In 1927, Georges
Lemaître (a priest) proposed the greatest cosmological theory of the last
century: The Big Bang Theory. There have been numerous confirmations that
the Big Bang Theory is true, such as the expansion of the universe and the
cosmic microwave background radiation. This
theory has caused a lot of heartburn to the scientific community, since it says
that the universe had a beginning.
Atheists do not want the universe to have a beginning because this
requires an external agent to cause the change in state and they know what the
implications are. Since the Big Bang
Theory was first proposed, atheist scientists have desperately tried to
disprove that the universe had a beginning, but unfortunately for them, one
cannot disprove the creator of science by using the science he created.
There have been many additional theories that have been
proposed that attempt to incorporate the Big Bang Theory and an eternal
universe in order to avoid a beginning. They
have all failed. The nail was once again
put into the coffin in 2003 by a theorem developed by Arvind Borde, Alan Guth, and Alexander Vilenkin
known as the Borde, Guth, and Vilenkin (BGV) Theorem. What they discovered is that any universe
that is on average expanding cannot have an infinite past; there is a past
boundary. This rules out all models that
try to avoid a cosmic beginning. Here is the link to their paper and here is a video of Vilenkin explaining the theory. Here is a quote from the paper.
“Our argument shows that null and timelike geodesics are, in
general, past-incomplete in inflationary models, whether or not energy
conditions hold, provided only that the averaged expansion condition Hav > 0
holds along these past-directed geodesics. This is a stronger conclusion than
the one arrived at in previous work in that we have shown under reasonable assumptions
that almost all causal geodesics, when extended to the past of an arbitrary
point, reach the boundary of the inflating region of spacetime in a finite
proper time (finite affine length, in the null case).”
What this is saying is that the only condition that needs to
be present to show that ANY universe has a finite past boundary (a beginning)
is that it must have an average state of expansion. This applies to our universe or the
multi-verse (if you have faith in such a thing). There is no doubt in the scientific community
that our universe is expanding. This was
discovered by Edwin Hubble in 1929 by looking at the red shift of distant
galaxies and repeatedly confirmed. Since
then we have discovered that not only is our universe expanding, but the
expansion rate is also accelerating.
“It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable
men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. With the proof now in place, cosmologists can
no longer hide behind the possibility of a past-eternal universe. There is no escape, they have to face the
problem of a cosmic beginning.” – Alexander Vilenkin
Yet atheist scientists still have trouble admitting that the
universe had a beginning and have proposed all kinds of nonsensical,
non-falsifiable, faith-based theories to show that the beginning of the
universe had a natural cause. By refusing
to follow the evidence, they are saying “Anything, but not God”.
“At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the
curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his
faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled
the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he
pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have
been sitting there for centuries.” - Robert
Jastrow, God and the Astronomers (1978)
Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the
heavens and the earth.
Good luck to all who try to disprove this.
