Creatio Ex Nihilo

Protestant Christian Biblical Conservative) Theism believes and profess (“in God the
Creator, God the Incarnate Jesus and God the Holy Ghost – One Person Three Natures”,
simile1-matter, water; three states – solid, liquid and gas) that God created the universe
from nothing. Circumstantial evidence and experimental validation has been furnished in
a three dimensional perspective to prove. Other notions seems absurd, those causing
bloody religious fuss and chaos.
Philosophy Views
For Plato, human beings live in a world of visible and intelligible things. The visible world
is what surrounds us: what we see, what we hear what we experience; this visible world is
a world of change and uncertainty. The intelligible world made up of the unchanging
products of human reason: anything arising from reason alone, such as abstract
definitions or mathematics, makes up this intelligible world, which is the world of reality.
The intelligible world contains the eternal "Forms" (in Greek, idea) of things; the visible
world is the imperfect and changing manifestation in this world of this unchanging
forms.2.
Aristotle was the first major thinker to base his thought and science entirely on the idea
that everything that moves or changes caused to move or change by some other thing. The
four causes: a.) the material cause: the matter out of which a thing is made (clay is the
material cause of a bowl), b.) The formal cause: the pattern, model, or structure upon
which a thing is made (the formal cause of a bowl is "bowl-shaped"; the formal cause of a
human is "human-shaped"), c.) The efficient cause: the means or agency by which a thing
comes into existence (a potter is the efficient cause of a bowl), d.) The final (in Greek, telos)
cause: the goal or purpose of a thing, its function or potential (holding cereal and milk is
the final cause of a bowl). The final cause is the most unscientific, but is by far the most
important "cause" of a thing as far as Aristotle was concerned. Aristotle's analysis of
phenomenon and change, then, is fundamentally teleological (everything is always
changing and moving, and has some aim, goal, or purpose - telos).3
Theology Views
What again if another say that “invisible and visible nature is not indeed inappropriately
called heaven and earth; and so, that the universal creation, which God made in His
Wisdom, that is, in the Beginning, was comprehended under those two words?
Notwithstanding, since all things be made not of the substance of God, but out of nothing
(because they are not the same that God is, and there is a mutable nature in them all,
whether they abide, as doth the eternal house of God, or be changed, as the soul and
body of man are): therefore the common matter of all things visible and invisible (as yet
unformed though capable of form), out of which was to be created both heaven and earth
(i. the invisible and visible creature when formed), was entitled by the same names given
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to the earth invisible and without form and the darkness upon the deep, but with this
distinction, that by the earth invisible and without form is understood corporeal matter,
antecedent to its being qualified by any form; and by the darkness upon the deep,
spiritual matter, before it underwent any restraint of its unlimited fluidness, or received
any light from Wisdom?”4. (John 1:3, Romans 4:17, 1 Corinthians 1:28, Hebrews 11:3)
Scientific Facts
Einstein's famous equation, E = mc2, teaches us that matter and energy are
interchangeable, merely different forms of the same thing. However, energy is supposed to
have a source — either matter or radiation. The notion here is that space, even when
devoid of all matter and radiation, has a residual energy. That "energy of space," when
considered on a cosmic scale, leads to a force that increases the expansion of the
universe.
Perhaps dark energy results from weird behaviour on scales smaller than atoms. The
physics of the very small, called quantum mechanics, allows energy and matter to appear
out of nothingness, although only for the tiniest instant. The constant brief appearance
and disappearance of matter could be giving energy to otherwise empty space.
Einstein's theory of gravity, called general relativity, can explain everything from the
movements of planets to the physics of black holes, but it simply doesn't seem to apply on
the scale of the particles that make up atoms. Quantum mechanics explains the way
particles function, but it simply does not apply on any scale larger than an atom. The
elusive solution for combining the two theories might yield a natural explanation for dark
energy.
We do know this: Since space is everywhere, this dark energy force is everywhere, and its
effects increase as space expands. In contrast, gravity's force is stronger when things are
close together and weaker when they are far apart. Because gravity is weakening with the
expansion of space, dark energy now makes up over 2/3 of all the energy in the
universe.5.
Affirmations
Atheist (“There is no God, I am God”); Pantheist (“God is All-All is God, My soul is God”),
Polytheist ("Believe in many gods - forget God"), Panentheist ("All-in-God"), Deist (“No
Supernatural Intervention and Trinity”), etc., still believe in either "creatio ex materia,"
which is creation out of eternally preexistent matter or "creatio ex deo," which is creation
out of the being of God. Because of their religious egoism, antagonism, jeopardy and
jealously they are willing to be damned rather than be inspired1 to Spiritual Regeneration6,
instead of illumination1 to religious conversion6.
Reference:
1. Ramm, Bernard., ‘Protestant Biblical Interpretation’, Baker Book House, Grand
Rapids, Michigan, USA, 1990, Pg. 143, 14.

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2. http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/PLATO.HTM.
3. http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/ARIST.HTM.
4. Saint Augustine (13-Nov-354 to 28-Aug-430), ‘The Confessions of Saint Augustine’,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2426763/The-Confessions-of-St-Augustine, Pg. 606.
5. http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/dark_energy/de-what_is_dark_energy.php.
6. Janapala, M., ‘Problems Endeavoured by Spiritual Regeneration into Christ from a
Non-Christian Background (In Indian Subcontinent)’, Thesis – M.A (Biblical
Counselling), ‘CARE’ Counselling Institute, May 2007,
http://www.scribd.com/doc/950759/Spiritual-Regeneration.
7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki (general).
About the author
Mahaveer Janapala is a Structural Engineer and Interface Manager in an EPC
Company. He is a postgraduate in Structural Engineering and a graduate in Civil
Engineering from Osmania University (www.osmania.ac.in). He has a post graduation in
Biblical Counselling from ‘CARE’ Counselling Institute
(http://carecounseling.mahalife.com/) affiliated to ‘TOPIC’ (www.topic.us). He was born
(1977), brought up and educated in Hyderabad-India, presently working and residing
in Mumbai, India.

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