What is the point of the universe?

There is no centre of the universe! According to the standard theories of cosmology, the universe started with a “Big Bang” about 14 thousand million years ago and has been expanding ever since. Yet there is no centre to the expansion; it is the same everywhere.

How was the universe created from nothing?

Virtually all astronomers now believe that the universe sprang forth in what is known as the “Big Bang” explosion, from a state of extraordinary compression and phenomenally high temperature in which forces such as gravity and electromagnetism were unified in a single, all-encompassing force.

Is the universe still cooling?

Summary: Astronomers have taken the universe’s temperature, and have found that it has cooled down just the way the Big Bang theory predicts. Astronomers using a CSIRO radio telescope have taken the Universe’s temperature, and have found that it has cooled down just the way the Big Bang theory predicts.

Did God create life on Earth or did life arise?

Unbelievers often take this reasoning one step further and ask, if God did not create life on earth, but it simply arose on its own, then surely elsewhere in the vast universe, life has arisen as well. After all, they say, there is nothing special about human beings; we are simply among the most highly evolved species on our planet.

Why did God create the universe?

Whatever God has created—galaxies, solar systems, or planets with or without life (or both)—God has created for His own glory and pleasure in His creation. The vastness of the universe is therefore not an indication that God does not exist or that He is wasteful of space, but is rather an indication of God’s unlimited creativity and power.

Why did we come to this earth?

This earth is a classroom, a really tough classroom, and we came because we needed the hard lessons it would assign to us. The Course, however, seems to hold out a much darker view: We came here as an expression of the ego’s wish for us to die, a cosmic version of what Freud called the “death drive.”

What are the origins of life on Earth?

The origins of life cannot be dated as precisely, but there is evidence that bacteria-like organisms lived on Earth 3.5 billion years ago, and they may have existed even earlier, when the first solid crust formed, almost 4 billion years ago.