What is the origin of the raw material of which the universe is made?
It has been noted that “Matter is simply one form of energy,” Scientific American stated. This relationship between matter and energy was expressed by Einstein’s famous formula E=mc2 (energy equals mass times the speed of light squared). This equation reveals that a little mass, or matter, harbors unbelievable energy. “It explains,” noted university professor Timothy Ferris, “why a bomb the size of an orange can lay waste to a city.” Looking at the other side of the coin—according to Einstein’s theory, energy can also be turned into matter. The forming of the material universe may thus have involved what one cosmologist called “the most awesome transformation of matter and energy that we have been privileged to glimpse.” From where, though, did the matter and the energy needed for such a “transformation” originate? Interestingly, the Bible says of God: “Due to the abundance of dynamic energy, he also being vigorous in power, not one of them [the heavenly bodies] is missing.” (Isaiah 40
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- If there is not life on other planets, why did God create the universe? Was it necessary?
- What is the origin of the raw material of which the universe is made?
