanities majors, not biologists or physicists. Would you come to R&S to find out what opus number was Mozart's 40th Symphony? I think not. You're asking us to play to our weakness. Quite frankly, you're being unfair.

So let me suggest two things:

1. If you are serious about wanting to know the current evidence-based understanding on the origins of the universe and on evolutionary theory, there are excellent descriptions found at http://www.talkorigins.org .

2. Consider that you are proposing (not so subtly) that anything that is not explained is a place for God to be discovered. This is commonly referred to in ontology as "the god of the gaps" theory. It typically assigns God to any blank space that science has not yet reached useful conclusions. Remember what I said about disease? Before bacteria were discovered, it was assumed God was punishing the ill, or that they were demon possessed, or some other supernatural phenomenon caused sickness. This is the same god of the gaps.

Science never assumes, and should never assume, anything is supernatural. The purpose of science is to discover through measured observation, testing, and repetition what natural causes lead to our natural world. If you impose a statement "God caused it," then this stops the search for knowledge, because God is ultimately unknowable. This is the reason that the "god of the gaps" theory is discounted among learned ontological academicians, and is ignored by science.

Answer 8

if this is a genuine question (by anyone older than 12), then you are sadly more ignorant of science then any atheist i've ever met or heard is ignorant of religion. You are already on the internets, research the Big Bang, origins of planets, destruction of stars, whatever you're curious about.

and you're right, they couldn't have been made out of nothing. That's why evolution of planets is true and creation of planets is false.

Answer 9

First of all, the bible never mentioned other planets. Italians in the Age of Enlighment thought the theory that the Earth revolved around the sun at the possibility of other planets besides the stars we see 'orbiting around Earth' is BLASPHEMY. It contradicts the Bible! Which yeah, it does. But we know which is true.

Where did God come from?

Answer 10

Nobody says the planets came from nothing, except the theistically infected, but then their handlers are lying to them.


So if everything comes from nothing then where did god come from? Can not come from nothing or the foolish pat answer of he has always been for that would violate your premise that "everything comes from something".

Answer 11

If God is real, then how do you explain how the planets were originally created.

You can't just say God is magic. You actually have to explain it. Can you?