** An argument: How old is the universe? This has been a concern for some people over the years... Most of it has to do with the dispute or non acceptance of Genesis 1:1... " Truth is given, not contemplated, but to be. {the truth is it's actual state of existence} Life is an action - not a thought. " F.W. Robertson, - Sermons **

Date:   9/24/2013 9:33:21 AM ( 11 y ago)

In her article, “Why physicists can’t avoid a creation event,”

Grossman explains that “For a while it looked like it might be possible to dodge this problem, by relying on models such as an eternally inflating or cyclic universe, both of which seemed to continue infinitely in the past as well as the future.” These models were consistent with the big bang, she notes. Unfortunately, “as cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin of Tufts University in Boston explained last week, that hope has been gradually fading and may now be dead.”

Here are the models in brief and why they don’t work:

- Eternal inflation:
Built on Alan Guth’s 1981 inflation proposal, this model imagines bubble universes forming and inflating spontaneously forever. Vilenkin and Guth had debunked this idea as recently as 2003. The equations still require a boundary in the past.

- Eternal cycles:
A universe that bounces endlessly from expansion to contraction has a certain appeal to some, but it won’t work either. “Disorder increases with time,” Grossman explained. “So following each cycle, the universe must get more and more disordered.” Logically, then, if there had already been an infinite number of cycles, the universe would already been in a state of maximum disorder, even if the universe gets bigger with each bounce. Scratch that model.

- Eternal egg:
One last holdout was the “cosmic egg” model that has the universe hatching out of some eternally-existing static state. “Late last year Vilenkin and graduate student Audrey Mithani showed that the egg could not have existed forever after all, as quantum instabilities would force it to collapse after a finite amount of time (arxiv.org/abs/1110.4096).” No way could the egg be eternal.

The upshot of this is clear. No model of an eternal universe works!

Vilenkin concluded, “All the evidence we have says that the universe had a beginning.” An editorial at New Scientist called this, “The Genesis Problem.”

Genesis problem?
What problem?
I don’t see a problem.
You got a problem?

- Genesis 1:1 makes perfect sense, just like it always has: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” What’s the problem? The problem is not with Genesis, but with unbelieving man running from the light of God’s revelation for the darkness of their own imagination. The problem is that it keeps taking thousands of years for them to realize their imaginary escape hatches from “In the beginning” do not comport with reality.

Notice that the pro-Darwin, anti-creation forces in the sciences repeatedly attack “intelligent design” as necessarily requiring a supernatural Creator. They ply their talking points endlessly that one cannot talk about “design” without delving into religion, which they love to portray as completely separate, hostile to, and inferior to “science” (their religion).

Well, look here. Some of the greatest of them, gathered together to proudly discuss the “State of the Universe,” cannot escape the obvious. If hostile witnesses DE CLARE the universe had to have a beginning, and that this implies an appeal to religion and the hand of God, then so be it. Now the problem is whether or not they will follow the evidence where it leads and believe in the Creator they have so unscientifically rejected

# posted by Kator @ Sunday, January 15, 2012 0 comments

 

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