RE: Arguments against existence of God.
December 5, 2018 at 9:47 am
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2018 at 9:48 am by Jehanne.)
(December 5, 2018 at 8:33 am)Cherub786 Wrote:(December 5, 2018 at 8:24 am)Jehanne Wrote: I have no idea who your sources are; if you are alluding to the BGV theorem, here it is:
Inflationary spacetimes are not past-complete
I have read the paper (it's only 4 pages); the authors call for "new physics" and not belief in some supernatural agency.
Vilenkin's paper was also posted here and I read it too.
Obviously the paper doesn't say a supernatural agency created the universe. But do you at least agree that the universe came from nothing?
Btw, Vilenkin's proposal as outlined in Creation of Universes from Nothing dispenses with the big bang model.
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 have read Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: With Modern Applications in Cosmology by Øyvind Grøn and Sigbjorn Hervik:
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity: With Modern Applications in Cosmology
as well as a number of other undergraduate texts in physics. It is universally agreed among professional physicists that General Relativity is an excellent model of universal gravitation, but it is also universally agreed that GR is incomplete, and that no physical model, at present, describes the Universe at its earliest moments.
And, so, physicists simply do not know. Professor Sean Carroll was absolutely correct when he pointed out to WLC that the Universe may have had a beginning or that it may be eternal.
No one knows for sure. You can posit "god" if you wish, just as you can ascribe planetary motion to angelic or other invisible beings.
P.S. The negative reviews on Amazon are due to the print quality and not the text, so typical of some negative reviews on Amazon!