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Why did God create the rest of the universe?

Hatuey

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Alright so I'm reading this book on the universe. Apparently it's huge. Millions of planets, stars and hundreds of galaxies and celestial bodies and in between them nothing but light years of nothing. It's got me thinking. If God created all of this why did he create it? Why would he create such a big playground knowing we'd be using less then 1% of it. I'm sure there must be at least ONE other habitable planet in this universe but the chances of finding it are small. At least from what I've read. So I've been wondering. Why did God create such a large 'environment' for us to live in knowing we'd likely never see most of it? I've traveled around the world and I've seen many places and I know why humans create buildings, roads, agricultural fields, hospitals and everything else they build. It's because they're going to use it and they want their children to use it. But we're not really 'using the universe'. We're using 'one' planet in that universe leaving the rest of it virgin and unexplored. So what was the point in creating such a large place for a creation that would never use it? I don't want any bible references just your honest ideas.
 
Why do we do the things we do? Go to the Louvre, and explain in rational terms why that collection exists.

Why do people make crop circles? What is the purpose of music?

I would assume that there is joy in creation fro the Devine as well as for Man.

Besides, we have only recently discovered the we can not only not account for, but not even describe the majority of mass and energy in the known cosmos.

It may well be that the whole structure exists for a mundane purpose, a machine of some sort for instance. We would be as unlikely to grasp what it's for or why it exists as my cat would be to understand the purpose of a carburetor.

As a side note, it is also possible that the Universe is not in fact very big at all, but that we are terribly, terribly small.
 
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Why do we do the things we do? Go to the Louvre, and explain in rational terms why that collection exists.

Historical value, evolution in art concepts etc etc.
Why do people make crop circles?

15 minutes of fame.
What is the purpose of music?

Promoting culture, values and of course fame.

I would assume that there is joy in creation fro the Devine as well as for Man.

Besides, we have only recently discovered the we can not only not account for, but not even describe the majority of mass and energy in the known cosmos.

It may well be that the whole structure exists for a mundane purpose, a machine of some sort for instance. We would be as unlikely to grasp what it's for or why it exists as my cat would be to understand the purpose of a carburetor.

Finally and I thank you for this explanation but it still relies on the 'grand design' idea that provides no real answer only a rough concept.

As a side note, it is also possible that the Universe is not in fact very big at all, but that we are terribly, terribly small.

Uh no the universe is actually pretty big.
 
Uh no the universe is actually pretty big.
ROFLOL!

How can we know, we can only measure it against our selves and our limitations!

To a bacterium, even if there were a pretty bright one, my house is colossal.


So many of our concepts rely on ourselves for context.
 
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Finally and I thank you for this explanation but it still relies on the 'grand design' idea that provides no real answer only a rough concept.

Well, there isn't an answer. If we knew that we'd know the mind of "God". The universe simply is...the why is respective to the individual asking it. It's an interesting metaphysical inquiry but there isn't a "real answer", as you put it.

If I were to speculate (because that's all I can do) I would say that the emptiness and vastness of space is simply a necessary part of a more comprehensive model. Its existence is merely a side-effect of conceptual necessity.
 
Aren't we really looking back in time as we gaze out into the universe? I wonder if "time/space" isn't actually more simply "time" and the "space" part isn't really there...I haven't really worked that idea out yet, but...it's the start of a thought on it. :shrug:
 
Historical value, evolution in art concepts etc etc.
By the way, this is no answer at all really. Why do we value history that does not teach useful lessons? (At is full of such.)

"Evolution in art concepts," answers more of a "what" than a "why," and "etcetera, etcetera" is pretty much Latin for "darned if I know"
 
Aren't we really looking back in time as we gaze out into the universe? I wonder if "time/space" isn't actually more simply "time" and the "space" part isn't really there...I haven't really worked that idea out yet, but...it's the start of a thought on it.

Interesting thought. I feel the OP question is a bit flawed in that "empty" space wasn't "created" but merely arose as a consequence of cosmic expansion. It's like placing your palms against one another and drawing them apart, the space in between them wasn't really created so much as it was revealed. As for "space" not really being there it's a mischaracterization, I feel. It's more accurate to view space as a field or plane which warps and bends and interacts with matter and energy.
 
Interesting thought. I feel the OP question is a bit flawed in that "empty" space wasn't "created" but merely arose as a consequence of cosmic expansion. It's like placing your palms against one another and drawing them apart, the space in between them wasn't really created so much as it was revealed. As for "space" not really being there it's a mischaracterization, I feel. It's more accurate to view space as a field or plane which warps and bends and interacts with matter and energy.

I think he meant the billions of billions of galaxies made of billions of stars, rather than the empty space in between
 
I think he meant the billions of billions of galaxies made of billions of stars, rather than the empty space in between.

Ah, I see. I was concentrating on his reference to the light years in between the galaxies and planets, however, I feel the answer I provided can accurately adress this as well. The presence of these planets and galaxies, it would seem, are merely a side-effect of conceptual necessity; that or "God" is simply trying to smatter his canvas with as much paint as possible.
 
