• Question: Who made the world?

    Asked by cdri1809 to Anzy, Aoife, Dave, Matt, Tomasz on 19 Nov 2013. This question was also asked by joeyboii.
    • Photo: David Christensen

      David Christensen answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      I don’t believe that anyone made the world. I prefer to think that the world just happened to come into existence. Although I can’t understand how this could happen, it seems more likely to me that there wasn’t a creator than the idea that there is an all-powerful man who created everything. If we can’t understand how the world was made without there being a god to make it, then how can we explain how that god came to exist? Who made god, if god made the world?

      Personally, I can’t believe in a god for very many reasons, so I can’t believe that the world was created by anyone. The only explanation for me that works is that the world was just made by the luck of physics.

    • Photo: Matthew Tomlinson

      Matthew Tomlinson answered on 19 Nov 2013:

      I don’t think anybody made the world, I think the process took billions of years and followed this model: Stars were formed from hydrogen and helium a few hundred million years after the big bang, these then exploded throwing out heavier elements like oxygen and carbon. After a while these heavier elements clumped together to make clouds of dust and gas that slowly formed around new stars, these clumps grew bigger and bigger (probably because of things like static electricity) until large masses of rock formed because of gravity. These masses of rock became the planets like the Earth and Mars.

      That is a really quick answer to a very complicated question, but I hope it gives you an idea!

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