Why is it hard for humans to grasp the concept of a universe that just existed?

Question

Why is it hard for people including me to grasp the concept of a universe that just existed even before Earth was created and before that how did the universe come to be? Did it just happen? It's weird even talking about it but want to know your thoughts.Doesn't this point to some sort of creator?

Answer 1

No, because however hard it is to rationalize a natural Universe, it is much harder to rationalize a miraculous, divinely created one. We need not jump to a god to explain things that are hard for us to conceive. Trying to imagine anything about the Universe as a whole, is perplexing, if not impossible. When you think about it, that is what one should expect from something like a Universe.

Andrew, Occam's razor probably applies more appropriately to this issue than to any other that can be considered.

Answer 2

For the most part, everything we observe has a cause or beginning. The universe is "winding down" or decaying, so it's only logical to infer that something or someone caused the start of the universe and life. It's up to us to figure out how, when and why this happened.
We can believe it was God that created everything as we have His true Word in the Bible to tell us that He created the universe "In the beginning"--- Genesis 1.
An even harder concept to grasp for some people is that God is eternal, is above the laws of nature and has the power to create everything from nothing just by speaking it into existence. We have His Word, inspired and directed by God to be written by men, in the books of the Bible to explain Him to us and help us understand.

Answer 3

Well, there had to be a "creator", but no particular reason to believe that the "creator" was conscious over just some random quantum effect (note: this is equally valid reversing the order).

In the current model for the universe's creation, it took billions (on the high end) of years just to create enough heavy elements to allow carbon-based life forms to exist at all. Modern humans have only existed for a bit over 100,000 years (from fossil and DNA records).

However, humans have always been very good at assuming that the universe revolves around them. Thus it is hard for us to imagine that there was billions of years spent making this universe ready for us to inhabit :).

Answer 4

i think every thinking person to ever walk the planet has at sometime in there lifes looked out into space and asked them selfs those type of questions, its hard to get your head around because you can see and feel the universe your standing in but have no way of knowing why or how i dont think this points to a creator but i think its something cool that every living thing in the universe with a inteligent mind has in common is the question

Answer 5

It may point to some sort of creator, but there is no expalnation for any of it, just speculation. The problem is that soem people insist that they know the unknowable.