A Law of Nature and the Proof of a Creator

One of the most stable and well-established laws of nature is that in our universe, matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed — only transformed from one form to another.

The total amount of matter and energy in the universe is absolute.
Not a single atom can be added, and not a single atom can disappear.

This raises a profound question: If nothing can be added to or taken away from the universe — how did all of this matter and energy come to exist in the first place? Where did the trillions of tons of material in the cosmos come from? From where did the enormous energy that sustains it all emerge?

Logically, something cannot create itself from nothing. And something that exists cannot have brought itself intoexistence.

Therefore, whatever exists must have been brought into being by a Creator — a source that itself is not physical, because if the Creator were physical, it too would need to have been created, and we would be forced to ask: Who created the Creator?

This leads to an infinite regress that can only be resolved by the existence of a non-physical, eternal cause — what we call God.

Beyond Matter, Beyond Time

The Creator, then, is not a physical entity but a force beyond nature.

Can we comprehend a being that has no beginning? How do we remove the Creator from the question of “Who created Him?”

To answer that, we must understand the concept of time. According to modern cosmology, the first measurable moment — the beginning of time itself, was the Big Bang, the explosion of energy from a single, dense point.

Before the Big Bang, there was no time at all. As physicists themselves acknowledge, the question “What happened before time = 0?” is meaningless, because there was no “before.” Time itself was created together with matter and energy.

God Is Not Bound by Time

Time is a physical dimension — defined by past, present, and future.

The Creator, who existed before time, is beyond time. He has no beginning and no end. Only something that exists outside of time does not need to be created — and only such a being could create time itself.

Our human minds, bound by temporal and physical limits, cannot fully comprehend infinity. We live within time; thus, we cannot mentally grasp that which is beyond it.

That is why we cannot ask, “When did God begin?” For the Creator is not subject to time — He is infinite and eternal.

Why There Can Be Only One Infinite Creator

Because the Creator is infinite, He must be one and indivisible.
Infinity cannot have an equal or a rival — since infinity plus anything (even another infinity) is still infinity. If there were another being like Him, it would be contained within the same infinity, and there would still be only one total reality.

Thus, the Creator must be absolutely singular, with nothing before Him, beside Him, or after Him. This is also why He is above all natural laws. He is not bound by them — He authored them.

The Lawmaker Behind the Laws

Every law must have a lawgiver. Sometimes we may not understand the reason behind a law, but we can still observe its order and consistency.

The same is true for the laws of nature. If there are natural laws that govern all matter and energy in the universe, then logically there must be a Mind that established them.

It is not enough to say, “The universe just always existed,” because even that existence is governed by laws — and laws require a source.

The laws of physics themselves are the framework within which matter and energy operate. Without these precise laws, there would be only chaos.

The fact that our universe functions through an elegant, harmonious system of finely tuned laws that permit the formation of stars, stable matter, and ultimately life, demonstrates that the Lawgiver is intelligent.