Hawking believes in a past
eternal universe if you count time that is a spatial dimension before the origin.
Not exact matches
If god can be
eternal, then the
universe can be as well.
Hey, look, what
if a big invisible sky wizard chanted magic spells to make the
universe and then sacrificed himself to himself to appease himself so he doesn't have torture you forever and ever in an
eternal torture pit he made himself even though he claims to love you but won't take five seconds to prove himself beyond doubt like he decided to do with math and chemistry?
If disorder increases with time and the
universe is
eternal then we would be in total disorder at this point.
If these people supposedly have the answers to the
universe and an
eternal afterlife, shouldn't people be flocking in droves?
If you believe that a god can be
eternal then logically so could a
universe.
If God is eternal, then the universe is eternal, even if at some point the universe was composed of only Go
If God is
eternal, then the
universe is
eternal, even
if at some point the universe was composed of only Go
if at some point the
universe was composed of only God.
If you were the creator of a
universe 100 billion light years in diameter, that probably is also multi-dimensional as well as
eternal, would you hang around trying to impress a group of arrogant primates who a milli - second ago were brachiating among the tress of Africa?
Just The Facts, You said: «Not a single thing in the entire
universe can claim
eternal life» So
if this is true, that the
universe is not
eternal, and knowing that nothing can create itself... Doesn't that force you to conclude there is a God?
'' «Not a single thing in the entire
universe can claim
eternal life» So
if this is true, that the
universe is not
eternal, and knowing that nothing can create itself... Doesn't that force you to conclude there is a God?»
So, from your viewpoint, absolutely nothing can be dismissed as the possible start point of the
universe, but
if the
universe is
eternal, it would have no scientific or supernatural start point.
If SOME atheists claimed something once, it may or may not have relevance at some prior time, now or in the future, but your generizations are not useful, ie «The claim of atheism prior to the COBE sattelite and Hubble observations was that the
universe is
eternal.»
Our educational task,
if we accept Whitehead's view of metaphysics, is to assist the student to look on the world or the
universe as a process or organism in which God is at work; to understand how God can be in our midst and yet stand behind the process as
eternal and changeless.
If you can trust the God of the
universe to save your soul from
eternal damnation, you should be able to trust Him while you waiting for a husband or wife.
Frespeech:
If one can believe in an
eternal god, then why can't he believe with equal validity that the building blocks of our
universe are
eternal?
If the fuel of the
universe has been used eternally, that fuel will eventually be depleted; but the evidence is that the cosmological gas gauge, while moving toward «empty,» is yet a long way from being there — a condition incompatible with an
eternal universe.
And
if the
universe were always inflating, and always expanding, would that imply that the
universe itself was
eternal and had no beginning?
And
if this idea of
eternal inflation producing an infinite number of
universes is right, those infinite number of
universes could each have a different one of these 10500 vacua, so all of them would exist.