When God created the universe was it a baby universe or a full-grown universe?

Answer 1

i think its always expanding ... we just have a small slice of time in it all ..

Answer 2

I'm going to say it was a full-grown universe.

I'm not a fan of the Big Bang theory and think the theory will eventually be discarded. Inconsistent observations of problematic red-shifts are being ignored by cosmologists because they are so attached to some of the current theories.

The bulk of the matter in the universe is just too well organized to be a product of some giant explosion. 99% of the matter in the universe is in stars that are neatly orbiting around in millions of galaxies. If the matter in the universe wasn't organized this way, we would have debris floating around in all directions -- suns floating through space that would eventual fall under the gravity of each other and collide. It would be complete havoc if the all the billions and billions of stars were not gravitationally attached to some galaxy, and orbiting them in an orderly fashion. I think it's much more realistic that a giant explosion like in the Big Bang would have produced a universe where matter was floating around in space in every which way. So I don't find it a plausible explanation for the start of the universe.

Answer 3

You know, some of you people on Yahoo Answers ask really good questions! I've actually been thinking about this for several minutes! You gave me something to think about!

If you look at the history of science, the known size (and age!) of the universe has grown constantly for thousands of years! The Aristotelian universe, that series of concentric spheres with the earth the center, was thought to be 4000 miles in diameter! Even 100 years ago people thought the universe was much smaller than we think now.

Christians used to believe in the Aristotelian, earth-centered universe as a matter of faith, just as they believe in creationism today as a matter of faith. The old earth-centered view of the universe eventually became 'untenable' and they gave it up. They will do the same with Creationism in a few more years or decades, it's inevitable I think.

But I digress. Even Christians today who insist (childishly, I believe) that the universe is only 6000 years old, agree that it is bigger than once thought, and even that it is expanding. They don't like the Big Bang theory because it's too 'scientific'. So maybe you could get one of them to admit that since it is growing, and always has been, perhaps God created it in that condition, with that in mind!

Answer 4

I believe that God created a baby universe and we are making a full-grown universe.

Answer 5

The Universe was created much smaller than it is now. It has expanded ever since the Big Bang. As time passes it get older. If we look back in time it looks younger/smaller.

Simple answer: the universe ages and we can trust the Creator not to create a deceptively old-looking or young-looking universe.

He is Truth and there is no deceit in Him.

Answer 6

Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Gen 1:6 And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Gen 1:7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Gen 1:8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Gen 1:9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Gen 1:10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Gen 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.
Gen 1:16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.

Answer 7

I see no evidence the universe was created at all, let alone by a god. Don't confuse beginnings with creation events.

Answer 8

The actual void, the nothingness, was there all the time. Then the Big Bang threw all available matter into that space - and it's still expanding into that space.
Define universe?
God? Who?

Answer 9

nobody here was around when the universe was created so how would anyone know;

Job 38:4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

Answer 10

Everything was new but a maturity of things were created aged.

Answer 11

I have to say that even though I do not have an answer for you (primarily because I think the Bible is fictional), this is one of the most original thoughts I have read in days. :) You made me smile!

Star for you!