To: Neocon who wrote (51409 ) 6/3/1999 1:38:00 AM From: Bob Lao-Tse Read Replies (3) | Respond to
Well, you don't exactly invite my unbiased perusal with "if you can stand it," but..."Nothing can come from nothing." "The Big Bang Theory points to a discrete moment when the universe began existence." our universe began existence. The theory also hinges on the ideas of conservation of mass and of energy, and of expansion and contraction. The current theory seems to be that once our current universe has reached the limits of its expansion, it will begin to contract until it is a single mass of matter. However, that single mass will contain all of the matter and all of the energy that has ever existed in our universe. The resultant stresses will be too great and there will be another "Big Bang," resulting in a new universe-- a universe composed of the matter and energy in our own universe, but reordered. Therefore the matter and energy is eternal, regardless of the duration of its arrangement into the universe that we know."...that which has eternal existence outside of time and space we call "God"..." void . But the belief that there indeed is something outside of time and space is just that, a belief. As I've expressed already, we don't know whether the universe that we inhabit is indeed infinite and eternal, or in some manner contained. If it is indeed eternal and infinite, then there is nothing outside of it, there is no beginning as we understand it and thus no need for a creator. If it is not eternal and infinite, and there is indeed something outside of our universe, there is no particular reason to consider that something to be God. It could just as easily be (with a nod to Stephen Hawking) typewriters.
