Poll: How do you think the universe was created?

Question

How do you think the universe was created.. religious or non-religious beliefs can be used

Answer 1

Yea the Big Bang theory... God spoke and BANG it happend

Answer 2

The Big Bang of course. The earliest and most direct kinds of observational evidence are the Hubble-type expansion seen in the redshifts of galaxies, the detailed measurements of the cosmic microwave background, and the abundance of light elements (see Big Bang nucleosynthesis). These are sometimes called the three pillars of the big bang theory. Many other lines of evidence now support the picture, notably various properties of the large-scale structure of the cosmos which are predicted to occur due to gravitational growth of structure in the standard Big Bang theory.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_spectrumHubble's law has two possible explanations. Either we are at the center of an explosion of galaxies—which is untenable given the Copernican principle—or the universe is uniformly expanding everywhere. This universal expansion was considered mathematically in the context of general relativity well before Hubble made his analysis and observations, and it remains the cornerstone of the Big Bang theory as developed by Friedmann, Lemaître, Robertson and Walker.

The theory requires the relation v = HD to hold at all times, where D is the proper distance, v = dD / dt, and v, H, and D all vary as the universe expands (hence we write H0 to denote the present-day Hubble "constant"). For distances much smaller than the size of the observable universe, the Hubble redshift can be thought of as the Doppler shift corresponding to the recession velocity v. However, the redshift is not a true Doppler shift, but rather the result of the expansion of the universe between the time the light was emitted and the time that it was detected.[35]

Answer 3

The Universe wasn't created, it evolved. Therefore if you want to add religion into it, ask this in the R&S section.
Astronomy is about the scientific study of the cosmos.
There are many different areas of Astronomy that are studied by different people all throughout the world.
Many of these studies have very little to do with trying to understand how the universe came to be. For the most part, astronomers spend their time making real time observations and then pouring over masses of data, rather than trying to deal with almost meaningless philosophy or deciphering myths. How the universe evolved is irrelevent to most, unless it is the actual field they choose to pursue. Their time is spent on ensuring their own findings from their own observations are correct. It takes to much of their time to, again unless it is specifically their vocation, try to debunk something that is readily accepted in their field. An easy example is someone that just studies variable stars. All their time is spent looking over their ephemerides and making comparisons in their findings.
Thus, whatever you or I think is also irrelevent unless you wish to dedicate your life to trying to prove or disprove evolution.

Answer 4

I don't think the universe was created in the first place. Therefor I think that you are asking the wrong question.

For the same reason I also think that your question does not make sense outside of a religious setting. Science does not deal with questions that fall outside of science. Many religions, on the other hand, seem to love to deal with questions which fall outside of their own realm.

I would add as a note that in my experience real theology does usually not deal with questions which fall outside of theology. It is therefor a much better defined discipline than any religion.

You might get better results if you ask for

What is your scientific notion of the origin of the universe?

What is your theological notion of the creation of the world?

Assuming, of course, that you are interested in real results other than yet another religion/atheism battle on Yahoo?

Are you?

Answer 5

Big Bang Theory

Answer 6

I think a natural event: The Big Bang.

Answer 7

I think its largely irrelevant. I'm more concerned with what's going on inside of it. How would it change your life to find out how it came to be? All an answer would provide to me is a more focused fear of how it will end.

Answer 8

I'm sticking to creation because it sounds a lot more hopeful.

The big bang sounds tooo.....cold..

Answer 9

God farted and ka-boom! Universe!

Answer 10

God Almighty! :D