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What do you believe about the entire universe? Did it "come into being"? If so, when and why?

Do you think the universe (time, space, energy, matter, etc) was long ago, somehow "created" from nothingness?

Or was it somehow already here, as it has been always?

Personally for me, neither makes sense. It couldn't have been there already. If something exists, it needs a beginning to actually develop. But it couldn't have been created either because "time" itself cannot be created. Time is forever. Even if the universe was long ago created from absolute nothingness, time exists already. Think about it, absolute non-existence of anything but time always fits in. If the universe was created, how long was it before that started occuring?

I asked my friend what he thought and it was the same belief as mine.

It does not matter what you believe in, the universe is there, science is somehow like a way of thinking, creating and gathering questions to yourself. It is here, we are here, just accept it.

I like to think that the Big Bang happened, but I can't process that idea without getting a head ache. And I personally don't buy the whole story about man being created by a superior being, deity, or whatever. I need proof, dammit!

I really don't know what to believe, like you said "If something exists, it needs a beginning to actually develop" so how did Earth started existing? Guess we'll all find out when we die. Maybe everything has one of those "oh, I didn't think of that" answers, but our human minds can't comprehend it yet. Sorry for rambling on without actually making a point, but bottom line for me is that there's something fishy about all this, maybe there are secret governments trying to cover the truth that we're actually gerbils being tested by aliens...

Ha, that's a funny way of looking at it.

I'm at a stage where I'm really at a loss for what to believe. I was raised a Anglican and then Baptist Christian so through my childhood I always sort of just accepted that there was this one god. But as I've grown and become more influenced by peers and the media, I've come to question all of that.

I tend to still believe that there is some kind of superior being, just because looking at it any other way is beyond my mental capacity. So maybe I'm taking the easy way out...

Idk... I don't give it much thought but I've seen the universe and nature in general to be extremly random. From my understanding physics are basically perfect, imperfections in these basic laws would just... make the universe not work correctly.

To get something to reach such a degree of perfection where talking trail and error on an infinent scale. Things happen because they can in nature. Things don't happen becuase they can't happen in nature.

Kind of like water? Water flows where it can, things flow where they can.... hahaha.

I like the idea of "god" being a form more then a being... In my mind all god could really be is literally, everything... Kind of stupid that thoguht though, then god doesnt reallyexist as somethign I couldnt understand haha.

Pantheism. You should (if you haven't already) read some of William Wordsworth's poetry. Actually you all should - he has a way of bringing out the hidden beauty of our world in a way similar to Shinkai's.

BTW, for the record I do believe that God created the universe. Call me old-fashioned, but that's what I believe.

I'm a Christian... I believe God created the universe.