Author: WordsmithWordsmith Date: May 23, 2007 11:11
On May 22, 11:17 pm, "Raktizer Omheit" iprimus.com.au> wrote:
> 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 ...
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