The rest - created? Asked by: Pete Sears, Australia. The time that has elapsed on a hypothetical clock which has existed since the Big Bang and is now here on Earth will depend on the motion of the clock. You can sign in to give your opinion on the answer. The path back in time cannot be extended beyond 13.7 billion years or so. The Bible states that God not only stretched out the heavens when He created them, but that He is still stretching them out. The universe is a living being - our galaxy is a cell. Thus, the universe has not always existed because we still have usable energy. Near the shuttlecock’s rounded-off bottom, though, the correlations are less reliable; time ceases to exist and is replaced by pure space. No problem, I published my response before I read your followup. Just to reiterate: the universe (all matter/energy) cannot have always existed (been eternal) because of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. This response was put so clearly that even a non-logician like myself could understand! But many cosmologists now believe there are other “universes”, and perhaps our universe arose from one of them. “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. You certainly covered the problems there. Some say that the “Big Bang” was just one of a infinite number of explosions before it. If so, couldn’t that take away the need for a creator rather than the Big Bang where “something” had to be there for it to happen 0 comments "The ‘Universe’ is the set of all sets. And could you please enlighten me more on this?! Genesis 1:1, Composed at least hypothetically of mass/energy, or. CMI has offices in Australia, Canada, Singapore, New Zealand, United Kingdom, South Africa and United States of America. This law of thermodynamics basically states that each time you use energy it is transformed into energy that is less usable. Evidence shows that it is in fact about 13.5 billion years old. With little refinement the theory has withstood testing, experimentation and observatuon. Asked by: Pete Sears, Australia. But Had Jack M., United Kingdom, 2 March 2013, left it at the following, he would have capture my thought on the matter quite nicely: universe - uni - one verse - to turn (Greek), Ted G. needs to give C. S. Lewis' "Miracles" a read. It seems there had to be something happening 20 billion years ago, despite that being before the Big Bang. The universe must have had a "We know the universe exists and cannot have come from something else because the ‘something else’ would already be inside the universe! Read more quotes from Carl Sagan. Nothing more definitive can be said. For example, if you burn a log in the fire you get ash and heat. assuming that which you claim to prove. There are many things that show evidence for the existence of God. Friends Who Liked This Quote. The answer is that there was “nothing” since the space itself was created after the bb. Egyptian scientist Ahmed Farag Ali and Canadian scientist Saurya Das have recently calculated one possible, mathematically sound answer: that the cosmic effects we attribute to the Big Bang may actually represent the steady state of a permanent universe that had no beginning. i.e. People always believe that everything has a beginning and an end... Everything starts from somewhere or something... Everything has walls... What if there are no walls? For the purposes of the mind within that closed system the universe has always existed. What if Space has no beginning and end? Many Scientists today have dogmatically imposed a "Religion of Materialism" on the SCIENTIFIC METHOD. The Fool on the hill. For decades we’ve believed that 13.8 billion years ago the Big Bang set the universe’s clock in motion. 2 shot, killed at Northern Calif. mall on Black Friday. In General Relativity, the Big Bang is a spacetime singularity. We can see distant galaxies racing away from each other, and the space around them is filled with cosmic radiation whose intensity and spread are consistent with that expected from the aftermath of the Big Bang. If (for the sake of argument) it was agreed that God be included in "universe" set, could it be reasonably said that the first divisions of that set are 1. Unfortunately, these peculiarities can very often lead to very common misconceptions. What do you think of the answers? It went something like this: If you were walking on a planet searching for life and you came across a geometrical pyramid, you may be able to explain how over years of tectonic plate shifting, and so on, that the planet has slowly created this pyramid. Yet no system is 100% efficient, and if it wasn’t for our sun, the earth would have grown cold and dead long ago. There is a message in the universe: the information in DNA; the precise balance in a star of the gravity and the forces of the outward explosion; the balance of living thing on earth necessary to keep it habitable — so much order and precision. Sign in. I wonder why. The idea of an ever existing universe is necessary to complete the theory of evolution. It requires that something infinitely improbable will occur if it has an infinite amount of time to occur — which sounds more like a numbers game than science to me. The universe has always been here. Therefore, the universe has always existed! elements of the set.”), Assume a materialist were to discuss set theory with a Christian. Darwin’s real message: have you missed it? New things are forming and unforming. Is this true? In that situation, it is more than likely that there would be an automatic presupposition by both parties that either definition, because