What are non-religious explanations about creation?

Answer 1

Beliefs about creation can be derived from religious belief, philosophical discussion or the evidence of science. The last of these two sources provide what could be called non-religious explanations.

Plato and Aristotle both put forward first cause arguments that said that eveything has a prior cause, until you arrive back at the very first cause, which is the origin of the universe. Since the first cause had to be in some way different to its successors, this line of argument usually came back to some form of religious origin. Even pantheism, a belief system that sees God as equivalent to nature, is still a religious explanation.

The only truly non-religious explanations for creation come from science. At one stage, the universe was thought to be static - a "steady state" - and eternal. It is now recognised that our universe had a beginning, and that all substance originated from a single point. This results in the theory known as the "Big Bang". Some scientists believe that there must have been many "Big Bangs", since the circumstances for one such event could be expected to occur repeatedly across infinite space and time, and that therefore there are many universes in what they term a multiverse. However, the infinite expanse of space means that we will never become aware of other universes.

Answer 2

Non-religious explanations about creation typically involve scientific theories such as the Big Bang theory, which suggests that the universe originated from a singular point and has been expanding ever since. Evolutionary theory explains the diversity of life on Earth through natural selection and adaptation over billions of years. These explanations are based on empirical evidence, observation, and experimentation rather than supernatural beliefs.