Universe Came Out of Nothing?

Hi Professor, it is a pleasure to participate in the discussions you bring forth. The topic you brought up here for discussion here is truly interesting. We already know the universe we are living in had evolved out of a primordial atom. The universe has been expanding ever since. Scientists also assume that the universe at sometime in future would collapse upon itself; and it would once again reduce itself to primordial atom. If a star collapses upon itself it turns into a black hole. Black hole is a high gravitational field. Anything, which enters into black hole, turns nothing. We do not know yet, if a whole universe would collapse upon itself, what it will create. Perhaps it would be similar to black hole, but gravitational field much stronger than in the black hole. Scientists also believe that universe would start expanding again; it means the primordial atom, which once upon a time was a universe would again emerge out of that black hole. Since black hole contains nothing; therefore maybe Stephen Hawking is right.

Hogwash! Something comes out from nothing? Ask that guy from where he came from.

I believe that God created the Universe out of nothing. The Earth was without form and void.

hi Professor well I admire Stephen Hawing but here I disagree as we know the almighty created heaven and earth, and we humans too. Simple and complex both, but this I do believe, and my faith tells me I am a child of God,. the master creator who took from something to make something, and we are here in this lovely world of ours today.

Professor, I am thinking that the world did come from nothing. But it is only by the power of the "master mind" Creator who did it! No scientist can create something from nothing, but I believe God did. It all functions too perfectly for it to have just happened because two little cells bumped in to each other!

I believe that the world that we know now came from a variety of things. I don't like the theory of everything coming completely from nothing because I don't think that there is a scientific theory that would be able to prove that one. However, I also don't particularly care for the theory of creation because it doesn't sufficiently explain the fact that we are all able to see evolution throughout our lives. I think that there was something greater than us that made the world come into existence but I'm not really sure what it is.

had to come form something even if it was from all things floating in the atmusphere an bonded together to make the stars and the world hmmmmmmm

I don't think that something can be made out of nothing. that doesn't seem to make any sense scientifically. every new thing comes from the parts of something else. because of this, I beleive that the universe doesn't have a beginning. it always existed. if not in the same form as now, then in a different form, but the matter that makes up the universe didn't suddenly appear. if the universe didn't exist at any point, then it must have come from the matter of something else. while I am religious, I don't believe that any deity was ever sat around bored forever, and then one day decided to make the universe out of the nothingness that existed before. because if you go with that, you have to ask yourself where that deity came from. and if the answer to that is that they always existed, then why can't the same argument be applied to the universe.

Many people spend decades of their life going round in circles trying to debate on scientific findings on the existence of earth and other planets. They analyze the problem, research it, turn it over and over in their minds, go back and forth a thousand times, and at the end of the whole process, they're still not sure. Scientists in the like of Stephen Hawking tends to think that it is not 'intelligent' to believe in God or that religion somehow goes against science. Don't we get so wrapped up in logic that we get tied up in it as well. They can forget about the solution they are looking for as it is right in front of their eyes and doesn't require any arguments at all. God created humans and filled them up with intelligence and who are we to question the power of God and all his inventions.

In Zen the Great Void is spoken about - that state of "no-thing-ness" that is pur euniversal potential. It is said an enlightened Zen master can develop awareness of the Great Void - a direct experience that is entierely different to the concepts of Prof. Stephen Hawkins who without doubt has a great theoretical mind that a Zen master has little interest in. Myself... I conceptualize a lot, but have had one or two insightful experiences that I wouldn't trade for any concept. Zen masters tell us that no-thing-ness exists but warns us not to believe in this, but strive to experience the existence of it. I've had small glimpses, but I aspire to have much bigger ones! Back to the meditation cushions! _Derek

We could argue that the universe did not come out of nothing because a god must have created it, but the problem is, where did god come from? Thinking about it really makes my head spin. If we would always think about who created this and that, the answer will be like infinite creators, wouldn't it? It's so mind-baffling. We would never stop at just one ultimate creator because we would always ask who created that creator. Thomas Aquinas said that if there would always be someone who created another being, we wouldn't be able to have a first creator (because we would be asking who created whom to infinity). And then he said that if there's no first creator then there wouldn't be other creators (because no one started the creation in the first place). But if that's the case, then nothing would exist right now (but we know the universe exists, that we exist. Aquinas's solution to this was that it was necessary for someone to have always existed for everyone and everything to be created. And he claims this being who has always existed as god. It sounds pretty smart, but I still don't know what to think. The only thing I'm sure about is that I don't know anything about how life and the whole universe started.

dear professor, this is a subject that i dont really know anything of. this has something to do with geochemistry i guess? but i will try to answer to the best i can. your friend mentioned of primordial elements - chemical elements found on the earth that have existed in their current form since before the earth was formed. they change their form due to evolution, so i guess the universe came from something. have a nice day. ann

Hi Prof., couldn't say anything but to read and learn from your post.. thank you so much!!

Science was a big step in history of humanity. The Universe appear spontan.One of poet said about that: "All was one and One is all."

To say it 'spontaneously' arose begs an interesting philosophical question. Science depends on the notion of cause and effect; for every event there is a cause. If science then predicts an event without cause, it infers invalidity in science all the best urban