Posted on 04/26/2016 4:36:36 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
“Science may come up with explanations for the Big Bang involving multiverses etc.”
Any explanation that invokes “multiverses” is, by definition, not science.
“The cosmos may be more than the visible universe, so deepening scientific understanding may happen but will not necessarily disprove an ultimate Creator, but just push the issue out further than the creation of the visible universe.”
Science can never speak about anything other than the observable universe, for anything beyond is outside of the reach of the scientific method and the set boundaries of natural science. Those who would try to force science to address such matters confuse science with philosophy (if you want to be charitable, it would be less charitable, but perhaps more accurate to call it “tautology”).
The real question I’d like to hear one of those geniuses answer is whether or not my watch would stop working if I were to go back prior to the big bang to where time didn’t exist....
LOL, well if time doesn’t exist, then change is impossible in the physical world, and whatever state the universe (or lack thereof) was in, it would just continue to be in that state.
That is, unless there was intervention by some outside entity that is not bound by time or physical laws....
Maybe your watch wouldn’t exist nor you to observe it.
Svetlana Stalin, Josef Stalin’s daughter, on a BBC documentary about her God-hating father. She recounted his last act of defiant rebellion against the Creator: “[A]s Stalin lay dying, plagued with terrifying hallucinations, he suddenly sat halfway up in bed, clenched his fist toward the heavens once more, fell back upon his pillow, and was dead.”
“[H]is one last gesture,” observed Zacharias, “was a clenched fist toward God, his heart as cold and hard as steel.”
This perfectly follows the description of an atheist according to one Pentecostal minister.
An atheist may appear to intellectual not accept the existence of God.
Deep down, though, the atheist is shaking his fist defiantly toward Heaven, screaming “No, God!”
Reverend Richard Wurmbrand had speculated that the Communists, going back to Karl Marx, were influenced by the occult, which would then explain the rebellion against God.
And God said:
(Maxwell’s equations of electromagnetism)
And there was light.
I am a Christian, and I remember reading an article in the NYT Magazine nearly 40 years ago about the challenge the Big Bang posed to materialist scientists.
Personally, I would far rather have a steady state universe, with stars appearing out of nowhere, sustained creation, but that theory seems to have fallen, and the eventual fate of the universe under the Big Bang theory is not comforting - enough matter for contraction and rebirth? Reincarnation? Or not enough matter- entropy, heat death?
My consolation is to leave it in God’s hands.
Very well met.
Who is the poet?
Great read. Love Ravi.
Catherine Faber - the title is ‘The Word of God’
There is a lot we don’t currently understand about the Big Bang and the universe, for instance the possibility of additional dimensions beyond the four we see, for example. Why dismiss a priori that science through its methods might enable us to understand more of these matters? What Newtonian physicist would have believed Einstein’s theory of relativity or the Heisenberg uncertainty principle? Faith and science are not contradictory, so I feel no qualms if science were to expand our concept of the Cosmos even further beyond the Big Bang.
“Why dismiss a priori that science through its methods might enable us to understand more of these matters?”
Because it is, by definition, not science. Computer models speculating about unobservable and untestable conditions do not constitute science, because they can never be confirmed of falsified.
“What Newtonian physicist would have believed Einstein’s theory of relativity or the Heisenberg uncertainty principle?”
That’s irrelevant, because Einstein follow the scientific method, so any scientist who objected to his theories would be easily shown to be in error. Big bang theorists do not follow the scientific method, therefore, they can never silence the criticism.
“Yes, with time and chance, even science may eventually catch up to God’s Word.”
Too many in “science” and supporters of said field cannot hear or see the proof in front of them as they strive to adjust their lies while the proofs of their lies unfold. Many of these people I truly love and fear for.
Liars lie, as the heirs of their father, the Father of Lies, fists clenched while they proudly and willingly march into Hell. With kindness and love, many can be won over to the Truth, and that is our assignment.
Thanks a lot. Great stuff, it and your post.
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