Creation

In the first biblical creation account (Genesis 1:1-2:4a), the first thing that God made was light, then the second thing was the firmament that separated the waters above from the waters below. The firmament was conceived as a dome into which the sun, moon and stars would be placed. We now know that the firmament does not really exist, so the second thing that God made, after separating the pre-existing dry land from the waters, would then have to be grass and then the herbs and fruit trees (1:11)

The second biblical creation account (Genesis 2:4a and following) is more primitive, but Adam was the first creation, made from the dirt. God made him into a living soul. The second creation seems to be the garden he planted.

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There may be a conflict on how Christianity views the world with Science. Since your question says "Religion" and not specifically Christianity, then, the Dalai Lama (Buddhism) wrote in his book, "The Universe in a Single Atom" (Morgan Road Books): "My confidence in venturing into science lies in my basic belief that as in science so in Buddhism, understanding the nature of reality is pursued by means of critical investigation: if scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims."

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Insofar as the evolution of the universe can be said to have stages, they might be listed as follows:

• Planck epoch: Up to 10-43 second after the Big Bang
• Grand unification epoch: Between 10-43 second and 10-36 second after the Big Bang
• Electroweak epoch: Between 10-36 second (or the end of inflation) and 10-12 second after the Big Bang
• Inflationary epoch: Unknown duration, ending 10-32 second after the Big Bang
• Baryogenesis: Unknown duration
• Quark epoch: Between 10-12 second and 10-6 second after the Big Bang
• Hadron epoch: Between 10-6 second and 1 second after the Big Bang
• Lepton epoch: Between 1 second and 10 seconds after the Big Bang
• Photon epoch: Between 10 seconds and 380,000 years after the Big Bang
• Nucleosynthesis: Between 3 minutes and 20 minutes after the Big Bang
• Matter domination: From 70,000 years after the Big Bang
• Recombination: ca. 377,000 years after the Big Bang
• Dark Ages: Between 150 million to 800 million years after the Big Bang
• Reionization: 150 million to 1 billion years after the Big Bang
• Formation of stars, galaxies, groups, clusters and superclusters: From 500.000 years after the Big Bang
• Formation of the Solar System: About 4.6 billion years ago

And towards the future:

• Fate of the Solar system: 1 to 5 billion years
• Big freeze: 100 trillion years and beyond
• Big Rip: 20+ billion years from now
• Vacuum metastability event
• Heat death: 10 150+ years from now

Taken from Wikipedia, see link below.

It seems confusing that the Big Bang could have happened even though there was no matter or energy in the universe. But really, scientists speculate that there could have been a time before matter, energy, and time itself even existed. The "Big Bang" is a term that describes the event that created the universe. It goes like this:

There was no time, no energy, and no matter. basicly, NOTHING existed. Then, a tiny volume of space, smaller then the head of a pin, suddenly expanded and grew to an enormous size. As the volume of space expanded, it created all the energy and matter in the universe. It created nebulas and galaxies of stars and planets. (and many other things, of coarse.) This is when time began to flow.

There is plenty of evidence to support that this theory is true. The big bang would have been such a huge event that the waves of energy it created are still traveling in space today! People have actually detected these waves with a device called a spectroscope. Not only this, but scientist think that the universe is still expanding. basicly, the Big Bang is still happening today. We know this because astronomers have noticed that the galaxies of our universe are all moving away from eachother. They are all moving away from the centre of the universe, where the big bang started. The universe is still getting bigger to this day.

Matter, no doubt in the form of mass-energy, arrived only after the moment known as t = 0. Therefore, the Universe had already started and the big bang had already occurred. Matter was not necessary for the big bang to occur. The big bang was the initiation of space-time as a rapid expansion out of approximately nothing which as Bill Bryson reports 'had no dimensions at all'. This little thing that expanded into spacetime was called a singularity.

One idea is that the big bang may be a result of a collision between the membranes of M theory in some exotic dimension like the 11th dimension.

The big bang never happend, God created the universe, and everyone and everything in it! Do you really believe that out of nothing an explosion happened?

The only logical is:

In order for something to be created, something has to create the creator. Therefore something cannot be created from nothing. The universe can either grow exponentially or die exponentially. That is the only thing that makes sense, it's not debatable. The world needs to stop thinking of god in third person. Everyone creates there own reality, we are god.

