In the beginning there was light?
"People say that even at the start of the bible doesn't make sense but I was thinking....
God created light before he created a light source ( a star )
However say God created the universe by creating the Big Bang.
Say the Big Bang was continuous, after our universe has expanded as much as it will, it then contracts. The black holes merge together until there is only one left. All the matter gets compressed and under so much presser it changes form into energy, until only light energy and gravitational energy exist. Light cannot escape a black hole, so eventually it all goes towards the very centre of this black hole. At that moment when everything in the universe is pulled towards that one point, gravitational energy no longer exists as that one point cannot act on anything else...
So at that one point, just before the Big Bang... there was only light and nothing else.
There are probably some flaws in my logic, do you think it could make sense?
( i'm atheist by the way and Bible has many other flaws but I was just curious if the order of ""gods"" create made sense )"
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"For thousands of years, people have said that their gods were behind what they didn't understand -- life, lightning, stars, earthquakes, the origin of life, the world or the universe, etc. Positing a god to supposedly answer a question solves nothing. It just adds an unwarranted level of complexity and stops you from asking more questions. It used to be that science couldn't answer the question about the origin of the universe or of the Big Bang, but that didn't mean we should make up an answer (such as a god) and say that it was the cause. Within the last few decades scientists have discovered some good answers. Of course, a scientific explanation is more complex than simply saying, ""God did it."" Quantum mechanics shows that ""nothing,"" as a philosophical concept, does not exist. There are always quantized particle fields with random fluctuations. Quantum mechanics also shows that events can occur with no cause. There are many well-respected physicists, such as Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, Sean M. Carroll, Victor Stenger, Michio Kaku, Alan Guth, Alex Vilenkin, Robert A.J. Matthews, and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek, who have created scientific models where the Big Bang and thus the entire universe could arise from nothing but a random quantum vacuum fluctuation in a particle field -- via natural processes. In relativity, gravity is negative energy, and matter and photons are positive energy. Because negative and positive energy seem to be equal in absolute total value, our observable universe appears balanced to the sum of zero. Our universe could thus have come into existence without violating conservation of mass and energy — with the matter of the universe condensing out of the positive energy as the universe cooled, and gravity created from the negative energy. I know that this doesn't make sense in our Newtonian experience, but it does in the realm of quantum mechanics and relativity. As Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman wrote, ""The theory of quantum electrodynamics describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And it agrees fully with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as she is — absurd."" For more about the Big Bang and its implications, watch the video at the 1st link - ""A Universe From Nothing"" by theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss, read an interview with him (at the 2nd link), or get his new book (at the 3rd link). And, see the 4th link for ""The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps."""
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