| Judson McClendon 2005-12-18, 3:55 am |
| "Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com> wrote:
>
> I think the general belief (among believers of the Big Bang theory
> anyway), is that there is indeed no "before" the Big Bang. Space and time
> are linked in that there cannot exist time without space. And space did
> not exist before the Big Bang, so there was not anything there to be
> "destroyed" by the Big Bang.
>
> The "Big Bang" is not actually an explosion in the intuitive sense of
> the word. It is the rapid expansion of space itself, as opposed to the
> rapid expansion of matter within space.
As usual, good explanation, Oliver.
Believing that nothing just expanded into everything seems far less
reasonable to me than believing that God created everything. This universe,
as far as we know, is entirely causative. How or why would a causative
universe form from nothing, i.e. no cause? Why should we even imagine or
suspect, let alone subscribe to, no causality? With God as First Cause, this
is not an issue. Neither is beginning, for there was no "beginning", God
just was. After all we just 'are', or the Big Bang just 'was', what reason
to think God wasn't? I see absolutely no logical justification for such
assumptions, which fly directly in the face of all human experience in this
causative universe. :-)
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"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that
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