Originally posted by davidche:
[b]Arguement from creation
scientific: big bang theory, secondlaw of thermodynamics, saying that the universe is running out of usable energy. But if it was running down, ity would not be eternal. somthing that is winding down has to be wound up.
philosophical: Time cannot go back to the past forever. 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 finsh an infonite series of real things. If the past is infinite, (if the universe has always exist without a beginning) then we have never could pass through time to get to today. if the world never had a beginning, then we could not have reached 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.
and then there is: arguement from design,.. moral law,.. and being.[/b]
Big Bang is christian in nature. It was created by a Catholic priest in 1929. I think thats the main reason why scientist hate the Big Bang theory LOL.
The Big Bang theory developed from observations of the structure of the universe and from theoretical considerations. Observers determined that most "spiral nebulae" were receding from Earth, but did not grasp the cosmological implications of this fact, or realize that the supposed nebulae were galaxies outside our Milky Way.[5]
Georges Lemaître, a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, independently derived the Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker equations from Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity in 1927 and proposed, on the basis of the recession of spiral nebulae, that the universe began as a simple "primeval atom"—now known as the Big Bang (wikipedia)