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« on: March 14, 2006, 07:29:19 PM »

I was reading a forum a moment ago and thought since the christians here have the idea that everthing has creator.  I began to think, Who is God(S) creator?  This question is aimed at theist who keep up with God made the universe idea.
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« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2006, 08:28:40 PM »

"I was reading a forum a moment ago and thought since the christians here have the idea that everthing has creator. I began to think, Who is God(S) creator? This question is aimed at theist who keep up with God made the universe idea."

That's really not what Christians think.  Please see the "Why I don't buy a creator" by B. Stewart.
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« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2006, 10:46:00 PM »

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I was reading a forum a moment ago and thought since the christians here have the idea that everthing has creator. I began to think, Who is God(S) creator? This question is aimed at theist who keep up with God made the universe idea.


Just like they say back home..."AS IF"...lol!!  As if you you "began"....

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« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2006, 07:10:49 PM »

John: Is it what you think, though?
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"One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment." (ibid.)
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« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2006, 07:15:31 PM »

"since the christians here have the idea that everthing has creator"

Definately do not think that.
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« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2006, 09:50:47 AM »

You believe the universe has a creator, right?
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« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2006, 10:25:28 AM »

This subject has been previously covered before in a earlier discussion on question, "Who made God?"

Who made God? No one did. He was not made. He has always existed. Only things that had a beginning-like the world- need a maker. God had no beginning, so God did not need to be made.

If the universe is not eternal, it needs a cause. On the other hand, if it has no beginning, it does not need a cause of its beginning. Likewise, if a God exists who has no beginning, it is absurd to ask, "Who made God?" It is a category mistake to ask, "Who made the Unmade?" or "Who created the Uncreated?" One may as well ask, "Where is the bachelor's wife?"
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« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2006, 10:28:44 AM »

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"Who made the Unmade?"

Point proven god does not exist. :smt072
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« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2006, 10:37:35 AM »

If the universe is not eternal, it needs a cause.

According to the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is running out of usable energy. But if the universe is running down, it cannot be eternal. Otherwise, it would have run down completely by now. While you can never run out of a limited amount of energy, it does not take forever to run out of a limited amount of energy. Hence, the universe must have had a beginning.

The universe had a beginning. And whatever had a beginning must have had a beginner. Therefore, the universe must have had a designer (God).

Only things that had a beginning-like the world- need a maker. God had no beginning, so God did not need to be made
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« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2006, 11:43:18 AM »

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If the universe is not eternal, it needs a cause.

According to the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is running out of usable energy. But if the universe is running down, it cannot be eternal. Otherwise, it would have run down completely by now. While you can never run out of a limited amount of energy, it does not take forever to run out of a limited amount of energy. Hence, the universe must have had a beginning.

The universe had a beginning. And whatever had a beginning must have had a beginner. Therefore, the universe must have had a designer (God).


First of all, it is false that "if the universe is running down, it cannot be eternal."  When will it ever stop running down?

Matt, you know better than that.  This subject has been discussed here many times, and you are committing an elementary equivocation on the word "universe" that has been pointed out before.  The word "universe" can refer to either the sum total of all things that exist or just everything that we can detect.  What we can detect is a post-inflation "universe".  That does not mean that physical reality itself began with the so-called Big Bang.

Some scientists now think that inflation took place in a trillion trillionth of a second.  The universe expanded to roughly its present dimensions (i.e. far beyond what we can directly observe) from roughly the size of a marble.  Nobody knows whether the marble just always existed or it came from "somewhere else".  Perhaps it was just God playing with his marbles.  That's as good as any creation myth. ;-)
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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2006, 12:42:05 PM »

The universe had a beginning, and evidence that suggests this notion can be seen in the second law of thermodynamics, the expansion of the universe, radiation from the Big Bang, great galaxy seeds, and Einstein's theory of relativity.

The second law of thermodynamics says that the universe is running out of usable energy. One day the universe will simply run out of gas. If the universe had been running on its own energy from eternity, it would have been out of energy by now. But it has not, and so the universe must have begun in the distant (but not eternal) past. The universe, then, is not eternal but had a beginning.

In addition, in 1927, Edwin Hubble discovered that the light from distant galaxies was redder than it should be. Hubble concluded that it was redder because the universe was growing apart- in short, expanding! The light from the galaxies was changing because it was moving away from us. Furthermore, he found that the light was expanding in all directions, which means that it all came from a single point. There once was nothing, and then all of a sudden, there was something- the universe suddenly came into being in what is known today as the "Big Bang". There was no time, space, or matter before the Big Bang, but all came into existence at that moment.

In 1965, two Bell telephone Laboratory scientists discovered the radiation afterglow from the Big Bang. The light from the Big Bang is no longer visible, but the heat can still be detected. In 1948, scientists predicted that this radiation would exist if the Big Bang really did occur, and nearly twenty years later, it was discovered. This discovery confirmed that the universe is not eternal but had a beginning.

