If the universe started as a complete void, where did God come from? What came first atoms that formed gases which started the sequence of events or did God start this sequence?
2007-07-14 13:13:40 · 10 answers · asked by magillajoemonkey 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
An unmoved mover must be accepted to make sense of the fact of change.
Nature of God
Aquinas felt that the existence of God is neither self-evident nor beyond proof. In the Summa Theologica, he considered in great detail five rational proofs for the existence of God. These are widely known as the quinquae viae, or the "Five Ways."
Concerning the nature of God, Aquinas felt the best approach, commonly called the via negativa, is to consider what God is not. This led him to propose five positive statements about the divine qualities:
God is simple, without composition of parts, such as body and soul, or matter and form.
God is perfect, lacking nothing. That is, God is distinguished from other beings on account of God's complete actuality.
God is infinite. That is, God is not finite in the ways that created beings are physically, intellectually, and emotionally limited. This infinity is to be distinguished from infinity of size and infinity of number.
God is immutable, incapable of change on the levels of God's essence and character.
God is one, without diversification within God's self. The unity of God is such that God's essence is the same as God's existence. In Aquinas's words, "in itself the proposition 'God exists' is necessarily true, for in it subject and predicate are the same."
2007-07-14 13:19:41 · answer #1 · answered by jsardi56 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. However, they would gravitate toward each other very, veeeeery slowly. Addendum: wilde_space - "I don't think so. At such distances, dark energy takes over gravity. Those two atoms will be moving away from each other." Dark energy is hypothetical. The question is whether the vacuum these two atoms are in is expanding or contracting, and, if it is expanding, whether the expansion rate is greater than the rate of acceleration of the two atoms. In any case, the two atoms will gravitate towards each other regardless. If the expansion rate is greater than the atoms' acceleration rate, the two atoms will still move towards each other, but the distance between them will increase because the space between them will increase faster than they can move towards each other.
2016-05-17 22:34:24 · answer #2 · answered by jessie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says something came from nothing? Energy/matter are permanent! They have not always been evenly distributed, but they have always existed in some form.
Why can so many accept the concept of a permanent God, but shuck off the far simpler concept of permanent energy/matter?
The substance that forms matter and energy has always existed. The concept that something MUST have a beginning (and therefor nothingness that precedes it) is simply a confusion brought on by the human perception of dimensions. We think of time like we do the other dimensions in our lives, like length, width, and depth. Since they have limitiations (beginnings and ends), so must time. But time is infinite, as is the related stuff we have come to know in various forms of energy and matter.
The universe has always had a substance in it, just as time has always passed in it.
2007-07-14 13:20:07 · answer #3 · answered by freebird 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If you are speaking of philosophy, you are asking one of the unresolved questions of faith. It can only be answered by belief. For even if science comes up with some mechanism, we will then ask where the mechanism came from.
As to St. Thomas Aquinas, his reasoning is faulty as his reasoning is cyclical. and boils down to this... God is because God is. In the discipline of Logic, its called "Begging the question."
As for science, there is a theory as to how this universe came into existence and it involves too much detail to discuss here. It is a part of quantum theory.
2007-07-14 14:02:23 · answer #4 · answered by David D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who is sane? that is an assumption. and a lot of early scientist must have been insane since they had nothing to go on except their beliefs. and only when they proved themselves right in experimentation did they formulate an explanation.
The question is a good one. and the answer is simply "I don't know" unless we can travel back in time, science may never answer this question.
but for those who do believe in god, the answer is simple.
2007-07-14 13:24:36 · answer #5 · answered by Ashamed2beHuman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God didn't come from anywhere; He never began to exist, nor will He ever cease to exist. The universe came from God. That is why we believe He created the universe- He did make something from nothing, and He's the only being with that ability.
2007-07-14 13:22:47 · answer #6 · answered by csbp029 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What if all physical existence is something that is projected on our consciousness (like in the movie 'Matrix').
What if we (as individuals) are small fragments of consciousness, and God is the sum total of all individual consciousnesses (like the force, in 'Star Wars').
What if this consciousness (God) came out of nothingness at some time in the past, divided itself into fragments of consciousness (Us) and is projecting everything in the physical world (including evidence of the big bang) onto our senses?
2007-07-15 07:00:47 · answer #7 · answered by kpety 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nothing is something
Its a show about nothn -- well something happens .. LOL
2007-07-14 13:21:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
only God knows .
2007-07-14 13:30:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know. I don't think anyone (who is sane) does.
2007-07-14 13:16:23 · answer #10 · answered by arfblat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