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.