I see frequent items on science versus creation but they never hit the most fundamental issue. Creationism of all variants start with the assumption that that there was a time when existence did not exist and that there is something outside of and apart from nature, which is the realm of science and physics. Creationism posits a realm not accessible to man’s senses, a realm that is not of the natural but which is supernatural. This starting point is not a scientific view. Science deals with the evidence perceived of the natural world and the universe beyond. Science studies and investigate the reality we experience and there is certainly no scientific evidence that the universe was created by something which preceded it. If one believes in creation theory they do so because of faith not because scientific evidence compels such conclusion.
Science tells us the matter and energy can not be destroyed or created, only transformed. Creationism is unscientific starting at it’s very roots because the creationist believe there was a time when material reality did not exist, a time when all that existed was an immaterial spiritual but all powerful being best known as God and that God brought the material world, the world of energy and matter that we know, into being. While there are different creation stories with different religions the Jews, Christians and Muslims all look to the book of Genesis where we are told God said let there be and there was. In other words, there was nothing then POOF, there it was. Something from nothing. This is not science but is best describe as magic.
Science, and common sense really, tells us that something can not come from nothing, it can’t happen. Science tells us that matter and energy are eternal, without beginning or end. Matter and energy can not be destroyed or created, only transformed. Existence simply is and to ask why there is something rather than nothing makes no sense.
Please don’t make the mistake of confusing the Big Bang theory with the Big Poof theory. The Big Bang theory does not purport to explain the origin of existence but only of it’s current configuration. Big Bang does not claim that something came from nothing. It claims that the stuff of the universe was once incredibly dense and compact then exploded and has been moving outward ever since.
Science tells us the matter and energy can not be destroyed or created, only transformed. Creationism is unscientific starting at it’s very roots because the creationist believe there was a time when material reality did not exist, a time when all that existed was an immaterial spiritual but all powerful being best known as God and that God brought the material world, the world of energy and matter that we know, into being. While there are different creation stories with different religions the Jews, Christians and Muslims all look to the book of Genesis where we are told God said let there be and there was. In other words, there was nothing then POOF, there it was. Something from nothing. This is not science but is best describe as magic.
Science, and common sense really, tells us that something can not come from nothing, it can’t happen. Science tells us that matter and energy are eternal, without beginning or end. Matter and energy can not be destroyed or created, only transformed. Existence simply is and to ask why there is something rather than nothing makes no sense.
Please don’t make the mistake of confusing the Big Bang theory with the Big Poof theory. The Big Bang theory does not purport to explain the origin of existence but only of it’s current configuration. Big Bang does not claim that something came from nothing. It claims that the stuff of the universe was once incredibly dense and compact then exploded and has been moving outward ever since.
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