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Why is there SOMEthing and not NOthing?

It was a difficult decision to try and figure out where to begin this series, but ultimately I decided to begin at the beginning! It seems like a natural "jumping off point" and after all, if we can't trust Genesis 1:1, well what can we trust?

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. This is how the Bible begins, and this one verse is under as much attack as any other single verse in the Bible. Many have gone to great lengths to refute a created universe. It is a doctrine that is not just disdained or disliked but hated with a great passion by the secular world.

Modern science has been said to disprove a created universe through the acceptance of the "Big Bang" Theory of Cosmology. From Wikipedia: "The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model that describes the early development of the Universe. According to the theory, the Big Bang occurred approximately 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe. At this time, the Universe was in an extremely hot and dense state and began expanding rapidly."

What is not clear from this explanation is where this "extremely hot and dense state" of the universe came from and why did it begin "expanding rapidly"? Even granting the time-scales proposed by the theory, these are fundamental questions that secular science cannot answer. In science there are "laws" or fundamental principles that have never been observed to be untrue. Let's discuss a few of them.

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1.  The law of causality: Simply: In nature, everything has a sufficient cause.

2. The first law of thermodynamics: In nature, energy can neither be created nor destroyed. This means that the total amount of energy in the universe remains constant.

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3. The second law of thermodynamics: In an isolated system (here, the natural universe,) entropy (simply put: disorder) of an isolated system never decreases, because isolated systems spontaneously evolve toward thermodynamic equilibrium—the state of maximum entropy (also known as heat death). Another way of saying this is that in an isolated system, disorder increases while usable energy decreases. (If you've ever gone a few days without cleaning your kitchen you know exactly what I'm talking about.)

Now, we return to our Big Bang Theory of Cosmology. According to The Law of Causality, a "Big Bang" requires a "Big Banger". According to the The Law of Causality coupled with First Law of Thermodynamics the "extremely hot dense state" of the early universe did not spontaneously generate itself, and according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics it did not exist eternally in the past; otherwise a state of thermodynamic equilibrium, (heat death) would have occurred before the "Big Bang" ever banged.

Another scientific theory, the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorum, proves that any universe which has, on average, been expanding throughout its history (a byproduct of the Big Bang) cannot be infinite in the past but must have a past space-time boundary (an absolute beginning).
So, according to the prevailing science of the day, the Big Bang is the beginning of the universe. Put another way, all energy (including matter), space and time began at the Big Bang. Now remember, these things had to have a sufficient cause. That cause had to exist outside of physical matter, space and time. By definition that would make the cause spaceless, timeless, immaterial, uncaused, and unimaginably powerful. The God of the Bible fits the bill quite nicely, don't you think?

Please note that I am not a proponent of the Big Bang theory of cosmology, for many reasons that I will try to develop in a subsequent post. My purpose here is to show that even the leading secular cosmology that explains the beginning of all things needs help to make a coherent narrative. Also note that I realize I have not yet made a case for the God of the Christian faith. I will develop that discussion in subsequent articles.

Thank you for taking the time to read my article. For more information on how I keep my worldview informed please go to http://crossroadspbc.org/

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