> The theory which claims that the universe began with the Big Bang explosion
> some 20 billion years ago has been taken as proof by some theologians for
> the existence of God as a necessary cause for that explosion in the first
> place, i.e. the argument which is known as the First Cause, Prime Mover, or
> Cosmological Argument. Such theologians argue that the primordial matter
> which the Big Bang erupted from could not have created or caused itself to
> exist from the nothingness of outer space or the universe, unless God by
> means of a miracle caused this to happen.
>
> In ancient, pagan or polytheist Greece, Aristotle came up with the
> philosophical concept of the "uncaused cause," or Supreme Being, as the
> explanation for the origin and cause of the Universe, which centuries later
> the Catholic Scholastic theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas refereed to as "The
> First Cause" or "Prime Mover," i.e. God Himself. Today, with the latest
> discoveries and refinements in the realms of the 11-dimensional String
> Theory, the 4-dimensional Special and General Theories of Relativity,
> Quantum Physics, and Thermodynamics, it is argued that the primordial matter
> out of which the Big Bang erupted from could indeed have been created out of
> the nothingness of outer space, i.e. from Fluctuating Vacuum Energy to use
> the scientific term. Particle accelerator experiments around the world
> everyday prove that matter can be created from energy and vice versa. It is
> also said that time itself began with the Big Bang, and that before the Big
> Bang there was no time, and that it is therefore scientifically and hence
> logically meaningless to speculate about the cause of the Big Bang in the
> first place.
>
> If the oscillating theory or Big Crunch theory for the Universe proves to be
> true, i.e. that there is so much dark matter out there that eventually the
> universe will stop expanding and begin contracting back into the primordial
> matter it originally came from, only to be followed by another Big Bang
> infinitum, one still has to wonder how many Big Bangs and Big Crunches there
> have been so far? If there have been let's say 1 million Big Bangs and Big
> Crunches so far, what was there before the first Big Bang in the series of 1
> million? According to the latest scientific discoveries, the expansion of
> the Universe is currently accelerating due to dark energy, and that the end
> result of this process if it continues forever is a dark, cold, lifeless
> universe many billions of years from now, at least for this Universe, and
> this four-dimensional space-time.
>
> There are estimated to be more than 200 billion billion stars [ i.e. suns ]
> in the Universe, of which our Sun is just a tiny miniscule of a percentage
> of. Many of these distant stars or suns probably have solar systems with
> planets revolving around them, like our own solar system, and many of these
> planets probably have highly advanced, civilized, and intelligent life forms
> like planet earth. Many of these extra-solar planets probably also have had
> histories with multiple comet and asteroid strikes, and also supervolcanic
> eruptions from time to time, followed by periods of mass extinctions of the
> species living there, just like planet Earth has had.
>
> If one day a particle accelerator of sufficient length and power is built,
> the existence of tachyons, i.e. subatomic particles which can travel faster
> than the speed-of-light, or at superluminal speeds in other words, might be
> confirmed. It is speculated that the subatomic particles known as Higgs
> Bosons would indeed turn out to be tachyons if they could be accelerated
> beyond the speed-of-light. The cancelled 1993 SuperConducting Super Collider
> or SSC particle accelerator project in Waxahachie, Texas, U.S.A., with the
> ability to collide subatomic particles to the total energy level of 20
> trillion electron volts, would have confirmed the existence of Higgs Bosons,
> which are speculated to be the basic building blocks of mass, and to be the
> cousins of the so far unconfirmed graviton particle. The largest particle
> accelerator in being built today is the European Union owned Large Hadron
> Collider or LHC in Switzerland, which will only have the ability to
> accelerate subatomic particles to the total energy level of 7 trillion
> electron volts.
>
> Because of the vastness of intergalactic space, some stars [ i.e suns and/or
> solar systems ] and galaxies are so far away from planet Earth that the
> light they send out may take thousands or even millions of years to reach
> us, and in effect are shown as they were in the past. If millions of highly
> intelligent, dominant species from millions of planets have indeed perfected
> the technology of space travel at speeds faster than that of light, by means
> of the use of accelerated Higgs Bosons or Tachyons in other words, they may
> very well have surreptitiously visited and influenced the human species a
> countless number of times in the past. Their ability to hide themselves from
> detection by means of human technology by the use of their own much more
> advanced technology would at this stage be mind boggling for the human
> species. The vehicles used by the Cherubim angels of God to visit the
> prophet Ezekiel, as shown in the Book of Ezekiel chapters 1, 3, and 9 to 10
> [ The New King James Version of the Bible ], do resemble a U.F.O. spacecraft
> in many ways.
