The Logic Behind Creation

I feel I have never made it one hundred percent clear what my actual train of thought is regarding God and my actual system of belief. In this post, I will explain, even using scientific reasoning, why I believe in creation.

I do not believe in creation simply because I became a Christian. I am not a brainwashed, manufactured believer in God. I know there’s Christians out there who have been forced into the Church from a young age, which has confined their thought process. Many Christians and believers never dare to explore and critically think about what they believe and WHY they believe it. They just take what everyone else tells them as truth. Well, that’s not me at all.

So why do I believe that God created the universe and is the author of space, time, and matter? It’s actually quite logical, but I am aware that people would rather try to refute what I say because to acknowledge it would be to acknowledge God could exist.

The two points of emphasis I rely on for my view are as follows.

1. Something cannot come from nothing.

2. Infinite qualities cannot be attached to finite things.

I know there’s many other assumptions and theories based off presupposition that attempt to explain these two points regarding the Big Bang Theory, but I am leaving them out because they are just that: theories. My two points of basis are scientific facts.

Something cannot come from nothing. If I took a typewriter, some ink, some paper, and threw it in a fire and it exploded, would a book come out? Of course not. To think the universe came to exist in a random, unexplained, coincidence is far-fetched in my opinion.  The Big Bang Theory contends that the explosion was the beginning to space, time, energy, and matter - nothing existed before that. 

So I ask four questions:

How can the absence of energy give rise to energy?

How can the absence of matter give rise to matter?

How can the absence of space give rise to space?

How can the absence of time give rise to time?

Scientifically speaking, they can’t. This is why the Big Bang has no origin and why it happened cannot be explained, despite the brilliant, semi-psychotic theories thrown out there by many great men. Richard Dawkins, author of “The God Delusion”, resorted to just telling his followers to believe it happened because there is no explanation. Yet non-believers call those who believe in God brainswashed? At least I can present an explanation for my root belief about the universe.

Now, let me tell you why God creating the Universe is actually quite logical if you can get past the part where you have to, for a few minutes, entertain the thought that God exists.  The usual question here is “well, who created God?” That question in itself is a fallacy. God always existed. The three descriptions of God in nearly every Holy text are: immaterial, eternal, and omnipresent. This means God is not bound by space, time, or matter. If he is eternal, he existed before time as we understand it. If he is immaterial he does not need space or time to exist. He exists outside of time. This is why the Bible says God is the same “yesterday, today, and will be forever.” God did not need to be created, he is the alpha and the omega. He existed before this world came to be, and will exist after it.

Now some may ask “well what If the Universe always existed, that means there is no need for God?” True, if that statement were true. But it isn’t. To assume the Universe always existed brings me to my second point of emphasis. You can’t attach infinite properties to finite things. Time and matter are finite. Time is the measure of change. There could not have been an infinite amount of changes before right now, because we would have never reached this moment in time. Both the Big Bang and creation say that time had a beginning. Everything that has a beginning has an end. This makes time finite.

Matter is finite. Take the closest thing to you and think how many times you’d have to add, subtract, multiply, and divide it against itself to reach infinite. Once again, the Big Bang and creation contend that matter had a beginning, so it has an end. So, if time and matter are finite and had to begin somewhere, they had to be created by something infinite. How about space? Space is the distance between matter, and if matter ceased to exist there would be a vacuum, there would be no space. If matter is finite, then space is finite because there’d only be a finite amount of distance between the two furthest pieces of matter in all of reality. Once again, you cannot attach finite qualities to things that are infinite.

Matter, space, and time are finite, they are not eternal. This means they had a beginning.

If something infinite created matter, time, and space, it would have to exist outside of matter, time and space.  If something exists without time, it never changes, it’s just a very long right now. As I alluded to earlier, God never changes. If something exists without matter, it is immaterial. It can’t be touched, or seen. If something exists without space, this means it is omnipresent, everywhere. Not bound by spacial restrictions.

The only thing that could have created matter, time and space is something that exists outside of matter, time and space = immaterial, eternal, and omnipresent. The very traits of God.

Something cannot come from nothing. If nothing existed before the Big Bang, it doesn’t make sense to assume that the nothingness gave birth to the elements required for the Big Bang to occur. If something existed before the Universe came to be, something that existed outside of time, space, and matter, then the nothingness has an explanation.

God is eternal, existed before creation, and is the author of the Universe.