Ah, I see. I was concentrating on his reference to the light years in between the galaxies and planets, however, I feel the answer I provided can accurately adress this as well. The presence of these planets and galaxies, it would seem, are merely a side-effect of conceptual necessity; that or "God" is simply trying to smatter his canvas with as much paint as possible.
As an amusing side note, in a science fiction trilogy, that "empty space" was the more important part of the universe where higher life forms lived, while stars and planets were interruptions in "deep heaven" where lower life forms dwelt.
 
Alright so I'm reading this book on the universe. Apparently it's huge. Millions of planets, stars and hundreds of galaxies and celestial bodies and in between them nothing but light years of nothing. It's got me thinking. If God created all of this why did he create it?
Why not?
Dont you think its kind of silly to wonder why the omnipotent do what they do?
Don't you think its even more silly to think that you or anyone else might actually have the answer?
 
By the way, this is no answer at all really. Why do we value history that does not teach useful lessons? (At is full of such.)

"Evolution in art concepts," answers more of a "what" than a "why," and "etcetera, etcetera" is pretty much Latin for "darned if I know"

If you're discounting the anatomical drawings of people like Leonardo da Vinci or Brunelleschi discovering perspective or the use of reflective mirrors by the Flemish painters to describe the world around them in paintings or the constant desire to drive the technology that records our everyday world then you've maybe got quite a bit of reading to do.

To go further, the true 17 forms of mathematical pattern were first described in the art of the Alhambra palace yet it took until 1973 or so when an Oxford mathematician rediscover what had been discovered 1200 years ago. There are many examples and I think Hatuey has you on this one.
 
Our senses are limited. There is no such thing as “empty space”. Every cubic centimeter is occupied.
 
Our senses are limited. There is no such thing as “empty space”. Every cubic centimeter is occupied.

Which proves that he needed some place for all that stuff.


And there has been one place in all the universe that has been proven to be "empty space" and lucky me! It resides between my ears. :mrgreen:
 
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I used to believe that there just had to be other intelligent life out there at one time. And that is the real issue. Not just life but intelligent life. If we just find microbes and simple forms of life that will not end the Theological vs Scientific quarrels. They will just take a different form.

But evidence today is showing a much less probability of Intelligent life "out there" than was first believed when we put together things like SETI. The universe is a very hostile place to life at least life as we know it. Judeo - Christian religion teaches that we humans are Gods greatest creation, So what if God knowing that someday we would begin exploring the universe in various manners intentionally made it big and empty simply to emphasize that point?
Moe
 
I used to believe that there just had to be other intelligent life out there at one time. And that is the real issue. Not just life but intelligent life. If we just find microbes and simple forms of life that will not end the Theological vs Scientific quarrels. They will just take a different form.
How will finding intelligent life end the theological v scientific quarrels?

But evidence today is showing a much less probability of Intelligent life "out there" than was first believed when we put together things like SETI. The universe is a very hostile place to life at least life as we know it.
True, but...
An infinite universe has an infinite number of intelligent species.

Judeo - Christian religion teaches that we humans are Gods greatest creation...
...here on earth.
 
So what was the point in creating such a large place for a creation that would never use it?

God could have just dreamed of the Hatuey, but the multicultural whoring universal values that the principalities and powers of the air type democracy demands, or Obamanation virus, would have infected all the other Republics in the quantum computer generated Universe. So even though light could not escape God had no choice but to bang so some Republicans could escape the reach of the Obamanation virus.
 
He didn't have The Sims.
 
Alright so I'm reading this book on the universe. Apparently it's huge. Millions of planets, stars and hundreds of galaxies and celestial bodies and in between them nothing but light years of nothing. It's got me thinking. If God created all of this why did he create it? Why would he create such a big playground knowing we'd be using less then 1% of it. I'm sure there must be at least ONE other habitable planet in this universe but the chances of finding it are small. At least from what I've read. So I've been wondering. Why did God create such a large 'environment' for us to live in knowing we'd likely never see most of it? I've traveled around the world and I've seen many places and I know why humans create buildings, roads, agricultural fields, hospitals and everything else they build. It's because they're going to use it and they want their children to use it. But we're not really 'using the universe'. We're using 'one' planet in that universe leaving the rest of it virgin and unexplored. So what was the point in creating such a large place for a creation that would never use it? I don't want any bible references just your honest ideas.

Ahh, so bible=dishonest.

Your off on the wrong foot.

Each major religion tells of visitation from ETs, so it is my belief that God created the other >99% of the universe for these other beings.
 
Ahh, so bible=dishonest.

Your off on the wrong foot.

Each major religion tells of visitation from ETs, so it is my belief that God created the other >99% of the universe for these other beings.

Even Cleveland!?!?!?!?!?
 
Even Cleveland!?!?!?!?!?

Cleveland is actually spires atop the berried alien space city that crash landed millions of years ago when Tom Green was considered funny.
 
Cleveland is actually spires atop the berried alien space city that crash landed millions of years ago when Tom Green was considered funny.

Tom Green was considered funny?!?!?!?!?!?!




Now I'm starting to think you are making this whole thing up.
 
My bum is on this thread.
 
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