Atheists, Christians, and others...can you explain, please, where YOU, personally, think "matter" came from?

Question

Seriously, how do you think the particles that make up everything that exists came to be?
Again, how do you think life began? How and why did living things ever become conscious?
If you think "Godidit" (as I do), WHY do you think He did? And do you ever wonder if HE, also, had a "beginning"?
If you believe in "other gods and/or goddesses", I am very interested in hearing YOUR ideas about "The Beginning"...

If you don't believe in God, do you have a "better" alternate explanation?

If you think the universe "always existed", do you think it will one day end? What is "entropy" and why does it exist?

Please be polite and respectful of others whose ideas differ from your own...

s7e28w81, no, I didn't interchange the words "believe" and "think"...I am interested in learning peoples THOUGHTS on our beginnings.
And while we're on the subject of grammar, what does "best-worst" mean?
Is this an oxy-moron??? I think so!!

OH, and to answer your question, no, I didn't go through "possible explanations" and to choose the "best alternative". I am basically asking those who don't believe in a Creator IF they THINK they have a better alternative.
So far, nobody seems to...

"least worst"??
STILL an oxymoron....

Answer 1

Matter seperated from energy in the first fraction of a second, when the singularity had expanded to the size of a grapefruit.

This first appearance of matter was in the form of subatomic particles. In the next fraction of a second these subatomic particles combined to make protons and neutrons. In the next few seconds protons and neutrons bonded to make lots of hydrogen, some helium and relative traces of lithium. Heavier elements did not appear until 100 million years later when first generation stars fused hydrogen/helium/lithium.

Answer 2

Every creation has a beginning; and every creation will eventually come to its own finish line. We classify the laws of physics as laws because of things that exist. It was also God (who created the physical universe) who set the laws of things that He created--for man's good--that is, for efficient service to Him.

Proverbs 8:29 "When he gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth:"

See. This is the reason why I can't answer you using the science of men. We have to understand the knowledge and science of God.

Hebrews 11:3 says,
"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear."

The visible world wasn't ever-existent. There was a time that there was no matter until the Word of God framed them to be.

God is not a creature; therefore He has no beginning, nor will have an end.

Psalms 90:2
"Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting, to everlasting, thou art God."

This is a broad topic. This limited space won't be able to hold everything that can help you understand. But I hope you had a glimpse of what I'm trying to say.

Have a nice day.

Answer 3

A better alternative. Is that why you believe in God? Because it is the least worst explanation?

You also interchanged the words believe and think. These are crucial in any debate about god (as is the word knowing) If you only think something, can you really BELIEVE that it is true, or only think it is true?

For me BELIEVING is KNOWING, which is something that none of use will ever achieve. I Do not know if there is a god and I do not KNOW that there isn't one. I hope there is and I think there is, but I will not rule out the other options.

PS- I have been wrong many times in life, and am assuming that I will be wrong again. Maybe even in this area.

I would suggest rereading this. No where does it say best worst. It says "least worst".

Answer 4

I don't think matter ever came to be, based on the law of conservation of matter. I think it has always existed.

I think life began when self-replicating DNA strands first formed from simpler strands. I'm not entirely sure how this happened.

Consciousness is an evolutionary advantage because it promotes survival; I can't explain how it arises but I think the best argument is given in the book Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.

I don't believe in any gods. I do believe there are better alternate explanations for the formation of life. For example, the RNA world hypothesis and the clay hypothesis. (There are others, I just can't remember the names.)

I don't know how or if the universe will end.

Entropy (roughly speaking) is a measure of the available energy in a system. I don't know why it exists.

Answer 5

I love how people think that the universe could have always existed; and yet the Second Law of Thermodynamics predicts that a universe that has eternally existed would have died out an eternity ago.

I believe that God made everything, because there are somethings that just aren't explainable, like science. If the creation of the universe was random, chaotic, and unpredictable, modern scientific investigation could never have been developed.

Answer 6

If matter came to be (not an established fact, could be eternal) its source is outside of space/time, and is therefore not related to our universe in a way that the word "cause" (a time bound concept) can be meaningfully applied to it. This misapplication of the term "cause" is the reason why God cannot be said to have a beginning, either, since he is also said to exist outside of space/time. In other words, this question, and any attempted answers (including "God did it") is nonsense.

Life began through abiogenesis, an established scientific fact. Even the dirt to man view in creationism is a form of abiogenesis.

It appears that proto-mental properties are a basic constituent of all things. (1) Becoming "conscious" is thus only a matter of complexity.

Answer 7

God did it in my opinion.

The problem is that we seem to think that God is a person or a being of some sort.

God is just energy, with a mind.

I believe the Big Bang theory...but that God was the master mind of it all....

Too many random events happened that was a coincidence that we are even here, that's much for me the fathom.. I don't believe that by sheer coincidences and random events made everything come together so perfectly...

Answer 8

I don't know how or if the universe started. The math of the Big Bang is way beyond me, to be honest. Apparently there is considerable reason to think it is how things blinked into their present state. On the other hand, there seems very little reason to believe some supernatural agency caused this.

Answer 9

The First Law of Thermodynamics implies that it was always here.

Added: I didn't see the Entrophy part. Entorphy is tough to explain quickly. To an extent it is how ordered things are. But it takes into account energy input. So adding energy would allow the system to become ordered.

Answer 10

There are some intriguing scientific hypothesi that require more investigation to determine their validity. Also, of course is the judeochristian/muslim cults' fairy tales about mythical supernatural beings magically creating stuff. The simple answer is we don't know yet, and if you are too immature to handle that then you can choose to believe the religious cult fairy tales.