it would be assumed by all sides that one is talking about the material world of objects. Begging the question is a logical fallacy, however when comes to dealing with Everything, could we treat God and Universe using common rule of logic? I would say that this is a contradiction. Based on these theorems it is clear that a transcendent cause must exist, which brought the universe into existence. the problem is in the premises, not the logic, as we have seen. Friends Who Liked This Quote. (unstabilized change of relations of matter and mind) 6. Second, it can’t be said that this is a self-serving definition designed by Christians for Christians, since it is one that can be (and has been) agreed upon by Others say there was just the one, but our universe will spin on forever. The usual story of the Universe has a beginning, middle, and an end. The Bible gives us indication that the universe that creatio ex nihilo (God created the Ironically the Big Bang Theory was originally developed by a Catholic Jesuit Priest Gorges Lemaître. It has no intent, no goal, and ultimately, no meaning. In set theory, (which is presumably the framework from which you derive the meaning of the word ‘set’) a set consists of objects. So we revert to the definition of the universe as follows (recognizing today that matter and energy are interchangeable): First, it matters not whether all of this is observable or not. By submitting your comment you are agreeing to receive email updates from. Atheists agree that our universe was started by a “Big Bang.”  The disagreement comes when we ask what made all the noise. But because of theophobia, these apostates aren’t turning to religion either. (By the way, if there was noting, strengthening the materialist maxim of ‘no God’—which if true, would make your assumption invalid in the first place. It is a form of argument from universal causation. So what happened 20 billion years ago? Until now the dominant scientific view is that, somewhere around 13 billion years ago, there was a single point which exploded (AKA, the 'Big Bang'). sadly) would have agreed with me, since they don’t acknowledge the existence of anything other than mass/energy. (If you haven’t received your first email within a few minutes, try checking your spam folder.). … The question, “could the universe have always existed?” is really asking, “can the universe take God’s place?” Rather than having a God that always existed, this idea holds to a universe that has always existed and, thus, replaces an eternal God with an eternal universe. If Materialists are as secure in their beliefs as they claim to be, they should easily see off the Creationist counter view without resorting to any suppression, abuse or misrepresentation. The materialists have no problem with it, because in their view, there is nothing outside of matter/energy. try to slip something past the goalkeeper, hoping no one will notice. The universe, unlike the Creator, does not create; at least it does not create something from nothing. If there was no beginning then the past is infinite. It began with the big bang almost 14 billion years ago. So I … Thus, the universe is slowly running out of usable energy. A notion, I should note that scientists in general disagree with, the disagreeance comes from what created or caused the universe to exist. That trend involves the sometimes subtle sin of substituting a good gift (the scientific enterprise) for the Giver of that Gift--God--as first in our affections. But even the sun will run out of energy some day — as is the same with every star. But we have a finite amount of usable energy. If the universe always existed, then anything that has happened, is happening, or will happen within this closed eternal system has no meaning. there is no non-material, supernatural realm. It seems illogical to me. If the universe always existed, then anything that has happened, is happening, or will happen within this closed eternal system has no meaning. Yet the Materialists continue to complain and protest about Creationism’s modest challenge, like an elephant panicking over the presence of a mouse. Your definition in the way you seek to use it turns out to be totally circular, committing the logical fallacy known as begging the question, Even the article we are directing you to could, in principle, change without notice on sites we do not control. And surely the fact that a large body of scientists now question materialistic theory is in itself an interesting fact, which I would have thought any inquisitive mind, ought to be informed about. Has the universe always existed? I don't want to be kneejerk defensive, and I freely admit to not being a mathematician, but perhaps the depth of your comment re misunderstanding may be a little over the top itself. If your comment is published, your name will be displayed as ". The singularity theorems produced by Steven Hawking and Roger Penrose and expanded upon by Arvind Borde, Alan H. Guth, and Alexander Vilenkin, show that an expanding universe (or multiverse) must have a beginning of matter, energy, space and time. So, here’s the question. Both the Bible and science tell us that we live in an expanding universe. (always has energy) 5. Numbers, which are utilized as abstract representations of objects in the material world. Even the term itself hints at that. So after 45 years and billions of dollars, we find a high probability a Higgs boson existed and then disappeared detected by the huge scientific instrumentation of CERN… but what was the real question? 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