The accepted theory is that matter can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be changed in form. This is the combination of The Law of Conservation of Mass by Antoine Lavoisier which states that matter can neither be created or destroyed. Years later Julius Robert Mayer discovered The Law of Conversation of Energy. Some of us engineering type folks lovingly refer to this as The First Law of Thermodynamics. Energy is neither created or destroyed. Albert Einstein merged the two laws, years after Mayer's discovery and postulated that matter and energy can be changed in form. These physical laws inspire quite a bit of thought regarding the creation, etc.
roadsideron wrote:
In the final analysis there probably is no real matter as we think we know it, it's just energy packaged up tightly. And that's not really against any creation or evolution theories. Nothing says that creation or evolution, or some third theory we haven't though of yet, didn't originate from energy.