Creation

I value God's creation by recognizing its inherent beauty and complexity, understanding the interconnectedness of all living things, and striving to be a good steward of the Earth by caring for the environment and respecting all forms of life.

In the beginning of the bible God says "Let there be light", but it doesnt say that he created dark. There was nothing at first, so we may assume that it was dark. So the answer, i think is Day.

Answer 2Scientifically speaking, Day and Night are caused by the rotation of the Earth where every 24 hours the Earth will revolve 360 degrees. The Earth is separated into 24 parts known as hours, and these parts are used as to determine what part of the day it is. So we see that the place that the Sun is hitting the Earth is the Day and the other side is the night.

Now religiously speaking, God says "Let there be light" in the world of darkness. Thus we can base our answer off of 2 assumptions.

1. The world was never bright until God made it so

2. God made darkness first.

Science speaks for itself, but if we are talking about religion as this topic is fielded under, then my two points as stated above will provide the possible choices

Scientists who contend that the biblical story of creation is false are following the philosophy of naturalism which specifically excludes creation as something which can be considered. This is rather interesting in the light of modern science which developed in an era where people believed in God and so also believed in as a consequence an orderly universe which could be understood and studied.

In more recent times some scientists have sought to use the unscientific philosophy of naturalism which explicitly excludes the creator, when science cannot disprove God by any endeavor deemed to be scientific.

Other scientists, although certainly in a minority, do not find any conflict whatsoever between the facts of science and creation. These scientists do not regard the creation story as made up. This demonstrates it is a philosophical position which causes people to regard the creatin story as made up. It is also a philosophical statement, not a scientific one to regard certain things as facts which are not at ll proven but which are open to question and debate such as the age of the earth.

It is explicitly the alleged age of the earth, which in recent times has had much contrary evidence brought against it, which is open to question by such data but which is used to call into the question the view that the earth was created by God around 6000 years ago.

Using the newly invented telescope, Galileo observed the night sky, making a number of observations that revealed evidence that there were celestial objects that did not orbit Earth. In 1610, he watched several of Jupiter's moons as they moved in and out of sight around their parent planet. He also observed Venus, noting how it went through phases very much like our own moon - something that was impossible if it did not orbit the sun. He later observed Saturns rings, and

though he mistook them for a number of planets orbiting each other, it was one more example of something that was not orbiting the Earth.

No, William Paley did not invent the eye analogy. He popularized it in his book "Natural Theology" in 1802, where he used the analogy of the watch and the watchmaker to argue for the existence of God based on the design complexity of the natural world.

The Bible answers:

(Genesis 1:9-13)" . . .And God went on to say: "Let the waters under the heavens be brought together into one place and let the dry land appear." And it came to be so. 10 And God began calling the dry land Earth, but the bringing together of the waters he called Seas. Further, God saw that [it was] good. 11 And God went on to say: "Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth, vegetation bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of which is in it, upon the earth." And it came to be so. 12 And the earth began to put forth grass, vegetation bearing seed according to its kind and trees yielding fruit, the seed of which is in it according to its kind. Then God saw that [it was] good. 13 And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, a third day."

The Bible does not say how long the third day lasted (or any other creative day for that matter) but apparently some time went by as earth emerged up from the watery expanse (as it still does today,) dry ground emerged (over time) and it was made to be capable of supporting seeds and plant life (according to its kind, as it still is.)

God rested on the seventh day of creation, after completing the work of creating the heavens, earth, plants, animals, and humans in six days according to the Bible. This day of rest is known as the Sabbath, which is observed as a day of rest and worship in many religious traditions.

Different cultures and religions have various creation stories. In Christianity, the world was created by God in six days as described in the book of Genesis. In Hinduism, the world was created by Brahma, the creator god. In scientific terms, the world was formed through the Big Bang theory, where the universe expanded from a singularity approximately 13.8 billion years ago.

As one who believes in creation and not the big bang theory, I can tell you that the earth was a beautiful place. The garden of Eden was filled with all the plants and animals that could be imagined. It was a beautiful place where God walked daily. It was perfect. It was perfect until Satan stepped in and caused Adam and Eve to sin. Once that happened, man started thinking that he was very intelligent which led to man eventually thinking he was so smart that he could figure out everything. Man then thought up the theory about the big bang. Silly man.

Since the big bang didn't happen, it is impossible to describe non-existent conditions. Interestingly, it is not just Christian believers who are now criticizing the big bang. Scientists who are not Christian are also seeing the increasing evidence from science which contradicts it. It is difficult to conceive of a greater waste of money, when millions of people are starving and oppressed, for people to try to test a theory which cannot in any way be proven and which has so much contrary evidence.

Though no authority on this subject I would guess that color would suggest that our sun is a relatively young star. Yellow being a much younger star than say the blue or red stars which are much hotter, so suggesting that they are much older. There are some who would suggest that our sun has used up all of its energy and is cooling down making it much older that I first suggested.

We deserve to know the answer. We have worked hard to learn about the universe we inhabit. We owe it to ourselves, and to our progeny, to understand just how it was everything came to be. And, in our quest for knowledge, we may learn other things about ourselves we can use to improve our lives.

Knowledge simply for the sake of knowledge is a gift. I love knowing our universe is 13.8 billion years old, and that it contains roughly 100 billion galaxies beyond our own. These are things our ancestors could not possibly have dreamed. They viewed the stars as fixed on the dome of heaven, and were puzzled by the wanderers (planets). Comets and supernova upset their view of things. Eclipses were not quite so mysterious--everyone understood fairly well what caused the sun to intermittently darken during the day.

