Going with the assumption that everything was created billions of years ago and humans evolved.... Isn't the most likely answer for the creation of the 1st atom currently a higher power.
2007-08-24 15:08:19 · 6 answers · asked by PAPA N 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no. atoms formed about 380,000 years after the big bang as a result of the continuing expansion of space. your higher power is not needed until much earlier times, and assuming that a 'higher power' of unknown nature did it is not useful. it is the end of discovery and exploration, it amounts to giving up any possibility of understanding.
2007-08-24 15:44:43 · answer #1 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are begging the question. Just because the universe MAY have a beginning in time 13.7 billion years ago does not mean it was created.
Beginnings are not necessarily creation events. The beginning of the temperature scale is absolute zero. Yet you don't claim temperature is created at absolute zero. The beginning of the natural numbers is zero.
Remember time is a derived aspect of the universe not something it is embedded in. If nothing were to change we could not say that times passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.
The problem with the god hypothesis is your god needs to be more complex and hence more unlikely than the reality you are attempting to explain. Saying your god just is, still leaves a much bigger question than you had to begin with.
Christians think by stating their god is timeless that this addresses the problem. It does not. The issue is not time, but one of complexity. The more complex a system is the more unlikely the possibility of that state just existing without exterior context. If a system has one bit the odds are one half. If a system has two bits of complexity the odds are one fourth etc .
Christians claim a god with infinite complexity and no external context. The odds for this are essentially zero.
2007-08-24 15:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. It is a possible answer, but not the most likely because it introduces a new problem of where did the higher power come from.
2007-08-24 15:14:24 · answer #3 · answered by mullah robertson 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Your sentence structure needs work. So it's hard to figure out what your saying. What created the higher power?
2007-08-24 15:17:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Then what created the higher power?
2007-08-24 15:16:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
ummm actually considering that matter can not be created or destroyed- there is no reason to believe that there was a "first atom". There was no beginning- the matter was already there.
2007-08-24 15:21:54 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