>
> If the monotheist God of Judaism, ancient Persian-Iranian-Elamite
> Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Islam exists, one would also have to
> speculate that Jesus Christ may have visited millions of planets for His
> "First" Coming, been crucified, resurrected from the dead, and ascended back
> to Heaven millions of times, and returned for His "Second" Coming millions
> of times. One would also have to speculate that there are millions of
> Satans, along with their following of millions of fallen angels, for
> millions of planets, and that the Archangel Michael has had to do battle
> millions of times, or that he has millions of loyal archangels like him. See
> Revelation 12 : 7 - 10. Of course, if the human species of planet Earth
> survives long enough to develop commercially feasible hydrogen energy and
> the related nuclear fusion technology, along with the ability to design and
> develop spacecraft which can successfully travel faster than the
> speed-of-light or at superluminal speeds by means of accelerated Higgs
> Bosons or Tachyons, then the end of the world prophecies of Jesus Christ,
> Daniel, Isaiah, Joel, Ezekiel, St. Paul, and the New Testament Book of
> Revelation might turn out to be false. If the end of the world prophecies of
> these above mentioned sources proves to be true, then there still might be a
> place for the microgravity or Materials Processing in Space [ MPS ]
> experiments for electronics, metallurgy, pharmaceuticals, and biology on
> board the International Space Station [ ISS ], as well as a place for
> Genesis 1, Pslam 148, Psalm 104, Isaiah 11 : 6 - 9, Ezekiel 47 : 1 - 12,
> Revelation 22 : 1 - 2, Ezekiel 1 : 22, Revelation 4 : 6, Mark 6 : 30 - 56,
> and Revelation 12 : 7 - 10 [ The New King James Version of the Bible ].
>
> As for the energy crisis of the U.S.A., it must be noted that from October
> 1973-March 1974, when the Arab oil embargo was on and when Egypt, Syria,
> Iraq, Libya, and southern Yemen or Yemen Aden were pro-Soviet, some 12%% of
> the oil consumed in the U.S.A. came from the Middle East [ i.e. Turkey,
> Cyprus, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Egypt, Saudi
> Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, The United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen ]. In
> 2004, some 15%% of the oil consumed in the U.S.A. came from the Middle East,
> whereas the figure for China was 55%%, and growing. Today, the biggest
> potential enemies for the U.S.A. are Iran, Syria, China, and Russia. The
> U.S.A. has military bases and spy bases in Greenland, The United Kingdom [
> which itself has bases in Gibraltar and Cyprus ], Germany, Italy, Spain,
> Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Djibouti, the
> British Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, Australia [ Pine Gap ], Guam,
> Kwajalein, Japan, South Korea, Alaska, Hawaii, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The
> sources of U.S. oil outside of the Middle East are the U.S.A., Canada,
> Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia,
> The United Kingdom, Norway, the former republics of the Soviet Union,
> Nigeria, Gabon, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Chad, Sudan, Algeria, and Libya.
> Theoretically speaking, the U.S.A. could be self-sufficient in its oil
> supplies by obtaining oil from its domestic deposits of oil shale rock,
> bituminous tar sands, and coal, but the current technology in obtaining oil
> from these sources is still too expensive compared to the alternatives.
> Although autogas, also known as LPG [ Liquified Petroleum Gas ], LNG [
> Liquified Natural Gas ], and CNG [ Compressed Natural Gas ] is cleaner and
> in some places cheaper than petroleum, natural gas deposits are usually
> found near petroleum deposits, and is therefore ultimately a non-renewable
> fossil fuel.
>
> The concept of predestination in theology oddly has its counterpart in new
> insights concerning studies involving the issue of genetic predispositions
> in family histories ad the case histories of repeat offenders or habitual
> criminals who get caught, as opposed to the highly intelligent sociopaths
> who use Machiavellian intelligence which enables them to usually get away
> with their acts of evil and omissions of good deeds. Of course
> predestination itself is a problematic concept for theologians because God
> is argued to be the one who makes people good, whereas it is Satan who
> tempts people to commit acts of evil, or to avoid committing acts of good.
> In addition, according to I Timothy 2 : 1 - 4, II Peter 3 : 9, Jeremiah 18,
> and II Timothy 3 : 16, God wants everyone to be saved, people can choose
> their destiny, and all of the Bile is inspired by God, and therefore this
> implies that free will exists, although God is presumed to know ahead of
> time what people will choose. With the sciences of heredity or genetics, and
> evolution, the need for the existence of God in order to make people good,
> and the existence of Satan to tempt people into committing acts of evil and
> avoiding acts of good, is rendered unneccessary. It can still be argued that
> religion serves its purpose in keeping many people from following an evil
> way of life by means of the fear produced by eternal damnation, if their
> consciences are not strong enough to make them revolted by the acts of evil,
> and the omissions of evil.
>
> The truthfulness of the Bible has also been called into question with the
> theory of evolution as first brought to large scale attention with Charles
> Darwin, at least as regards a literal interpretation of the Creation story
> as put forth in the Book of Genesis. Also, new archaeological,
> historiographical, paleographical and DNA testing discoveries are
> challenging, modifying, and sometimes even discarding a literal
> interpretation of the Bible quite frequently within academic circles.
>
> Maybe the nihilists are right, and there is no meaning and purpose in the
> universe. Maybe the universe was created out of nothingness, and maybe the
> Fluctuating Vacuum Energy theory, as so often demonstrated in particle
> accelerator experiments, is right. Maybe that nihilistic, absurdist moan of
> despair as uttered by William Shakespeare's character Macbeth that "Life,
> tis a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," is
> correct. Personally, my common sense and gut feeling tells me that this is
> just too absurd and too unscientific to be true, and that energy could not
> have come from a vacuum or nothingness, unless God made this to happen by
> means of the miracle, i.e. by supernatural divine intervention outside of
> the currently known laws of physics, which, ironically, did not apply with
> the primordial ball of energy and matter out of which the Big Bang erupted
> from in the first place. This is what I believe in my hearts of hearts,
> although even I have doubts from time to time, and will probably have so
> while my soul remains in my living body. I however will place my bet on the
> probability that God exists, which for me is a higher probability than God
> not existing.