Was the universe created? (not an evolution discussion)

[scott1]

Everything starts with a beginning and everything ends with nothing! So existence began from nothing. How did existence start? That is the ultimate question. I think a meteorite crashed into our planet that had life in it, and poof! life formed. But then you can ask the evolutionists and the creationists. Evo has the best answer and that is there is no answer at all! Right?

If a metorite crashed into Erath and started life where did the metorite come from and how did it get life on it.How whould life be able to survie the Impact

 

[Evo]

Evo has the best answer and that is there is no answer at all! Right?

I actually know the answer, but I don't want to spoil it for everyone.

 

[BobG]

There's really no proof God doesn't exist or he does exist.I know in bible it says that Earth created in 7-days 6000 years ago but couldn't that just be a miss translation like it really the Earth was created in 7 billion years because they didn't have good way of telling time it was written before people started counting years I'am not sure if they could months yet.There's nothing in the bible that said how long ago it was created.When I read it said the Fish water was created before land and animals that's the same oder Biologist said they were created.

How did the author(s) of Genesis figure out the age of the Earth (in fact, considering this was an oral book for a long time, when was the original version created)? And does the first written version (around 500 BCE?) accurately depict the original oral version? I bet the Bible was a lot easier to adapt to the current situation when it was transmitted orally.

Even within the written version, the contributions of several different authors were taken and distributed among the first five books (and I mean different authors within each book, not that the first five were each written by a different author). You can tell, because the authors don't always agree with each other (there's at least three different versions of the Ten Commandments in the Bible). The disagreement would be understandable, considering the oral history of the oldest books. Whoever compiled the works made no effort to decide which was right and which was wrong - how was he to know and, besides, maybe the bigger picture was more important than the details.

It doesn't matter whether a person believes in God or doesn't believe in God. It's still a real stretch to think the creation story in the Bible is anything more than a good story.

 

[scott1]

How did the author(s) of Genesis figure out the age of the Earth (in fact, considering this was an oral book for a long time, when was the original version created)? And does the first written version (around 500 BCE?) accurately depict the original oral version? I bet the Bible was a lot easier to adapt to the current situation when it was transmitted orally.
Even within the written version, the contributions of several different authors were taken and distributed among the first five books (and I mean different authors within each book, not that the first five were each written by a different author). You can tell, because the authors don't always agree with each other (there's at least three different versions of the Ten Commandments in the Bible). The disagreement would be understandable, considering the oral history of the oldest books. Whoever compiled the works made no effort to decide which was right and which was wrong - how was he to know and, besides, maybe the bigger picture was more important than the details.
It doesn't matter whether a person believes in God or doesn't believe in God. It's still a real stretch to think the creation story in the Bible is anything more than a good story.

Good point about the how long ago when Geneisis was written
What I was trying to say was that it's possible that Geneisis and science can both be true.