(October 17, 2012 at 5:30 pm)Reasonable_Jeff Wrote: It seems to me that the Borde, Guth, Vilenkin theorm does imply an absolute beginning of the universe.Mister Agenda covered this one off nicely; their theory only covers the 'expansion' period of what we understand to be the current state of the universe. It can make no definitive statements about how the expansion started or what might have existed before the expansion as there is limited data. I'm simply pointing out why WLC's extrapolation from the theory is unfounded oversimplification.
Teaearlgreyhot also made the follow-on point: there's no factual connection between the statement 'the universe had a beginning' and '...therefore the Christian God'.
Sum ergo sum
