RE: Matter and energy can be past-eternal
June 30, 2017 at 4:52 pm
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2017 at 4:53 pm by Alex K.)
It'a the same with the Borde Guth Vilenkin theorem which people like William Lane Craig always like to abuse. It's a beautiful theorem because it works with very simple assumptions, and when those are met (a permanent inflationary expansion of space) you hit "walls" when going back in time in a particular way. This has been used by apologists to claim that this is "proof that the universe must have a beginning". But all it is, is proof that in the past there must be regions of space which did not expand in this manner. Nor does it really tell us that there is nothing before that.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition