[bkopto]

"Eliminating the singularity or Big Bang brings back the bouncing Universe on to the theoretical stage of cosmology. The absence of a singularity at the start of spacetime opens up the possibility that vestiges of a previous contraction phase may have withstood the phase change and may still be with us in the ongoing expansion of the Universe," Neves said.

The notion of God and His creation must be eliminated at all costs.

[Blue House Sue]

‘The notion of God and His creation must be eliminated at all costs.’

No, it is just the opposite.

We know God has existed forever, and we know this phase of the universe has not existed forever.

God contracted the previous phases of the universe and will contract this universe.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

This has nothing to do with trying to eliminate God.

The fact that there is something rather than nothing, and that this something is unimaginably ordered strongly suggests that there is a God.

I believe this has more to do with why matter clumped into galaxies rather than be evenly distributed throughout space. If the previous universe left and imprint on ours then that might explain the clumpiness.

[Wuli]

“The notion of God and His creation must be eliminated at all costs.”

Not at all. G-d can be behind a “bouncing” universe as easily as a big-bang universe; once one accepts that in the beginning - of “this” universe, or the previous/next one in the previous/next “bounce” - there was “nothing” and then there was light. Unless you’re going with the creationists “young earth” theories.

[backwoods-engineer]

That’s what this is all about, yes, eliminating God. What a failure.