(July 6, 2012 at 2:12 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: What you guys aren't realizing is that the premise that use to be disputed is "the universe began to exist". Atheists long before scientific evidence came up, would state the universe is eternal.
Now we have scientific evidence that the universe has a beginning. So this argument is becoming potent again. In fact, big bang theory didn't dismiss universe being eternal. However, right now, scientists are concluding that the universe must have had beginning or there wouldn't be planets, suns, etc.. it would be total darkness. That is if you say there is an infinite past.
Something needs to be eternal.
well, we technically don't have "evidence". (Hubble is doing cartwheels in his grave). We have a scientific theory that explains what we're observing around us. There are many unanswered questions about the big bang model. It is by far the most plausible explanation, but we don't have scientific evidence.
If anything needs to be eternal, you would have to give it the least amount of properties in form of assumptions. Quantum foam is likely the one thing that is eternal.
