are creation and destruction but the same?

Question

is to create something to destroy something else?

Answer 1

Creation and Destruction are most definitely not "the same", but do they always occur simultaneously? Whenever something is destroyed is something created and vice verse? Well, yes and no!

The No Side: The words "creation" and "destruction" are commonly used to connote purposeful action. One would say that a building was destroyed by the city to make room for a new freeway. In cases such as this, it would be confusing to say that the destruction of the building led to the "creation" of a big mess of rubble, because the rubble is merely an effect of the destruction, and was not actively or purposefully created. The position of the rubble is purely contingent, no creative work was put into arranging it as it lies, therefore this destruction did not legitimately lead to the creation of anything.

Conversely, to say that when the new building was built (created) this "destroyed" the disorder of the materials used in its construction also seems to be playing a game with language that we just don't find sensible. To say that you can "destroy" something which is already disordered goes against the typical use of the words.

The Yes Side: Everything in the universe is made of matter, energy, or some combination of the two. Any time a change occurs it is simultaneously a creation of something new, and a destruction of the old. If indeed the second law of thermodynamics holds true, entropy will continue to increase in the closed system of the universe until the ultimate destruction of matter leads to the ultimate creation of maximum entropy, and every single change that occurs on this path, is at once an example of both.

One could say that yes to create something is to destroy something else, and make a case for it, however, pragmatically in our everyday usage of the words on the open system of the Earth, it has little meaning to suggest this correlation.

~Nunayer Beezwax

Answer 2

Creation's goal is to build something of quality that lasts. Destruction's goal is to erase things which leaves a blank hole in history. So therefore, even though both create something they don't create the same end result. Therefore, they are not the same.

Answer 3

Hello,

(ANS) No! NOT necessarily, creation could be thought of as the bringing together of matter or substances but doesn't always imply the destruction of something else.

However, destruction could be thought of as the transformation of matter from one state to another. For example:- if you created a table made from wood and then set that table on fire, its matter is transformed into heat & light and then ash.

**The matter that made up the table still exists but now in a different form.

Ivan

Answer 4

It can be, I mean, you have to use resources to create something, thus depleting or destroying that resources. Also, creations, material for example, that are not made of organic or recyclable products, destroys the free space and the earth by taking up space in land fills, where everything eventually will end up.

Answer 5

For something to be created, something else must be destroyed. You can think of is as an entropy argument (the laws of thermodynamics) or a philosophical argument (to get past a trauma and start a new life, parts of the old life must die). Either way, while not flip sides of a coin, they do exist hand in glove.

Answer 6

well if matter and anti matter created the universe together then to create something you will also need something to destroy it. it works for every thing in life. every thing that grows too old and useless will need to be destroyed so that a younger and stronger thing can replace it.

Answer 7

Yes.
This is perceived as the same energy in opposite directions; in the Taoism the yang is the outward, the yin the return, and together the compose the Tao, the one, the whole.
In the Hindu, Vishnu is the creator, Siva the destroyer, but they are both Brahman.

etc.

Answer 8

Creation is another name for destruction, just as destruction is another name for creation.

Answer 9

by default "creation" gains its own meaning because it creates a "new" thing from basically provided raw materials and reconstruct them....not to destroy them....!!

BUT...sometimes you need to destroy old things in order to rebuild a new one...so it is considered as a part of creative process...

thanx

Answer 10

No otherwise each parent would be destroyed each time they gave birth. Creation is additional ....