Do you believe the universe had a cause?

Answer 1

look at it this way

if there was no universe ,
there would be nothing
and if there was nothing
what would there be?

nothing would be there.. what would it look like?

Answer 2

Our experience is that everything we know has a cause. Trees and all plants come from seeds of one sort or other. All animals, including our own bodies, have been "caused" by a previously existing other usually two, animals. Even rocks have a history, we think, on very compelling evidence. Our earth itself, we think, came into existence by means of gravity pulling together free material - ditto the Sun. The current Big Bang theory is that all the universe appears to have started - time itself seems to have had a beginning - some six or so thousand million years ago. Pretty mind boggling stuff hey?

But our experience is that things in general never seem to merely come into existence WITHOUT some cause of some sort, always of the same kind as the thing caused - in what we experience and speculate.

But the Cause of the Universe - it would seem - must be something Other than that Universe - otherwise it would have to be part of that universe.

For these reasons, yes, I do believe that the Universe does have a cause. It is a glory of the human race that we have come so far as to suspect something of a Being beyond the furthest galaxies, as well as within the whole of the universe, whom we have named "GOOD"> I hope you spotted the deliberate "mistake".

Answer 3

This is controversial. I believe we humans were doomed from the start. The earth shall soon fall into the embrace of the sun. However, if the humans flee to the moon before it does, then we'll be safe - temporarily. Because the Milky Way Galaxy is continuously expanding and expanding and soon it will explode, along with its death is us. The universe, I believe, was created by the big bang. Of course religious people will find their god to be the creator, ruler, etc. But I`m just not one of those people. I don`t think it has a cause at all, just an accident or something.

Answer 4

No.

Well, OK, not if you define 'the universe' as 'everything that exists'. This essentially resolves itself to the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' And it turns out, if you think about it, that this question actually has no possible answer. You can't explain it by invoking a deity, because that deity also needs explaining (it's part of the something we're asking why about). You can't explain it by invoking any cause. It's the true unanswerable question, and not because we don't know the answer.

The point is that there literally is no answer.

It just is.

Answer 5

No. i don't believe that universe had cause. Why? You just can't explain how they got there besides gases or other stuff. I really don't know anything else that would be able 2 cause the universe.

Answer 6

I certainly do. Even with the Big Bang Theory, there is no explanation as to how that little ball of matter and energy got there and why it suddenly exploded to create the universe. Of course science does not delve into the why's of the universe, only the how's. There is too much complexity and beauty in this world, even though it is flawed, to imagine that it all happened by accident without a cause. To me that is a greater leap of faith than to believe in a creator.

Answer 7

Do you mean a cause for being or that it was caused by something/someone?

On either, account, I'd say no. The stars aligned, so to speak, to create the big bang and it happened. There is no reason it happened, it just did because the conditions were right. As such it was not caused by anything and it was not formed for a reason.

Answer 8

Why are you asking this questionin the past tense as though the Universe is over? I believe that if you can figure out what our cause is you might get close to the answer you're looking for

Answer 9

No: I believe everything is mathematics ( necessary logical truth ) and that causality is nothing more than an illusion.

I believe the reality we see only looks like space and time because we see so little of it. Nothing is ever really created. The key here is a powerful selection effect (our existence ) which selects the portion of reality we find ourselves in. Only in very interesting portions (ones that appear as rapidly expanding space-time) of this vast infinite reality could we evolve.

Our understanding of reality is layered. You see the world in terms of large physical objects. But you are aware that those are illusions made up of atoms, and atoms in turn are made of smaller particles. Many believe that these so called "fundamental" particles are not fundamental but are built on a layer of mathematical objects called strings. My belief is that all reality including space-time itself is built upon mathematics and mathematics is what is truly fundamental.

The reason why we see top layers instead of lower layers is due to our inability to see all of the the details in the lower layers.

Answer 10

I think we live in an amazing universe that supports many life forms. A possible reason for the universe is existance, experience, evolution.

Answer 11

No.

There is no certain cause for the Universe and everything in it.

It just happens as it happens day by day, and has for billions of years.

The beauty of being human is the ability to make goals, and give yourself a cause, instead of following someone else's.