A million or a billion or a trillion years ago or an eternity ago, there was nothing. There was nothing but blackness if nothing can even have blackness. Then, in an instant, in a moment (although instants and moments do not yet exists) there was something.
Poof!
Out of nothingness came something. I guess something is an understatement. Out of nothing came everything.
I'm not a physicists or a biologist. However, I am a well educated (Texas A&M) professional. Somewhere my education and 20 years of being a successful business professional have failed me. I'm apparently not smart enough to understand this little known physical law that something can come from nothing.
If you can help this slow Aggie understand this truth (it must be true since it is being taught at all levels of education as fact) please post an answer here. Please include any links that provide information on the scientific theory of nothing from something. I'm also interested in any scientific proofs how random chance and chaos can produce order and mind-blowing systems of complication like a living cell and DNA.
I'm open minded and just seeking the truth.
Some helpful links I've found doing my own research are below:
How something came from nothing.
Also discussed here...
And here...
Proofs of theory:
Evidence 1.
Evidence 2.
Evidence 3.
Huh. I've never heard the "something from nothing" thing except from Christians like you.
ReplyDeleteI think you're referring to the Big Bang, which just states (to my limited knowledge of it) that the universe to be much much much smaller and hotter than it is now and that it is still expanding and cool.
Thanks Lucy -
ReplyDeleteI'm still struggling with how it all started. How did that sea creaure get there before it developed lungs. Does it go all the way back to a single cell somewhere. How did it get here?
I do understand how evolution happens within a species and while I don't believe there's any proof of one species being created from another species I do understand the survival of the fittest theory so that may not be random.
However, what about the first living creature or organism. How did it get here. The only theory I've heard is something about the right atmospheric and chemical conditions came together at just the right time to somehow create a protein or some single cell organism. It sounds pretty random.
Then there is the rest of the matter around us that is not living. How did it get here? How did those atmospheric conditions and chemicals get here?
Is there any scientific theory that has hard evidence that rules out the possibility of a creator?
Or is not believing in God just a belief no different than a belief in God.
Thanks.
Lucy -
ReplyDeleteThanks at pointing me towards abiogenesis. It looks like there are many theories within that field. My question is still, how did the matter get here that somehow created this first living organism, no matter how simple this first organism was. Did something come from nothing at some point or was matter and energy always present. I think to say matter and energy are eternal is contrary to science as we know it. What was the initial change agent?
"So my question: If there is a God why did she "create" such a vast Universe with billions and billions and billions of planets, and then place life on only one of them?"
I caught the "she". lol.
I don't know if religions in general have a problem with other life forms on other planets. I don't know why they would. I think the Mormon religion teaches that if you do everything right you'll get your own planet to run.
As a Christian, my belief that there are no other planets inhabited with intelligent life is based on my belief in God's redemptive plan as laid out in the Bible. This redemptive plan not only affects us individually but according to the Bible, all of His creation. In the bible, the stars, moon and stars were created light, time-keeping, navigation and of course for His glory.
So not believing in life on other planets is not a religious thing. It's whether or not you believe - There is a creator
Who created us in His image
That we failed Him in the beginning and we are all born to fail him (sin is the Christian word)
Because He loved us he sent His Son to live the life without failing
To die as the perfect sacrifice
To atone for our failures
And provide redemption by just believing in this grace
Not by any good acts I do on my own.
Tony
mooney -
ReplyDeleteWith God all things are possible. You're right, angels were created who knows how long before mankind. We certainly can't put God in a box on what he could have created besides angels and men.
It would raise some tough questions which is why I fall on the side of there being no others. Did these other beings sin? Are they under the condemnation of our sin? Did Christ die for them as well or did He even need to? If we're going to have a new heaven and new earth, assuming heaven means the universe, does their world get transformed as well?
Not that anything God has done has to fit into my understanding. The questions just keep me on the conservative side.
Good to hear from you.
Tony