Did the Universe Create Itself? Were they created out of nothing?

Question

We live in an amazing universe. It is a universe peculiarly balanced, and purposefully tempered as if to provide a safe host for living creatures.

According to modern astronomers, the universe is expanding. They hold that if gravity had been only slightly stronger, it would have overtaken expansion very early and caused the universe to collapse. Had gravity been slightly weaker, universe expansion would have become a runaway process, not allowing time for the formation of galaxies and stars.

If, for instance, the strong and weak nuclear forces were slightly stronger relative to the electromagnetic forces, hydrogen would not exist in its ordinary form. This would mean that heavier elements, such as carbon and oxygen - two of the essential building blocks of life - would never have existed.

The strength of gravity is crucial to the existence of life in the universe in another way. If it were weaker, then it could not crush the material in a star the size of the Sun with enough force to ignite its thermonuclear reactions. Only very massive stars would shine, and such stars would probably have too short lifespan to allow for the development of life.

These indications that the universe has been arranged to favor the appearance and survival of life has been taken very seriously by certain scientists. Prominent among them is astronomer Brandon Carter. Modern science estimates that it has taken 4 billion years for human beings to evolve from unicellular life forms. Carter has calculated that the average period for any evolution of this magnitude should take much longer - about 10 billion years. That is longer than the lifespan of a Sun-sized star, and much longer than the period of life-favorable conditions on Earth.

Answer 1

Praise be to Allah, the owner of the world and the heaven, surely the best of creators...

As salam mu alaikkum brother. Great information brother. I would like to add some of the Quranic verse along with that brother. Scientists today are able to observe the formation of stars from a hot gas cloud. Formation from a warm mass of gas also applies to the creation of the universe. The Big bang theory suggests the creation of stars basically from nothing... and surely the Quran shows us that Allah created the stars from totally nothing. Blessed is he whose hand is the dominion and he is able to do all things. Subhanallah.. Allah says in the Quran (Qur'an, 41:10-11)

" He placed firmly embedded mountains on it, towering over it, and blessed it and measured out its nourishment in it, laid out for those who seek it-all in four days. Then He turned to heaven when it was smoke and said to it and to the earth, "Come willingly or unwillingly." They both said, "We come willingly." "

And its only untill recently that scientists managed to conclude that the universe is expanding, but Allah(swt) said this in the Quran 1400 years ago. Allah says in the Quran (Qur'an, 51:47)

"And it is We Who have constructed the heaven with might, and verily, it is We Who are steadily expanding it."

Surely it is Alalh who is the best of creators and the best of guidance. Inshallah brother lets share what we know as much as we can. Inshallah may Allah (swt) guide you and bless you and all of us Inshallah (ameen)

Answer 2

The idea that the universe always existed was the standard scientific paradigm (the steady state universe) until Belgian Catholic priest Fr. Georges Lemaitre, physicist and astronomer, worked out that Einstein's general theory of relativity (GTR) implied that the universe would have collapsed eons ago unless it was expanding. Einstein was eventually won over and described Lemaitre's concept as the most beautiful description of creation he'd ever encountered. The theory was confirmed by Edwin Hubble's observational data confirming that the universe was expanding, and confirmation has kept coming ever since, including cosmic background microwave radiation and gravitational waves. The was the genesis of the search for a primordial event or singularity from which our universe emerged, misnamed Big Bang. There is zero scientific evidence for Traci's assertion: "The stuff 'stuff' of the universe always existed. It was never 'created.'" It is merely speculation by some scientists - usually atheist ones, and no one knows if it's completely idle or not. But she's right that people have a problem with infinity, but they have good reasons to be. Firstly, setting theology aside, infinity is a mathematical construct that mathematicians agree cannot exist in the real world. Secondly, an infinite past time doesn't make sense. Imagine an infinite calendar of days going backwards in time. How could the universe ever traverse that time span to reach today because there would always be one more day to get past? Thirdly, the second law of thermodynamics predicts that the energy constantly being burnt off by the fusion furnaces we call stars will eventually run out, but if our universe had an infinite past that event would have happened an infinite time ago, but as we're here that hasn't happened. Fourthly, even if the only end-of-universe scenario called the Big Bounce (caused because the density of the universe turns out to be above the critical point resulting in its collapse into a cosmic black hole from which a new universe is born), happened, some scientists calculate that because of the inevitable disorder in the process, each successive birth-death-rebirth cycle would be longer than the last. This means of course that each earlier cycle would be shorter than the last, but it is very difficult to see how a shortening cycle could be projected back indefinitely, because how short would a cycle have to get before it was not feasible? In any case, science's preferred end-of-universe scenario is the Big Freeze. The comparison between an infinite physical past in space-time dimensions and the eternal now attributed by philosophers and theologians is wholly invalid, and if Carl Sagan committed this error he should have known better. There is absolutely no logical problem facing theists in arguing for an eternal God whose existence is part of his very nature and who can have no possible constraints on his being such as a space-time dimension. God created the space-time dimension with which we are familiar and everything else in our own or any other universe and beholds what takes place in it from his eternal perspective.

Answer 3

The Spiritual realm is the blueprint to Physical Reality. Creation's goal is to expand the Universe. You and everything else are Creation.
Here is the formula: an idea or thought is born. Then sent through Creation. If the thought or idea benefits Creation, the thought becomes a Manifestation.

You must think and feel in more than one dimension. There are actually Seven Dimensions and Levels of Creation.

The Universe expands and then folds back into itself. Then it starts the process all over again creating new life and galaxies. The whole process takes about three trillion years.

A good analogy is to think of a blooming flower or plant. You start with a seed (consciousness) then go to a Sprout (expansion) then go to a bloom (Manifestation).

Nothingness is the canvas. It is permanent and stable, allowing a stage for the presentation called Life.

Answer 4

We mortals are at the infancy in discovering the truth of the universe. If I could bet, I';d say that the highest spiritual forces and powers exloded into these fragments we call the elemtns of space.

Answer 5

According to the quran the big bang is true but all by Allah. Its not common sense that a bang happened then everything just started nine planets orbiting around the sun, day and night, winter and summer, God ordered everything to happen

Answer 6

Allahu Akbar.

Answer 7

Why hello Mr. Anthropic Principle. If the universe wasn't like this then we wouldn't be on here discussing this. It is the same as if Hitler won WW2, if he did then we wouldn't be here, but since he didn't should we then attribute this to God because it allows us to exist?

It can be summed up like this, "If the universe was different, it would be different".

Answer 8

Another cut-n-paste job.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=%22We+live+in+an+amazing+universe.+It+is+a+universe+peculiarly+balanced%2C+and+purposefully+tempered+as+if+to+provide+a+safe+host+for+living+creatures.%22&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8

Do you ever have a thought for yourself?

1. Tautology.
2. M-theory
3. It is thought that these critical parameters actually may have very limited degrees of freedom.

I would say go and do some research, but seeing as you are just a cut-n-paste troll, why bother?

Answer 9

We can see matter creating itself in the laboratory, so that's not really an issue. What you need to understand is that 'nothing' can't really exist. It's a human concept that cannot occur in reality.

Answer 10

I believe that something created all of this I just don't know who or what. I'm an Agnostic Theist/Agnostic Deist but I'm also a Freethinker as well.