Posted on 07/18/2013 10:36:09 AM PDT by kimtom
According to the First Law of Thermodynamics, nothing in the Universe (i.e., matter or energy) can pop into existence from nothing (see Miller, 2013). All of the scientific evidence points to that conclusion. So, the Universe could not have popped into existence before the alleged “big bang” (an event which we do not endorse). Therefore, God must have created the Universe.
One of the popular rebuttals by the atheistic community is that quantum mechanics could have created the Universe. In 1905, Albert Einstein proposed the idea of mass-energy equivalence, resulting in the famous equation, E = mc2 (1905). We now know that matter can be converted to energy, and vice versa. However, energy and mass are conserved, in keeping with the First Law. In the words of the famous evolutionary astronomer, Robert Jastrow, “[T]he principle of the conservation of matter and energy…states that matter and energy can be neither created nor destroyed. Matter can be converted into energy, and vice versa, but the total amount of all matter and energy in the Universe must remain unchanged forever” (1977, p. 32). The idea of matter-energy conversion led one physicist to postulate, in essence, that the cosmic egg that exploded billions of years ago in the alleged “big bang”—commencing the “creation” of the Universe—could have come into existence as an energy-to-matter conversion.
In 1973, physicist Edward Tryon of the Hunter College of the City University of New York published a paper in the British science journal Nature titled, “Is the Universe a Vacuum Fluctuation?” He proposed the idea that the Universe could be a large scale ........
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It’s turtles...all the way down.
dead or alive?
Comes from raising two physicists who are into astrophysics.
Leads to some interesting dinnertime conversations.
I both am and am not a genius, as long as you don’t look in the box.
Yes.
God created Quantum Mechanics and all of the rest of the components that make up the Big Bang. His hand and his plan are not limited to the simplified interpretation and timeline of creation that emerged from the minds of men.
“A particle of matter and a particle of anti-matter can collide and result in nothing.”
Not quite, when the two meet there is a conversion of the masses into pure energy which could take part in the creation of new particles. Those particles are composed of packaged energy waves so in reality they do not come from nothing and decay into nothing. Energy is an entity, possibly a manifestation of the hand of God.
I didn’t know that. Wrecks my theory. Thanks.
The ultimate bigot is a scientist who rejects any thought but that which he considers scientific. His definition of science is what he chooses it to be. All thouight is scientific. What remains is to have a conversation. Excluding some thought because it does not meet your subjective standards is unscientific. Your very claim to the exclusivity of the scientific method is incompatible with the scientific method.
“..It’s turtles..”
what no elephants???
Sorry, no elephants. Only turtles, and cats.
You can stop reading right there. "We can't explain it, so it must be God".
Cue the picture of the wild haired guy saying, "Aliens".
Depends on how one defines God, Junior. If God is infinite beyond space and time, eternal beyond all creation, has no beginning and no end, then, yes, at the end of all creation is God.
I peeked; you’re a genius.
In that case what is space?
Space is the absence of time and energy.
Like Topsy, it just growed?
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