If the universe is approx 14 billion years old, who gave birth to it?

Question

How old is the space that contains the universe? (must be older than the actual universe)
Who created the space that contains the universe?
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101age.html

salient2 (below) Time is the difference between to points. It is not a material thing.

If you go beyond the outtermost galaxy, this is the space that I speak of in the opening post.

Answer 1

Who says someone NEEDED to give birth to it?

Do you have a few billion light years' worth of guaranteed "God-free" space to compare it to, to prove that a universe can only exist if there's divine intervention to make it happen?

Answer 2

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
Genesis 1:1

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."
John 1:1 - 4

How old is the universe, space, and the earth?
It is not as old as scientists are telling people.
You can read the book that I read in my university;
"Introducing the Old Testament" By Clyde T. Francisco
Broadman Press
ISBN # 0-8054-1213-1
Also read the Old Testament Bible. Start in Genesis to Malachi. Where are 14 billion years at that has pasted that scientists are so claiming? The earth, universe, and space is around 6,000 years old at the most. I have always been taught that outside of government public schools. If you went to public schools, they teach millions or billions. That is not so.

Also look up information on Ken Ham. He has studied the universe, earth, space, and the age of it all. He is a widely known speaker. He is a very intelligent man on the subject you are asking about. Do a search on the internet, or book store.

I have a degree in science. Evolution also has never been proven to be true by scientists. It is just a theory. Theory is not fact. They can not continually come up with skeletons of dead people that have gradually changed over the years from animals (example; apes) to human beings. This is just to show you how easily it is for educated scientists to give false information sometimes!

Answer 3

The space of which you speak of IS the universe. Scientists had made a major scientific discovery that was first recorded in the Bible some 3,500 years ago: The universe was not eternal; it had a beginning. Other discoveries, such as the radioactive decay of certain elements, confirmed that these elements could not be infinitely old or they would long since have turned to lead.

As long as scientists and philosophers assumed the universe had infinitely existed—that it had no beginning and thus no need for a Creator to create it—they could easily leave God out of the picture. Few scientists persist in believing in an infinitely old earth and universe. There is simply too much evidence against it. They have been forced to acknowledge that we live in a universe that had a beginning.

It is at this point that science stops in its tracks. As Professor Jastrow explains: "A sound explanation may exist for the explosive birth of our Universe; but if it does, science cannot find out what the explanation is. The scientist's pursuit of the past ends in the moment of creation . . . We would like to pursue that inquiry farther back in time, but the barrier to further progress seems insurmountable. It is not a matter of another year, another decade of work, another measurement, or another theory; at this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation" (God and the Astronomers, 1978, pp. 114-116).

Professor Jastrow acknowledges that everything scientists know breaks down at the moment of creation. The known laws of the universe simply no longer apply when the universe leaps into existence from nothing. Science can offer no rational explanation, no means to record, measure or reconstruct an event that defies all scientific understanding.

Some scientists draw incorrect conclusions from these facts, assuming that, since science can't discover what took place before the universe was formed, nothing could have happened before it was formed. This tells us nothing about God's existence or nonexistence, but it does say a lot about the limitations of the traditional scientific approach. We must seek a source other than science to understand who or what existed before the origin of the universe. And only one source offers a truly believable and rational explanation—the Bible.

There is only one alternative to the biblical claim. Atheists must assert that the entire universe came from nothing without a cause. They must insist on this unfounded, insupportable assertion because there is no other way to avoid the existence of a First Cause.

Yet their most basic assertion is fundamentally flawed. The beginning of the universe has been proven to be a specific event. We all know from years and years of experience that one of the most fundamental truths is that events have causes. This fundamental truth underlies the laws that govern energy and matter. Nothing happens without a cause. The beginning of the universe is an event that had a specific cause.

The Bible's claims

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," says the Bible (Genesis 1:1). This is a simple statement, but it answers the most basic and scientific of all questions: Where did we come from?

