Did God Create the Universe?

   The Veda asserts that there was neither existence (sada), nor  Non-existence (asada) at the beginning-less beginning! [See nasadiya Sukta Rk Veda] Then what was there? The scientists say, "The universe is filled with dark 'Energy' (76%) and dark Matter (26%) and the remaining is the galaxies and stars. Hydrogen is the light gaseous element that has created the stars like the Sun and the fission and fusion produces the elements like Helium, Carbon, Oxygen, Gold, Platinum, Silver, Iron, Magnesium, Silicon, Aluminum, Magnesium, etc. the fundamental bricks of the universe. The clash and explosion of the neutron stars produce the gravitational waves, the electromagnetic waves, release of atomic energy, and the like. Now the question is that of energy becoming matter and vice versa. Who is the radical force behind all these physical and chemical actions and reactions? When did and how did Hydrogen manifest and how Water,earth and the living beings are created? Id there God or any supernatural powers that create these things or just they happen on their own?  What is Time and Space Continuum and when did they manifest and from where? The answer is not yet clear. 

 One view is that "God did not create the Universe" and the 'Big Bang' was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book. In The Grand Design (co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow), Hawking says a new series of theories made a Creator of the Universe redundant according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason that there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist,"  

   We have made tremendous progress in cosmology in the last hundred years. The General Theory of Relativity and the discovery of the expansion of the universe shattered the old picture of an ever-existing and everlasting universe. Instead, general relativity predicted that the universe, and time itself, would begin in the big bang. It also predicted that time would come to an end in black holes. The discovery of the cosmic microwave background and observations of black holes support these conclusions. This is a profound change in our picture of the universe and of reality itself. Thus, general relativity on its own cannot answer the central question in cosmology: Why is the universe the way it is? However, if general relativity is combined with quantum theory it may be possible to predict how the universe would start. It would initially expand at an ever-increasing rate.

   Einstein's General Theory of Relativity unified time and space as space-time, but time was still different from space and was like a corridor, which either had a beginning and end, or went on forever. However, when one combines General Relativity with Quantum Theory, Jim Hartle realized that time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions. This means one can get rid of the problem of time having a beginning, in a similar way in which we got rid of the edge of the world.  If one believed that the universe had a beginning, the obvious question was what happened before the beginning? What was God doing before He made the world? Was He preparing Hell for people who asked such questions? The problem of whether or not the universe had a beginning was a great concern to the German philosopher, Immanuel Kant. He felt there were logical contradictions, or antimonies, either way. If the universe had a beginning, why did it wait an infinite time before it began? He called that the thesis. On the other hand, if the universe had existed for ever, why did it take an infinite time to reach the present stage? He called that the antithesis. Both these thesis and the antithesis depended on Kant's assumption, along with almost everyone else, that time was Absolute. That is to say, it went from the infinite past to the infinite future, independently of any universe, that might or might not exist, in this background. This is just an image, a picture, in the mind of scientists today.

But, the Vedic doctrines were clear as to the nature of the creation, its sustenance and dissolution. The Veda and Agama Shastra invoke a Deva Narayana in the form of embodiment of pure Consciousness on the screen of which this entire universe moves as if a movie film! The universe is His ‘Will’, chittavrutti, mentation, images created in His own form! It is said, “God created man and man created God”. The sculptors cut the images in the sandal wood, marble, shalagrama stone, or mould in liquid metals of gold, silver, copper or five alloy metals (pancha loha). All these are images carved out of imagination! There is no doubt as to what the universe is and who the God is! But, in science, everything is a hypothesis, theory, postulation, and a probability, at the most. Even the visuals of images of stars and galaxies, the distances calculated  in mind-bogging ‘Light Years’ make no sense to ordinary people.

   The Sun is more massive and intrinsically brighter than 95% of stars in our galaxy. The red dwarf stars — M-class stars — which are no more than 40% the mass of our Sun, make up 3 out of every 4 stars that are out there. What’s more than that, our Sun exists in isolation; it is not gravitationally bound to any other stars. But that is not necessarily how stars exist in the galaxy, either. The universe is a vast infinite space which includes the earth and all the heavenly bodies in the sky. The sky contains the Sun, Planets (their moons), Stars, Galaxies, Comets, Asteroids and Satellites. [See Figs.] The earth is formed out of the gaseous 

matter (Helium) that was emitted by the solar flares and gradually cooled and condensed to the present gross physical state-Water 78 % sial and Sima crust 21%. There is enormous heat within the earth and molten material along with gas is emitted through vents, cracks, fissures and volcanoes even today. The interior of the earth is a hard Nickel and Iron (NiFe) core subject to fluctuations. Magmatic material constitutes the outer core of the earth. The inner core and outer core are separated by a shell that prevents any passage of seismic waves!