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The Big Bang was caused by flunctuations in the quantum world. Huge amounts of space and energy came into the universe.
Genesis 1 says "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
I was bored this afternoon and started thinking about random stuff and this idea came to my mind:
It says that God *created* the heavens and the earth, it doesn't say that He spawned or summoned the aforementioned things, He created them. You need materials to create something.
The Big Bang produced huge amounts of energy and space. God created the heavens and the earth. Nowhere in the Bible does it say that God produced energy and space. However, matter (heavens and earth) and energy are basically the same thing (e=mc^2). You can turn energy into mass and viceversa. What if God *created* all matter (the heavens, earth, gases, nebulae, etc.) from the energy produced by the Big Bang?
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- ?Lv 78 years agoFavorite Answer
I think that you made up nonsense.
For thousands of years, people have said that their gods were behind what they didn't understand -- life, lightning, stars, earthquakes, the origin of life, the world or the universe, etc. Positing a god to supposedly answer a question solves nothing. It just adds an unwarranted level of complexity and stops you from asking more questions.
It used to be that science couldn't answer the question about the origin of the universe or of the Big Bang, but that didn't mean we should make up an answer (such as a god) and say that it was the cause. Within the last few decades scientists have discovered some good answers. Of course, a scientific explanation is more complex than simply saying, "God did it."
Quantum mechanics shows that "nothing," as a philosophical concept, does not exist. There are always quantized particle fields with random fluctuations. Quantum mechanics also shows that events can occur with no cause.
There are many well-respected physicists, such as Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, Sean M. Carroll, Victor Stenger, Michio Kaku, Alan Guth, Alex Vilenkin, Robert A.J. Matthews, and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, who have created scientific models where the Big Bang and thus the entire universe could arise from nothing but a random quantum vacuum fluctuation in a particle field -- via natural processes.
In relativity, gravity is negative energy, and matter and photons are positive energy. Because negative and positive energy seem to be equal in absolute total value, our observable universe appears balanced to the sum of zero. Our universe could thus have come into existence without violating conservation of mass and energy — with the matter of the universe condensing out of the positive energy as the universe cooled, and gravity created from the negative energy.
I know that this doesn't make sense in our Newtonian experience, but it does in the realm of quantum mechanics and relativity. As Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman wrote, "The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as she is — absurd."
For more about the Big Bang and its implications, watch the video at the 1st link - "A Universe From Nothing" by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, read an interview with him (at the 2nd link), or get his new book (at the 3rd link). And, see the 4th link for "The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps."
"The total energy of the universe is precisely zero, because gravity can have negative energy. The negative energy of gravity balances out the positive energy of matter. Only such a universe can begin from nothing. The laws of physics allow a universe to begin from nothing. You don't need a deity. Quantum fluctuations can produce a universe."
- Lawrence Krauss, physicist
"The cosmic microwave background radiation is one of the many reasons that we know that the Big Bang actually happened."
- Lawrence Krauss, physicist
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"Genesis 1 says "
Yeah, the bible says lots of stuff. It's not likely to be taken literally, nor is it obviously since so many different religions rely on it as their source.
"It says that God *created* the heavens and the earth, it doesn't say that He spawned or summoned the aforementioned things, He created them. You need materials to create something."
That's a somewhat forced distinction. It's not impossible that you're right, but nothing makes your interpretation all that compelling. God, the bible says, created the heavens and the earth, everything you see and everything you feel. Concepts like matter and energy, complex substances and elements - these are ideas that would have been meaningless in biblical days.
"What if God *created* all matter (the heavens, earth, gases, nebulae, etc.) from the energy produced by the Big Bang?"
Then god is basically a natural being, powerful yet still subordinate to and dependent on natural laws. Is that what you're asking? It's a pretty academic question, since science hasn't gotten to threshold question of god's existence.
- 8 years ago
Actually, the Big Bang didn't produce anything. The theory doesn't begin until a tiny fraction of a second after the universe began.
All the BBT really says is that since the universe is expanding, if you go back in time, it used to be smaller (and denser, and hotter). Go back far enough, and the universe is so small, dense, and hot that our current understanding of math and physics "breaks down" and starts giving nonsense answers. The BBT picks up at the very instant that the math and physics (as we currently understand them) begin to work. By that time, all of the energy (and the matter that came from it) was already in the universe.
Of course, the side argument is that if God can create the universe, He can also create all the materials.
But you're thinking about stuff, and that's always good.
- 8 years ago
Hmmm...well it's always good to think about these things. very interesting. But still where did the energy and God come from. It's an infinite question. If God created the heavens, then who created God and the energy he used, and what created that, and what created the thing that created the thing that created God. I am not saying your theory is wrong, I am just saying it is a possibility along with the million other theories. Here's another cool theory, what if God is actually energy. Energy makes up everything so why not? We just give a human form to it and call it God, but whatevs, you know?
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- Anonymous8 years ago
He created with materials that he had already! In 1John it says that God created energy and that God is energy and he had to use energy to create stuff such as light but not the big bang -- like you said the bible says he created it not summoned it to be through a big bang! I strongly encourage you to study and watch some videos online about Genesis chapter 1
- 8 years ago
You're catching on. A little underdeveloped, but you've got the gist of it. The universe itself = god, or at least is the philosophical equivalent. It's a viewpoint called Pantheism. Einstein was one of many famous Pantheists. Where your reasoning needs improvement is in the concept of "huge amounts of energy came into the universe". if you consider the laws of thermodymics, which say that energy canbot be created or destroyed, one must come to the conclusion it that energy is what the universe, in fact what existence is made of. The caveat to the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is that for conservation of energy to occur, a "closed system" must be involved. Existence is a closed system. Nothing can exist or occur outside of existence. Non-existence is a sublime fiction. There is existence that includes physical matter, and there is existence devoid of physical matter. Non-existence cannot be. The "fabric" of existence itself is energy.
- Anonymous8 years ago
Sure, God created everything including all the parts of science. He caused the Red Sea to divide just when Moses was holding a rod up to command it to do so. After scientists did a thorough investigation it was found that the Red Sea divides naturally every so many years. So, science and miracles were working together. God bless you.
- Anonymous8 years ago
So basically you just acknowleged that God didnt create the universe, the big bang did. Did you know that?
- Anonymous8 years ago
Interesting. Although most Christians don't believe that nothing can come from nothing yet believe that God was always there. If nothing can come from nothing then where did God come from and who created him? Makes no sense
- ?Lv 78 years ago
Still the greatest question. Where did God come from? I don't question his existence, i only wonder of his origin!