This verse describes the beginning of the universe. The universe had a beginning caused by a timeless, changeless force outside of this physical universe. When matter came into existence, this was the beginning of time as we measure it. For the origin of the universe, this verse answers the questions of who, what and when. The why comes a little later.

Hebrews 11:3 adds another detail: "By faith [by trusting what God has revealed] we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible" (New Revised Standard Version).

Two things should be noted in this explanation. First, the universe did have a cause; it came from something. What it came from was not visible; that is, it was not preexisting matter. Scripture tells us our universe had a cause—truly a scientific statement.

Second, it tells us that by faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the Word of God. But this is not blind faith. We are not asked to believe that it popped into existence without a cause and without a purpose—the tenets of the faith of an atheist. We are asked to believe that the world had its beginning as the free act of a Being who is timeless and powerful enough to bring the universe into being.

Answer 4

Nobody knows anything about the conditions before the Big Bang. Anyone that claims to is simply a charlatan. Stephen Hawking successfully proved that time (as we know it) began at the moment of the Big Bang. Nobody has a clue as to what happened before time began.

Personally, I imagine (that's imagine) that before the Big Bang there existed an infinite three-dimensional void, which was eternal because there was no time. After the Big Bang, a spherical universe formed, with the bounding surface expanding away from the center at the speed of light. Inside the spherical boundary, there exists our present universe of space-time. Outside the boundary, there still exists an infinite three dimensional void of timeless space. The source of the energy that caused the Big Bang is unknown, but my favorite speculation is that it came from the collision of two neighboring M-branes (parallel universes). Currently, the known universe is a sphere with a radius of 14.7 Billion light-years. That's little more than my own educated guess.

Answer 5

Q) If the universe is approx 14 billion years old, who gave birth to it?
A) Nobody

Q) How old is the space that contains the universe?
- (must be older than the actual universe)
A) There is no way I know of for us to know the answer.
- Why does it have to be older?

Q) Who created the space that contains the universe?
A) Nobody

Answer 6

We cannot see anything that happened during the first 300 000 years of the Universe. Scientists try to work it out from their knowledge of atomic particles and from computer models.

The only direct evidence of the Big Bang itself is a faint glow in space. Spacecraft and telescopes on balloons see this as a patchy pattern of slightly warmer and cooler gas all around us. These ripples also show where the hydrogen clouds were slightly denser.

As millions of years passed, the dense areas pulled in material because they had more gravity. Finally, about 100 million years after the Big Bang, the gas became hot and dense enough for the first stars to form.

New stars were being born at a rate 10 times higher than in the present-day Universe. Large clusters of stars soon became the first galaxies.

The Hubble Space Telescope and powerful ground-based telescopes are now beginning to find galaxies that were created about one billion years after the Big Bang. These small galaxies were much closer together than galaxies are today. Collisions were common. Like two flames moving towards each other, they merged into bigger galaxies. Our Milky Way galaxy came together in this way.

Answer 7

I know it's hard to understand, but the space that contains the observable universe IS part of the universe, and grows as the universe expands. It is not older. The concept of the space-time continuum is an easy one to misunderstand, and has no immediately comparable correllation.

there is no evidence of an external creator, or that the universe needed to be created. Cosmology is a relatively young science; I expect we'll have better theories in the coming centuries.

Answer 8

The space-time and its contents IS the universe. Why would you assume anything was created let alone by a who.

I never said time was a material thing, but it is derived from that which makes up the universe. If nothing were to change it would be meaningless to say time has changed, so it would seem time is derived from the difference between states of the universe.

Answer 9

No one, it's not alive so it can't be born. Scientists are currently working on that one (recently discovered and named dark matter). Again it was discovered a few years ago, give time and research.

Science isn't arrogant regarding the origin of the universe, current theories could be either wrong or right but it is what we know right now due to the evidence available, but the more time we research it the more closer we get to the truth, just give it time. Besides we have more evidence supporting the big bang theory than some farmers did centuries ago.

Answer 10

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