(December 5, 2018 at 9:54 am)Cherub786 Wrote:(December 5, 2018 at 9:47 am)Jehanne Wrote: Professor Vilenkin is one of at least several hundred cosmologists in the World today who are actively publishing, which means that you are cherry-picking your sources, having already settled upon an "answer" you are now in the process of asking "questions".
I'm not cherry picking, only pointing to the general consensus among these contemporary cosmologists that the universe is finite and has a beginning. Very few credible scientists say the universe is infinite and doesn't have a beginning. Some scientists even say the universe has an end and propose the big crunch model.
Our theology of creatio ex nihilo is a radical thought and break from all the classical philosophy and religion before the advent of modern physics and Einstein's theory of general relativity and the proof that spacetime has a curve. The eternality and infiniteness of the universe is dependent on the model of it being absolutely flat. So our medieval theology insofar as the universe being finite and having a beginning and coming out of nothing has been largely confirmed by 20th century physics which is quite amazing.
Most cosmologists are atheist:
Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists