The Christians argument- argument from creation
- The universe had a beginning
- Anything that has a beginning must be caused by something
else
- This cause is God
Atheist would oppose and say that the universe is eternal. Never
had a beginning. Carl Sagan says, The cosmos is all that is, or
ever was or ever will be. Always existed.
However, I have few ways to answer this objection.
Scientific:
Entropy, Second law of thermodynamics, says that the universe is
running out of usable energy. But if it was running down, it would
not be eternal. Something that is winding down has to be wound
up.
The big bang theory.
Complicated concept. Evidence of radiation leftovers found.
Robert Jastrow, founder-director of NASAs Goddard Institute of
Space studies, A sound explanation may exist for the explosive
birth of our universe but sciences pursuit of the past ends in the
moment of creation
Hubbles law, red shift.
Edwin Hubble discovered that the galaxies were moving away from
each other. The more distant the object the faster it was moving
away. This indicated the universe was expanding. The conclusion,
based on this law, if we move backwards in time we eventually come
to a point where time equals zero. At that moment T=0, matter and
energy become compressed into zero dimensional space.
Philosophical: You see it is impossible to pass through an infinite
series of moments. Time is real and each moment that passes uses up
real time that we can go back to. You can never finish an infinite
series of real things. If the past is infinite, (aka, if the
universe has always exist without a beginning) then we have never
could pass through time to get to today. So time must have began in
a particular time in the past and today has come at a definite time
since then. Therefore the world is a finite event and needs a cause
for beginning.
FYI
The conserving cause of creation
The universe needs a cause for its continuing existence. After it
has come to beginning it is continuing and conserving its existence
in the present.
Terms:
- Finite, changing things exist. (I exist)
- Ever finite, changing thing must be caused by something
else.
If it is limited and it changes, then it cannot be something that
exists independently. If it exists independently, it would have
always existed without ever changing.
-There must be a first uncased cause of every finite changing
things