We now know much better just how vast and old our universe is, and that understanding is accompanied by a sense of achievement. As time goes on, we will learn so much more. And this knowledge is our birth right, as human beings, inquisitive about the world around us. We deserve to know.

In Genesis, it proclaims that on the third day God had created dry ground which allowed plants to grow. The further cooling of the surface set in motion a process of natural contraction, uplifting and motion of the crust (the process continues today, called "plate tectonics"). The earth changed from a smooth one-level molten "cue ball" to a planet with an irregular surface with ocean basins and continental landmasses. With dry ground available, the first plants were made to grow in great abundance. (Genesis 1:9-13)

The whole idea of God that he is eternal, he has no beginning and no end. He thus was already there in the beginning of time and was always there, although the more one thinks about this, the more difficult it is to grasp.

The distance to stars is measured in light years, which is the distance light travels in one year. The stars we see in the night sky are typically several light years away, with the closest star to Earth, Proxima Centauri, about 4.24 light years away.

Some people believe that humans are a way for the universe to experience and understand itself, given our ability to observe, analyze, and reflect on the world around us. This perspective suggests that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the universe and that humans are a manifestation of this self-awareness.

People believe in god not because they can not comprehend scientific theories. They believe in god because our existence is super natural. Who ever or whatever created our existence, did not come from what is considered our dimension. But of another realm. An event can not occur without time. Time can not exist without matter. Before the big bang, there was nothing. There for there was no time. There for there was no event. nor could an event ever happen. Think of it this way, I robot can not build itself. It has to be built by something of another existence. The universe can not create itself, it has to be created by something of another existence in another realm. Thus you have god.

Actually god came a LONG way after the big bang, he was only invented about 2,000 years ago by a certain section of world population...by the way you cant all be right about your 'gods' -unless you think that Jesus and god sit along side ...vishnu and some totem poles or whatever other religions have god and believe in them.

We are at the moment (believe it or not) living in an explosion, the beginning of which was the BIg Bang, and the ending of which nobody knows. what we do know is that we are traveling through this explosion at the speed of light, when we are not moving believe it or not. Before time began everything that we know of and matter period was concentrated into a densely packed size of...stuff.

The closest analogy I can give you to explain and visualise the point is this. Have you ever seen a testing car crash on TV in slow motion shot with a super fast camera? well look what happens to all the glass from the headlights, the windscreen/shield, side windows. They were all part of a single entity (the car) but once enough energy acted on the car (the sudden stop into the wall!)

and the resulting reaction (explosion of all the shards of glass ect) were sent out on a predetermined trajectory through space time...if you can imagine the car as everything that the contents of the building blocks of the universe (space time) needed to form

well Im probably loosing you now....so that's the problem you see, the ones who don't have the intellect to comprehend these highly sophisticated theories of life and science/physics cant follow, and its just 'easier' for them to believe in 'god' - (which is either a long haired bearded man (who aparently grew up in the desert...hmmm how many of them are there, white skinned I might add??) or an elephant with 8 arms coming out of him (Vishnu (Hindu god I believe?) or any other religion. So for the masses who just cant comprehend or even want to accept the cold harsh reality of our existence...c'est la vie...

And to answer the question with a direct answer. Nothing existed before the big bang...and nothing exists outside existence...

I think that, maybe, there are some things that the mind (intellect) can't understand. Things that can be experienced just by means of conscience. The Big Bang is as far back as we can go. Science says nothing about what (if anything) happened before that, because it is unable to "see" beyond that point in time. All we can do is guess.

Many religious persons would simply say that some god caused the big bang to occur; however, this is outside the realm of science and thus cannot be shown correct or incorrect. It relies solely on faith (which given the circumstances is fair enough - we physically can't know either way).

Some scientists hypothesise models in which the universe undergoes a Big Bang, and then a Big Crunch, and then starts again; in this case the universe simply repeats itself, and this action is caused by gravity and the other fundamental forces.

Others present the idea that the Big Bang was everything that existed and has done so forever, and then became unstable - by whatever mechanism - allowing the Big Bang occurred.

According to the Bible, God spoke and it came to be. Obviously God had 'thought' about it and decided how it was all to be put together and about the laws which were to govern it etc, but since He is God, His 'thoughts' or decisions are able to come to pass precisely as He wants them to be. Many who believe this and see the order, complexity and beauty in the universe acknowledge God's handiwork. Others, who do not wish to do this prefer other explanations. However, the very laws of the universe, created by God, and later discovered by man, refute such explanations, such as the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics and point instead back to the creator.

Further to this, especially in more recent times due to advances in technology and in space exploration, many discoveries are being made which reinforce the idea of a 'young' solar system and universe, although many will dogmatically state it is not so.

Currently, creationism is considered pseudoscience by the vast majority of the scientific community. It is supported by differing accounts from various religions, but to date, there is no observable, testable, or falsifiable evidence.

On creationist websites, and even answers here, creationists tend to "support" creationism by refuting evolution (although most of the arguments you will find have nothing to do with evolutionary theory at all). To creationists, this technique seems to indicate the veracity of the creationist view, but this is a logical fallacy known as a false dichotomy. If evolution is untrue, that does nothing to refute the various other explanations for the variety of life.

14 According to the Bible, "And on the fourth day he created the sun, the moon and stars, and he set them in the vault of heaven to give light on earth to have charge over day and night and to separate light from darkness."

Then God said, "Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them mark off the seasons, days, and years. 15 Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth." And that is what happened. 16 God made two great lights-the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set these lights in the sky to light the earth, 18 to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

19 And evening passed and morning came, marking the fourth day.

So the sun, moon, and stars.

In the Bible, Jesus states in Matthew 24:36, "But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father." This verse emphasizes that the exact timing of the end of the world is known only to God the Father.