Quotes About Cosmology

THE KALAM COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: A SIMPLE FORMULATION

Multiverse Some cosmologists speculate that our observable universe is just an expanding bubble in a much wider sea of energy, which is also expanding. Since this wider universe contains many other bubbles in addition to ours, it is often called a multiverse. The Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem also applies to the multiverse as a whole, not just to the individual bubbles within it. Thus, even if there is a multiverse, it cannot be eternal in the past but must have had a beginning.

Ghazali frames his argument simply: "Every being which begins has a cause for its beginning; now the world is a being which begins; therefore, it possesses a cause for its beginning.

Adopting the multiverse hypothesis to explain our ordered observations would thus result once more in a strange sort of illusionism.

Even though we may not like it, concludes Davies, we must say on the basis of the thermodynamic properties of the universe that the universe's energy was somehow simply "put in" at the creation as an initial condition.118 Prior to the creation, says Davies, the universe simply did not exist.

Why didn't God make the world sooner? In the early fifth century AD, Augustine of Hippo answered that God did not make the universe at a point in time, but "simultaneously with time." That is, he believed God had created space and time together. Modern cosmologists have come to agree that he was right about space and time, and therefore it is meaningless to ask why the big bang didn't happen earlier than it did.

No solo las Escrituras implican fuertemente la creación ex nihilo, sino que la evidencia empírica de un comienzo absoluto del universo parece tener ramificaciones teológicas trascendentales

The first question which should rightly be asked is: Why is there something rather than nothing?"[1]

Conclusion On the basis, therefore, of both philosophical and scientific evidence, we have good grounds for believing that the universe began to exist. Since whatever begins to exist has a cause of its beginning, it follows that the universe has a cause of its beginning.

Like Darwin's theory of evolution, Big Bang cosmology has undergone that curious social process in which a scientific theory is promoted to a secular myth. The two theories serve as points of certainty in an intellectual culture that is otherwise disposed to give the benefit of the doubt to doubt itself.

The primordial gases accounted for 98 percent of the material in the cloud from which our sun formed (hydrogen made up ca. 72 percent; helium, ca. 27 percent). But many other elements were also present, including carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen (which now account for 1.4 percent of all matter in the universe), and also iron, magnesium, silicon, sulfur, and neon (which account for another 0.5 percent).

the universe may, in fact, be bigger than this, because the notion of inflation suggests that in the first second of its existence, the space-time in which the universe is embedded expanded much faster than the speed of light. If so, the real universe may be billions of billions of times larger than the observable universe.

a tacit cosmology in which the play principle (and by extension, creativity) is itself seen as frightening, while game-like behavior is celebrated as transparent and predictable, and where as a result, the advance of all these rules and regulations is itself experienced as a kind of freedom.

How can anything that exists from eternity have a cause, since that relation implies a priority in time and a beginning of existence?

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?

It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

Take away the Big Bang and what has God done? Burned a bush and got a girl pregnant. Great, he's a high school junior.

We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.

God is not described in equations.

Nothing exists without a cause, the original cause of this universe we call God.

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.