The universe screams for the need of a creator

Reversing time the Earth de-form into clouds of stellar materials produced from exploded stars which themselves de-explode and then de-coalesce toward becoming a dense uniform opaque plasma. As time accelerates backwards space itself collapses inward, as if it is being vacuumed away, moving all the material in the universe ever nearer, with all finally crashing into a beginning point. As the universe crashes inward it seems obvious that we must be closing in on some sort of birth. We seem to be moving backward toward what must inevitably be a distinct creation event, where the somethingness of matter arises from a primordial nothing.

Be this moment an act of omnificent magic, a fortunate accident, or something completely inexplicable, considering the universe is expanding it appears evident that somehow all that we know, has been, and everything that shall follow in the wake of the present, came to be all at once at one moment of time in our past. It seems evident that somehow something impossibly erupted to create a beginning, even if all the laws of nature as they are known today in Science forbid such an event. The first law states that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Furthermore, every ounce of logic be it intuitive or mathematical, demands that something cannot be created out of absolutely nothing. A zillion zeros still add up to zero. And logically, if something comes from nothing, then it wasn’t really nothing to begin with then was it? And yet the universe is here, and all is expanding away from one single place and one single time, before which there is no possibility of time as we perceive time.

Every bone in a reasonable person’s body screams that this sudden creation event could not have happened by itself. A universe cannot just pop into existence. The existence of a universe and our own existence require a cause. And so we ask, does this impossibility of ‘something coming from nothing’ mean that the universe absolutely had to have been created? Did a powerful being of some kind (usually assumed to be named God) create the first moment of our universe? It is almost a relief to consider this possibility in the face of such a paradoxical dilemma, except we actually know that this solution only suspends and relocates the mystery. All the same questions we ask about how the universe came to be, must then be diverted to this being called God. The inference of some seems to be that God is so powerful that God is beyond needing an explanation, yet realistically the same old questions apply. How long has this being existed? How did God begin from nothing? If it has existed forever, then how can it just exist? Why does God exist rather than nothing at all?

We usually know better than to try to explain, the existence of the human world as a product of a human act, at least not logically. We don’t imagine the Universe created the Universe. We don’t even pretend that God created God. By definition the first thing cannot come from itself or anything else. So how then did the very first thing begin if it really didn’t exist before it suddenly existed? In truth there isn’t a proper answer to these questions. The answer to why we exist isn’t answered by explaining the impossible. Rather the great mystery of why we are here is answered by recognizing our own inevitability.

A lot of people who believe in God believe God has existed forever, which leads to the question, could something just exist eternally, without beginning or end? But then if so, if that door is actually open, if it is possible for something complex and powerful like a god to have existed forever, could such reasons for being able to innately exist forever also apply to a seemingly more simple universe? Is it possible that the seed of the big bang existed forever before undergoing the transformation we know as the big bang? Is it possible that everything, even we ourselves, exist forever in each moment apart from our sense of time, making time ultimately an illusion. This would mean that the past, present and even the future, all exist simultaneously.

Presently it doesn’t seem possible to us that things might simply exist. Why? Because a universe is complicated, God is complicated, while nothingness in comparison is simple. Nothingness wouldn’t need an explanation. Complication requires a reason for being so. In fact there is only one principle idea that holds us back from believing that there are things, or beings, or realms of time and place, which exist forever without cause, without beginning or end. That reason is our expectation that a pure and total nothingness is more primary, more basic, and simpler, than every other possibility.

Nevertheless we definitely have something and not nothing and the reason for this remiams the ultimate question to me Tweet