God created the world according to His wisdom (Wisdom 9:9) but not the outcome of any need whatever, nor of unsighted destiny or chance. It begins from God's free will; He desired to make His creatures impart in His being, wisdom and righteousness: "For you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created." (Revelation 4:11)
Therefore the Psalmist cries out: " How varied are your works, LORD! In wisdom you have made them all;the earth is full of your creatures.i"; and " The LORD is good to all, compassionate toward all your works." (Psalm 104:24; 145:9.
God needs no pre-existent thing or any help in order to create, nor is creation any sort of essential release from the divine substance. He creates generously "out of nothing.
If God had created the earth from pre-existent matter, what would be so bizarre about that? A human artisan makes from a given material whatever he desires, while God exhibits His power by starting from nothing to create all He desires.
Scripture bears witness to faith in creation "out of nothing" as a truth full of promise and hope. Thus the mother of seven sons encourages them for martyrdom: I do not know how you came into being in my womb. It was not I who gave you life and breath, nor I who set in order the elements within each of you. Therefore the Creator of the world, who shaped the beginning of man and devised the origin of all things, will in his mercy give life and breath back to you again, since you now forget yourselves for the sake of his laws. . . Look at the heaven and the earth and see everything that is in them, and recognize that God did not make them out of things that existed. Thus also mankind comes into being. (2 Maccabees 7:22-21-28)
As God creates through wisdom, His creation is structured: "You have arranged all things by measure and number and weight." (Wisdom 11:20). The universe, created in and by the eternal Word, the "image of the invisible God", is destined for and addressed to man, himself created in the "image of God" and called to a personal relationship with God. (Colossians 1:15, Genesis 1:26)
Our human understanding, which shares in the light of the divine power, can comprehend what God conveys us by means of His creation, though not without great effort and only in a spirit of humility and respect before the Creator and His work. (Psalm 19:2-5; Job 42:3) Because creation comes forth from God's goodness, it shares in that goodness - "And God saw that it was good. . . very good" (Genesis 1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21 31) - for God desired creation as a gift addressed to man, a heritage destined for and entrusted to Him. On many circumstances the Church has had to secure the goodness of creation, including that of the physical world.
God is immeasurably greater than all His works: "You have set your glory above the heavens." (Psalm 8:1; Sirach 43:28). Indeed, God's "greatness is unsearchable". Psalm 145:3) But because He is the free and sovereign Creator, the first cause of all that exists, God is present to His creatures' inmost being: "In him we live and move and have our being." (Acts 17:28). St. Augustine says, God is "higher than my highest and more inward than my innermost self".
With creation, God does not forsake His creatures to themselves. He not only gives them being and existence, but also constantly upholds and sustains them in being, enables them to act and brings them to their destiny. Recognizing this utter dependence with respect to the Creator is a source of wisdom and freedom, of joy and confidence:
For you love all things that exist, and detest none of the things that you have made; for you would not have made anything if you had hated it. How would anything have endured, if you had not willed it? Or how would anything not called forth by you have been preserved? You spare all things, for they are yours, O Lord, you who love the living (Wisdom 11:24-26).
Creation has its own goodness and appropriate perfection, but it did not spring forth complete from the hands of the Creator. The universe was created "in a state of journeying" toward an ultimate perfection yet to be reached, to which God has destined it. God guides His creation towards perfection through His divine providence” which
protects and governs all things which he has made, "reaching mightily from one end of the earth to the other, and ordering all things well". For "all are open and laid bare to his eyes", even those things which are yet to come into existence through the free action of creatures. (Wisdom 8:1; Hebrew 4:13).
The truth that God is at work in all the actions of His creatures is indissoluble from faith in God the Creator. God is the first cause who functions in and through secondary causes: "For God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure." (Philippians 2:13; 1 Corinthian 12:6). Far from reducing the creature's dignity, this truth boosts it. Drawn from nothingness by God's power, wisdom and righteousness, it can do nothing if it is cut off from its source, for "without a Creator the creature vanishes." Still less can a creature reach its destiny without the help of God's grace. (Matthew 19:26; John 15:5; 14:13).
God is master of the world and of its history. But the approaches of His providence are often mysterious to us. Only at the end, when our partial knowledge stops, when we see God "face to face",(1 Cor 13:12) will we fully discern the ways by which - even through the tragedy of evil and sin - God has guided His creation to that definitive sabbath rest for which he created heaven and earth (Genesis 2:2).
The fact that God allows physical and even moral evil is a mystery that God sheds light by His Son Jesus Christ who died and resurrect to vanquish evil. Faith reassures that God would not permit an evil if He did not cause a good to come from that very evil, in manners that we shall fully discern only in eternal life. Amen!
Conclusion:
With both the big bang and stretching rationalizations, it is tough to picture time beginning, the sudden presence of matter and energy in a small universe, a brief period when laws of physics did not come into view, and space inflation. The big bang theory asserts that space inflated for a short fraction of a second from a mathematical point - trillions of billions of times faster than the velocity of light today. On the other hand, the stretching theory position is that, a much smaller universe than we have today was speedily stretched out, along with the matter and light in that space. Although no scientific explanation can be provided for both forms of inflation, explanation that fits the perceptible proof as presented herein is discernible.
References:
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- Roland Michel Tremblay, Dark-Matter, Dark-Energy and the Big-Bang All Finally Resolved, http://www.grahamhancock.com/
- http://www.space.com/. The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps, by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer | October 18, 2011 05:00pm ET
- Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMB), http://www.bbc.co.uk/
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, http://www.scborromeo.org/
- Michael Finkel for National Geographic, Are We Living in a Black Hole?, http://news.nationalgeographic.com/black-hole-blast-explains-big-bang/
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- http://www.sciencedaily.com, Mysteries of the neutrino: Physicists investigate the Big Bang particleNovember 9, 2012 University of Huddersfield
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