RE: Creationism
August 22, 2020 at 8:00 am
(This post was last modified: August 22, 2020 at 8:07 am by Belacqua.)
(August 22, 2020 at 5:35 am)Fake Messiah Wrote:Quote:the universe started at a finite, and not very distant, time in the past. One argument for such a beginning was the feeling that it was necessary to have “First Cause” to explain the existence of the universe.
As has been discussed, the Thomist first cause is not like this. It is not a beginning in this sense.
Quote:he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe.
People say the same about the Big Bang. That it's nonsense to talk about "before" the Big Bang, because time didn't exist yet. I don't know if that's true, but it's interesting that Augustine came up with the idea first.
Quote:But in 1929, Edwin Hubble made the landmark observation that wherever you look, distant galaxies are moving rapidly away from us.
The Reverend Monsignor Georges Lemaître published this observation two years earlier. Hubble confirmed it and calculated it more accurately.
"In 1927, two years before Hubble published his own article, the Belgian priest and astronomer Georges Lemaître was the first to publish research deriving what is now known as Hubble's law."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law
Quote:[Lemaître] was the first to identify that the recession of nearby galaxies can be explained by a theory of an expanding universe,[3] which was observationally confirmed soon afterwards by Edwin Hubble.[4][5] He was the first to derive what used to be known as "Hubble's law", but since 2018 has officially been renamed the Hubble–Lemaître law,[6][7] and made the first estimation of what is still called the Hubble constant, which he published in 1927, two years before Hubble's article.[8][9][10][11] Lemaître also proposed what later became known as the "Big Bang theory" of the origin of the universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Lemaître