If the Big Bang had occurred, then scientists believed that we would see ripples in the temperature of the radiation discovered. In 1992, NASA's COBE satellite not only discovered the necessary ripples, but also found that the explosion and expansion of the universe were so precise that they allowed galaxy formation.

In 1916, Albert Einstein's calculations of his theory of general relativity revealed a definite beginning to all time, all matter, and all space.

In my response to "AtheistHeratic", I was trying to clarify that if the universe had a beginning then God would not need a cause, because only things that have a beginning need a cause.

Are you referring to the vacuum fluctuation models or the chaotic inflationary models when you refer to inflation and the universe in the same respect?
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2006, 01:56:05 PM »

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The universe had a beginning...

In my response to "AtheistHeratic", I was trying to clarify that if the universe had a beginning then God would not need a cause, because only things that have a beginning need a cause.


Matt, I accused you of equivocation.  Instead of responding to that accusation, you simply repeated the equivocation.  Here are the two senses of "universe":

1)  UNIVERSE1 = Physical Reality or All That Exists
2)  UNIVERSE2 = Detectable Reality or All That Exists in our Slice of UNIVERSE1

You are only talking UNIVERSE2, not UNIVERSE1.  Physicists do not claim that UNIVERSE1 had a beginning point, only UNIVERSE2.  Your point to AtheistHeratic implies that physicists claim UNIVERSE1 had a beginning.  That is false.  There is no more reason to suspect that an intelligent agency caused UNIVERSE2 to "begin" than there is reason to suspect that an intelligent agent is necessary to explain the transfer of kinetic energy between two billiard balls that collide with each other.  The only difference is that we can only see the behavior of one of the billiard balls (UNIVERSE2, metaphorically speaking).  Do you get my point?
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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2006, 03:42:54 PM »

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« Reply #13 on: March 26, 2006, 07:52:29 AM »

OK, Matt.  Thanks for trying, anyway.  You just don't get the distinction.  I think that some of your theist cohorts do, but you are intent out of turning the Big Bang into some kind of evidence for an ancient creation myth dreamed up by people who had a completely different understanding of the universe than modern cosmologists do.  Both you and Lederman gloss over the fact that physical matter did exist prior to inflation, not a void or "vacuum".  Since, as Lederman admits, we have "no data" regarding what preceded the Big Bang, he has no license to assume anything at all about it.  Just the same, he does.
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« Reply #14 on: March 26, 2006, 08:58:20 AM »

To be fair, though Cop, you have to admit that in terms of facts on the ground, its only def #2 that we have any knowledge of.  You don't know that def #2 is not identical with def #1.  How do you know its not?
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« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2006, 04:13:21 PM »

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but you are intent out of turning the Big Bang into some kind of evidence for an ancient creation myth dreamed up by people who had a completely different understanding of the universe than modern cosmologists do.


Why is there something rather than nothing then, which has not yet been successfully explained by physical processes?

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Both you and Lederman gloss over the fact that physical matter did exist prior to inflation, not a void or "vacuum".


Are you referring to the dense ball of physical matter, the initial singularity (t=o), when you say that "physical matter did exist prior to inflation?"



The cosmological singularity, from which the universe sprang, marked the beginning, not only of all matter and energy in the universe, but of physical space and time themselves.

We can address this subject in another post. However, I was just answering "AtheistHeratics" reply on "Who Made God?"
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« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2006, 04:34:35 PM »

I'm done reading everbodys post, but here goes:
First most unimportantly, Thanks to matt I finnally learned how to do pictures.

Second more important, My own theory on the universe is that it has always been here and allways be here.  Just the universe may  look different at diferent time.

Third, less important than the first,  I've put my two cents in. [biggrin
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« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2006, 07:02:29 PM »

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Second more important, My own theory on the universe is that it has always been here and allways be here. Just the universe may look different at diferent time.


I'm glad I taught you how to draw pictures; however, how did you come to that conclusion when almost everyone and especially Stephen Hawking admit that the universe began a finite time ago (15 billion years ago). There is much evidence that supports this including the expansion of the universe and the radiation of heat that was detected from the Big Bang.
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« Reply #18 on: March 28, 2006, 09:49:54 AM »

either matter has existed in some form for eternity and will exist in some form for eternity, or God exists. My money's on the simpler explanation - matter.
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« Reply #19 on: March 28, 2006, 04:12:45 PM »

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either matter has existed in some form for eternity and will exist in some form for eternity, or God exists. My money's on the simpler explanation - matter.


The idea that matter has existed since the beginning of time has been overthrown by the Big Bang theory which shows that the universe was created from nothingness.
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