I hear creationists saying that the Big Bang is false because "something" must have created all the matter and energy. These same people assert that God does not require a creator because he is eternal.
What I'm wondering is, why can't matter/energy be eternal? It seems like they should be, based on the laws of physics.
Why do they require a creator when we know that matter and energy cannot be created?
2007-10-29 02:13:16 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
energy/matter IS eternal, it's the law of conservation of energy/Matter....
energy/matter, cannot be created nor destroyed, only converted...
2007-10-29 02:19:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Matter and energy cannot be created - by us. We simply can't do it. We can convert the forms of matter and energy around us and manipulate them, but we cannot create matter and energy out of nothing. Only God has been able to do that! That's why they need a creator in order to exist.
God IS eternal. He isn't just some form of matter or energy. We don't understand how He could always exist with no beginning because everything around us has a beginning and an end. We are temporal beings. It limits us and shapes our minds too.
2007-10-29 02:26:05 · answer #2 · answered by Blue Eyed Christian 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When you speak about something being "eternal" you have to define the term more specifically. God is "eternal" in that He has no beginning or ending. Matter/energy have a beginning although if God wills it, they can last for the rest of eternity.
Why do they require a creator when we know that matter and energy cannot be created?
That's an excellent question. We know of no natural explanation that would tell us how matter and energy came about. Something cannot come from nothing and so the default naturalistic explanation is that matter and energy have just always existed and it's one of those ancient mysteries that we don't have an explanation for.
That's a very unsatisfactory explanation for an inquiring mind. Before I became a Christian I used to think about it and I realized that scientists don't have all of the answers, that the universe didn't make sense when it was explained by only scientific principles.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons that the Apostle Paul wrote this statement about people knowing about God.
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20 For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools,
It would seem that Paul was claiming that a rational person should be able to figure out that there is a creator God by pondering the world and the universe about them. He goes on to say that because people didn't want to honor their Creator they came up with wild theories that made it sound like they were smart but in reality they were fools.
Back then they made idols and called them gods. Today many people make "nothing" their god as they continue the pattern of relying solely upon their own intellect and deny the revelation that God has given to mankind in the Scriptures and the natural revelation He has given to us in his creation.
2007-10-29 02:33:57 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some Creationists believe that the Big bang is false. But all creationists believe that God created the Universe and all its matter not eternal. If God will create an eternal matter, it would be God Himself.
2007-10-29 02:17:49 · answer #4 · answered by lit-the-light 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, I wouldn't label myself a "creationist" in the way that you mean, though I do believe in God and that He created all things. I believe that all matter and energy is eternal. When I say that God "created all things", I mean that He organized matter and energy and continues to do so, according to His purposes.
2007-10-29 02:30:05 · answer #5 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Occams razor. The big bang requires a point mass to create the universe as we know it. Creationism not only requires the same amount of mass, it requires something outside the four dimensions as we know them. This outside thing must be able to store and process information, and act within the four dimensions we know. This requires some sort of way of not only data storage for his own function, but data storage and processing and energy for "snapping into being" matter in a low entropy state. Only one assumption and mininum energy is needed for the big bang arguement--a huge amount of energy, an extra dimensional intellegence and creation of mass from energy is required for creationism. So by Occams razor, which is the simpler proposition?
2007-10-29 02:25:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because matter and energy is all a part of God's creation. All matter and all energy God made a purpose for it's use. We can't even phanthom everything God has created it for to be use on this earth and out in space. Take a close look at your skins why is there little organisms live on it? the organisms are a protection for us, we would not have know that if we did not look into the reasons for it.
2007-10-29 02:24:31 · answer #7 · answered by EBONY 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The laws of thermodynamics declares that matter and energy can not be created or destroyed. but at the same time we know that the universe did have a starting point. Also you miss the point, God is not created out of matter or energy, he is the creator.
2007-10-29 02:28:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
They are.
Matter and Energy is Eternal.
After they (the above) go back to their Eternal Substance of "FAITH"---Faith is the SubStance (real Spiritual Stuff here!) of Things Hoped For.
GOD Created EveryThing out of "Faith".
Faith comes from GOD. (it is Strange in the Spiritual Realm! :)
GOD is Eternal.
I Rest my Case and my Butt Too!!! (gotta new Job! Thanky Jesus! and Getting Used to it, lots of Walking)
I AM Old Too! ;)
example: (Not Talking Eternal here) PlayDough---you gotta' ball of PlayDough and you Make Things out of it (aimals, cars so on).
For a While, the PlayDough becomes different types of "Things"---but basically, it is Still PlayDough. You can reform different Things just by mashing the Other Things back into the Original Ball of PlayDough.
Faith is Eternal, no matter What it is Used to Make!
(I really Think GOD uses's the Black Holes to smash EveryThing back into the Faith Substance so HE can Make more Things outta' It, but, I could be Wrong too!)
Hope this helps.
2007-10-29 02:26:13 · answer #9 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How about a Creationist who is willing to accept that God could have used science (the Big Bang theory) to create the universe?
Ya know, not all Christians believe the Bible literally. It didn't take 7 normal days to create the universe. It probably took a billion years. God surely used science to do it!
Wow what a concept. A Christian who ALSO uses rational thought.
2007-10-29 02:20:43 · answer #10 · answered by Kiwi 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Matter and energy CAN be as eternal as the universe but as you know this hypothesis does not negate the possible existance of a deity either
2007-10-29 02:23:36 · answer #11 · answered by Hope 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