What is The Evidence for a Beginning and what
are the Implications for Creation?
The
arguments that suggest the finitude of past time (i.e. that time
had a beginning) are basically of two types: (a) arguments about
the possible geometries of spacetime and (b) arguments based on the Second
Law of Thermodynamics (entropy). Though the arguments we shall give
may conceivably have loopholes, in the sense that cosmological models or scenarios
may be found in the future to which these arguments don’t apply, their
persistence and applicability to a large number of existing cosmological models
gives them respectable probative force. Until such time as they are shown to be
invalid or inapplicable to empirically verifiable characteristics of our
universe, they should be considered as justifying the conclusion that it
is at least probable that the universe had a beginning.
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