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Originally Posted by Thor
I'd like to mention, since this comes often up with people not well versed in physics; is that to make any sense of our greater understanding of the universe and its existence is to think of it as eternal.
No beginning, no end, just existence that has been and always will be.
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Most religions that I am familiar with maintain that God is an infinite and eternal being, so for the religious among us I would imagine that an idea of things without beginning or end is not as foreign as one may think.
If God is eternal, why is it impossible that matter could be as well? Not all Christian religions teach that God created the universe from nothingness. There are some who believe that he rearranged "matter unorganized."
Depending on what one's ideas of God and creation are, religion does not necessarily exclude science. It is entirely possible for God as an almighty being to be the impetus, while science as we understand it could explain his methods.