Niether Created nor Destroyed

Part I.
Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Same goes for energy. Momentum. Charge. All that. These must all be conserved.

This is a basic, fundamental law of science that anyone who has ever taken a junior high science class knows. It is the basis for everything a scientist studies, that I am working with as a graduate student (conservation of spin!). You can't make matter out of nothing, and it doesn't just disappear; you can take carbon and oxygen and make carbon monoxide, but it doesn't ever become nitrogen and hydrogen. You can take potential energy and transform it into kinetic energy, mechanical energy, and back, but that's it. You can only convert matter and energy.

Genesis 1:1 (and echoed in John 1) In the beginning, God--
In the beginning, God. In the beginning was God. Before he created anything, there was God. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Before anything in all creation, there was God, and he can neither be created nor destroyed; he is the only "thing" that has any right to say that he wasn't created--he just was The most basic and fundamental law of science derives from WHO God IS.

(see Genesis 1:1, John 1:1, John 1:3)

Part II.
I was cleaning up a reaction, and I was muttering to myself about having to deal with the waste products, and thinking about how I've made all this (mildly) toxic crud, and it has be packed and shipping specially, and dumped somewhere "safe" away from us...
And then I realized: When God created, he didn't have any waste. He didn't have any waste! It has implications for how we handle our own behaviors in terms of what we produce, but the major implication (momentarily) is what it means for us as people: We are not waste products. No one is a waste product. It's not like God worked at making this one really great person and other people were just waste byproducts. NO! God created each and every single one of us, deliberately. Me. You.