Saturday, November 6, 2021

If the Universe had no Beginning

 


 

The theory that the universe had always existed - the Steady State Theory - had been popular because it seemingly eliminated the need for a Creator. However, there are many reasons that it had been decisively overthrown:
 
        It contradicts the present cosmological evidence for Big Bang cosmology.
        It is illogical. It means that time always existed. If so, it would mean that an infinite number of years would have already passed to bring us into present time - an impossibility.
        It is unscientific. Science is predicated on the assumption that effects have causes. An uncaused universe defies science and suggests that everything doesn’t need a causal and scientific explanation because it always existed.
        It defies the law of entropy- the eventual breakdown of everything. Therefore, the universe should have already broken down after an infinite number of years.
        If the universe can be eternal without cause, then any object in it could also be uncaused, another science killer.
        It means that there cannot ever be an adequate explanation for anything, since there will always be a prior cause unto infinity.
        It fails to explain the ubiquitous appearances of design.
        It fails to explain what presently maintains the universe and the immutable laws of science amid the reality of molecules-in-motion.
 
Consequently, there must be a greater Cause, who transcends the universe. Only the Creator can satisfy all these conditions. Only He can be uncaused and eternal and serve as an all-sufficient cause.
 
Well, where did He come from? He alone is the First Cause who existed eternally, without beginning and end.

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