Creator

We're so used to thinking of our world as the product of millions of years of random mutation that the idea of a Creator God seems so dark ages as to be right out of the picture.

But then I get to thinking about the boundaries of the universe. Here we have a vast expanse that seems to go on endlessly. So there must be some kind of box around it, right? But a box implies an inside and an outside. So what's outside the box? Another universe with an even bigger box around it? Then what's outside that box?

This is a pretty foolish and non-scientific way to look at it, though. A lot of people who seem to know about these things say the universe probably loops, like one of those sound files that plays itself over an over forever. But I can't picture a loop. It has something to do with seemingly straight lines that actually curve. Who knows whether the loop explanation can fly?

So I'm left with saying that the universe has no boundaries. It just goes on forever, infinitely.

If that's what we have, then why would it be so hard to imagine an infinite God who created it? The alternative is that an infinite universe simply is, or somehow came into being by chance or a big bang (but where would the energy for a big bang come from?).

This brings up the whole question of the eternity of matter. Either matter always was or it came into being from some unknown cause. Matter implies energy which needs something - friction or heat or whatever - to activate it. So what got all of this going? Blind chance?

Or God?