We conclude considering Paul Davies’ statements about cosmology and the Bible. We now also conclude a side tracking segment regarding a Q&A session from Yahoo! Answers and get to that which Paul Davies himself believes about cosmology and cosmogony. Find this whole series here.
Here is another answer:
Science hasn’t settled on rather it is a random fluctuation in equilibrium with anti-matter someplace else, or if the energy that makes it up is eternal. So you can’t really make any statement about what is or isn’t in line.
What has science settled? This is an important point to always keep in mind: while science may be about ascertaining the empirical, ultimate or absolute truth, scientific conclusions only tells us out best guess thus far. So, perhaps “Science hasn’t settled on rather [whether?] it is a random fluctuation in equilibrium with anti-matter someplace else” but, as per the first law of thermodynamics (which the Bible predicts—see The First Commandment of Thermodynamics) science does conclude that energy (here meaning within the time / space / matter continuum “energy”) is not eternal.
Here is another answer:
that is so impossible to be from nothing there has to be something before to have something after.
no history no future
FYI: this is a “sic” situation. This is a good point, even if one is not certain in which direction the answerer is going. “Nothing comes from nothing” (Julie Andrews) therefore, the universe had a cause and this cause is what we call God.
Here is another answer:
the word create means to make out of nothing
Yes, that is the entirety of the answer and it make good point: “create” within this context, “means to make out of nothing” (time / space / matter continuum “nothing”).
Additionally, there were only two more answers—with which we will not deal—one was:
My internet is too slow, it won’t let me load youtube videos. But the comments seem to indicate thoughtful debate. I wish I could see it and add my input.
This was in reference to a lecture to which “dead fundie” had referred and so the input is that not input can be inputted.
The other answer was:
Ted Bundy was crazy and hot.
Alrighty then!
Note that the late Prof. Robert Jastrow was the Chief of the Theoretical Division of NASA and Founder/Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute; Professor of Geophysics at Columbia University; Professor of Space Studies-Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College—and an agnostic. In his book God and the Astronomers, he wrote:
Theologians generally are delighted with the proof that the Universe had a beginning, but astronomers are curiously upset…
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….
the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same, the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.”
Co-discoverer of the cosmic background radiation, Arno Penzias (in The New York Times), notes,
The best data we have (concerning the big bang) are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.
But what are Paul Davies’—the erudite elucidator of cosmology and biblical [mis]interpretation—own views?
He believes that, “in some sense the universe knew we were coming” and that it was “made for people.” He believes that it was made for people because we people, “made the laws. And he believes that we made the laws (by influencing the past) because, “We in fact create reality” (for details see Carl Wieland’s, A new age of quantum madness).
So now, what of that which we are told ex Biblico of the universe’s coming into being? Well, that has been covered in the essay Does the Bible state that God created the universe?, to which the interested read is directed.
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