Creation: Was everything in the known universe created, did it just happen, did it evolve? Other options?

Question

Points to keep in mind:
1) Somthing from nothing.
2) Environmental changes and adaptation.
3) Religious belief.
4) Your own opinion.

Answer 1

Everything in the universe is permanent, though it may change forms (i.e. energy to matter). Nothing created it, nothing will destroy it.

1) There was never "nothing"
2) Environment changes form, but not existence
3) The argument for the permanency of matter is identical to the argument for the permanency of a God, but is a far simpler model and is therefore much more likely.
4) Yes, based on observation, education, and logic. But then, all answers to this question are opinion.

Answer 2

Since you have specified 'known universe' my answer is it was created. That creation was an intelligent evlution, meaning there was a positive, decisive, driving force behind the evolution. But the universe has beyond knowledge aspects. Things which cannot be known. The universe is beyond human knowledge. Those who think 'I know', don't actually know. Those who think 'I can't know' know somewhat.
At that level nothing was created and destroyed. It all existed allways. It is like a small intelligent ice cube from the refrigerator, when put in an intelligent pacific ocean, trying to understand what is Ocean. Actually ice cube is part of the ocean but due to the form and size it thinks it is different. There are so many potential ice cubes in the ocean too.

If you have to think of creation, then you need to think of destruction too. Because something which does not exist only can be created. Therefore there is a time sequence that comes in. At T1 it did not exit and at T2 it was created. Since at the level of the basic concepts of universe, time is non existent, actually it was neither created at all.

Answer 3

The Big Bang Theory
Is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the big bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter and in all directions.

Answer 4

Everything was created. There is a god, he lives, he is the grand governer of the universe, Matter is eternal. It cant be destroyed or eliminated, only changed.
Consider this thought, There is a law that states that something left to itself long enough will deterioriate to it's most basic form. The fact that the universe exisists, and is not shrinking, but ever growing and expanding with new worlds and stars being formed all the time, denotes a creator.

Answer 5

Everything did not come from NOTHING. It came from a densely-packed shape of energy and solids.
It expanded into everything we are, see, and measure today.

The difficult thing to comprehend is the universe. It is expanding outward in all directions. But the universe has an "end." Beyond the "end" of the expansion, there is nothing. As the universe moves outward, it becomes bigger, essentially "filling" the "nothing" with something; the universe.

Answer 6

"God created it all...it didn't just happen...especially since evolutionist cannot explain where the first atom, particle, whatever came from! it was just there forever...but how?"

Sorry but...
It's called anti-matter. To understand religion, study science, and then you can argue both sides :)

http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/tools/animation.html
http://www2.slac.stanford.edu/tip/special/cp.htm
http://www.positron.edu.au/faq.html

As you can see, these are reputable sources.

Now, to answer the question: Something from nothing. Look at the sources :P But there's oh, so many possibilities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#See_also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Origin_of_life

Then again, why does "nothing" have to "exist" ? Why can't we believe that there was never a beginning? Just because we can't understand it, doesn't mean it's not true.

Answer 7

My personal opinion: Everything in the known universe was created by god. God created humans who made a lot of inventions, but where would all the great ideas we have be if we weren't created in the first hand. Nothing just happens. Everything is a cause and effect. Do we evolve? if you mean do we grow- then yes. But if you mean we go from monkey to humans then No-I don't believe in evolution. I believe in the power of God. Hey...that's just me.

Answer 8

According to Aristotle and Ayn Rand, "existence exists" means it did not "happen," because for this to be, prior to the happening there was nothing. This theory is called "ex nihilo," or "out of nothing." It is impossible to get something from nothing. What "existence exists" means is the epistemological acceptance of your cognition of something existing. This acceptance places existence as the primary value in your metaphysics.
Tautologies do have a purpose.

Answer 9

Personal opinion/religious: God

Otherwise the question is a real head-scratcher. Great job! *Star!!!*

Answer 10

Everybody has an opinion ...my wish to you is to be open to science... look at numbers...read up on it ...religions are usually very narrow minded.