-Different person's view:-

Firstly, there was something, a small subatomic particle which exploded. The explosion caused everything to go apart from each other at a speed greater than the speed of light, and in the intense heat, helium and hydrogen was produced, and in the pressure, galaxies were formed, then stars, planets, and etc

-Another person's view:-

The Big Bang Theory is largely exemplified by Einstein's mass-energy equivalence formula E=mc2, which, if valid, implies that matter comes from (came from) energy, and conversely, that matter can be converted back to energy. If matter has not always existed, then E=mc2 is a plausable explanation for the origin of matter, that is, it came from energy. If matter has always existed, then the question of where it came from does not arise. Alternate It is creationists who believe that out of nothing came everything, not astronomers, theoretical physicists and other scientists. The BBT is a theory, and as such it can and probably will be replaced at some time with another theory that better explains the origins of the universe. At present, it is serving (as theories should for as long as they last) to inspire thinking, experimentation and objective observation leading to deeper understanding of how the universe came to be. Currently, the theory holds that at the moment of the start of the expansion (BB) there was an area that contained energy-- a sum of energy that is unimaginably great. [Energy is NOT nothing] There was no matter in the 'particle' sense, because no particles could exist at such high energies. This energy was so high that three of the four basic forces, electromagnetism, the strong atomic force and the weak atomic force, were one single force. Space/time as we know it didn't exist, but space/time itself expanded along with the expansion of energy. The expansion caused cooling (a cooling that we think we are still able to detect in the form of the universal background radiation-- radiation that was discovered accidentally at the Bell labs.) As the original energy field cooled and expanded, particles began to condense out, along with the basic forces as we know them.

The BB did not originate from a dimensionless point; it is this 'point' problem that is insurmountable from the point of view of Einstein's Relativity.

String theory, Membrane theory and Quantum theory are pointing to some concepts that might allow us to unite quantum and relativity concepts, and to extend our theoretical knowledge back to conditions prior to the locus of energy that caused/was the big bang.

Many ancient religions held that creation came about because of, or involved, conflict between the forces of good and chaos. The forces of chaos were sometimes seen as destructive gods, but in other cases as chaos monsters that had to be defeated by the gods, who were generally benevolent.

An example of a chaos god is the Babylonian goddess, Tiamat, who is clearly conceived as a monstrous threat to both cosmic and socio-political order, and the survival of the world as well as the survival of the state depend on the creator god Marduk defeating her and keeping her from returning.

In a Hindu creation story, from the Sanskrit hymns in the Rig Veda, the creator god Indra must slay the chaos demon Vrtra in order to release its primordial chaos waters as a life source, thereby creating and establishing a livable cosmos, the order of which is integrally related to Vedic understanding of social order.

The Bible contains ancient references to the forces of chaos, associated with the world's creation. Timothy K. Beal (Religion and its Monsters) has identified a quite a few fragments of more ancient chaos stories in the biblical Book of Job. For example, in Job 38:8, God asks, "Who shut Yam behind doors when it burst forth from the womb ..." (KJV translates as: "shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?" The italics on 'as if' mean that this is not a literal translation. ). Yam (or Yamm) was the Canaanite sea god, a destructive chaos force, and the reference in Job can be identified in early Canaanite creation stories. Behemoth and Leviathan, mentioned in the Psalms and in Job, are also generally considered to have been chaos monsters.

The vast majority of scientists say that creation, as opposed to current biological, physical, chemical and astronomical models, is pseudoscience with a religious and political agenda.

When we say "majority", we don't just mean 101 to 100. We're talking 999 out of every 1000. Some creation supporters have compiled lists of a few hundred "scientists" which support it. Most of these "scientists" are unqualified; most of the remainder have very little actual qualification. Of the few others, their opinion is based on religious (and not purely scientific) grounds.

There are hundreds of thousands of scientists who would attest that their work and research indicates current science to be correct, and creationist claims to the contrary are unfounded, based in misapplication, misunderstanding, and speculation about facts.

Quite simply, scientists (as a group) say that creationism is wrong/false/incorrect/fake.

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You will find that anti-creation scientists are over-represented in the field of Biology despite overwhelming modern evidence and research otherwise by other scientists in other fields such as ENTROPY. [Not old parroted "facts" and opinions passed off as facts but since discredited].

Anyway, most scientists couldn't care less - it's just the squeaking wheel that gets the most grease.

The basic Platonic/Aristotelian cosmological argument is this:

1. Every finite and contingent being has a cause.
2. A causal loop cannot exist.
3. A causal chain cannot be of infinite length.
4. Therefore, a First Cause (or something that is not an effect) must exist. God is then often inserted as this "First Cause".

The newer more often quoted Kalam cosmological argument is this:

1. (1)Everything that has a beginning of its existence has a cause of its existence.
2. (2)The universe has a beginning of its existence.

   Therefore:

1. (3) The universe has a cause of its existence.
2. (4) If the universe has a cause of its existence then that cause is God.

   Therefore:

1. (5) God exists.

The Kalam cosmological argument is the one most often used in contemporary debate by apologists such as Dr. William Lane Craig.

What would later become called Saturday evening.

Day by day, God created the universe and its contents (Genesis ch.1).God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30).Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.

• On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole."
  
• On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.
  
• On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.
  
• On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.
  
• On day 5: God created birds and fish.
  
• On day 6: God created animals and people.
  
• On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.
  

See also:

Is there evidence for Creation?

Can you show that God exists?

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