Does the universe create?

[SimonArizona]

Is the universe the infinite creator that always was, always is and always will be?

is there evidence that the universe creates? If it does not create well then what else -excluding the notion of God- does?

 

[edwest2]

No. The universe has no ability to create. Assuming a Big Bang did occur, there would be no reason to order. Explosions, even in a vacuum, release energy but that’s it. To assume that this energy coalesced into matter is hard to prove. Right now, only a small part of the universe consists of matter, the rest is called dark matter and dark energy. Then there’s the universal background radiation which is claimed to be a remnant of the Big Bang.

Peace,
Ed

 

[geekborj]

Is the universe the infinite creator that always was, always is and always will be?

This question begs the idea of Pantheism. This is not a Catholic belief.

God is the Creator of everything, seen or unseen, physical or not. He could have created, however, things that can produce other things He wills to create. Humans help create humans through reproduction (God creates the soul). From the Genesis, we see that God commanded the earth to produce, the water to produce, and other first creations to produce… including Man.

In the end, it is God who creates; the created only (re)produces.

is there evidence that the universe creates? If it does not create well then what else -excluding the notion of God- does?

The universe does not create, rather it produces things from other things. Only God creates from nothing. Even quantum vacuum energy fluctuations are produced from vacuum – pure space-time, still from “something.”

 

[Dameedna]

is there evidence that the universe creates? If it does not create well then what else -excluding the notion of God- does?

A advanced civilization far beyond our capacity to understand? We could be some-one elses Petri dish for all we know.

God is a label people give to something unknown and is the “easy” answer to an age-old problem.

We do not actually know wether or not the universe creates(although there are some physicists who are working on such theories).

All that we do actually know, is that the universe exists(as much as we can actually know anything). That is it.

The rest, is hypothetical.

 

[Areopagite]

What do you mean by “create”?

The common theological definition of “create” is bringing something into being from nothing (ex nihilo). If that’s the definition you’re using, then the answer is no. The universe does not create. Only God creates.

We know by divine revelation that the universe had a beginning and it will have an end. Various Catholic theologians have said that God could have chosen to make a universe without a beginning and an end (a continuous/eternal one), but he chose not to, and we know this by means of Scripture.

Does this answer your question?

 

[geekborj]

A advanced civilization far beyond our capacity to understand? We could be some-one elses Petri dish for all we know.

God is a label people give to something unknown and is the “easy” answer to an age-old problem.

We do not actually know wether or not the universe creates(although there are some physicists who are working on such theories).

All that we do actually know, is that the universe exists(as much as we can actually know anything). That is it.

The rest, is hypothetical.

Are you saying here that the observation that this universe produces something (energy imbalance, decrease in local entropy) by reorganizing itself, is just a hypothesis?

What is the “age-old problem”? Without God imposing order in the Universe, there is nothing to hypothesize about. Look for the simplest answer to get the most likely answer.

The Universe does not create, current theory holds that: The Universe only produces something by changing something that is already within that Universe. That is: Matter and/or energy converts to other matter and/or energy. This is nothing against having a God as the ultimate reason for such “order.”

The Catholic teaching that God wills this kind of order is nothing against such scientific theory.