order in the universe to the existence of God. The universe is believed to be ordered towards some end or a certain purpose. It is more reasonable to suggest that the universe was created by an intelligent being to accomplish a purpose rather than it being there by chance (McGrath‚ 2010). The teleological argument has been used to show the existence of God with popular arguments including that of William Paley. Paley used a watch to relate to the order‚ complexity and purpose of the universe. A watch
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is to show that the universe had a beginning in the finite past. The argument battles against the existence of an infinite‚ temporal regress of past events which implies a universe that has infinitely existed. This argument implies the existence of a First Cause. The form of the argument is: 1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. 2. The universe began to exist. 3. Therefore‚ the universe has a cause. Thomistic cosmological argument 1. What we observe in this universe is contingent (i.e. dependent
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Is our universe the only universe? <- first lab link 1. Explain the concept behind the multiverse. The idea that there i more than one universe. This theory could explain multiple phenoinoms. 2. What did astronomer Edwin Hubble discover in 1929? Edwin determained that the further a galaxie is from earth the faster it apears to move away at a ever slowing speed. 3. Explain what the two teams of astronomers found in the 1990s. What question did their discovery create? Hubble’s discovery influenced
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problem of entropy and its effect on humanity is addressed but never has a solution. Time simply starts over again when the universe has died off. The exploitation of one thermal resource after another never turns out to be sustainable in terms of entropy. The question arises of what the point of sustainability of resources is when faced with the ultimate combustion of the universe. Furthermore‚ how would any of the characters in “The Last Question” know what it would mean for sustainability to even
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that dot the skies are moving‚ most of them rapidly away from us. In Chapter 3 of A Brief History of Time‚ Hawking describes the beginning of our universe‚ otherwise known as the big bang‚ and how our universe is expanding. In Chapter 4‚ Hawking explains the dismissal of the idea that future events can be predicted because of the belief that the universe was completely deterministic. As I read chapters 3 and 4‚ I was gripped by the idea of a big bang singularity‚ and immensely perplexed by the reasoning
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first cause of the universe; the being setting the world into motion without doing anything itself. My thesis will postulate that this argument does not necessarily prove God‚ and‚ in fact‚ is rather a large leap of logic – the assumption of God’s existence based on the idea of causation simply seems to be
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have been created by an intelligent Creator. I agree with the latter statement‚ and am writing this to articulate some of the reasons behind why I believe in God. Atheism is sometimes portrayed as being more logical than believing God created the universe‚ but I think that belief in God‚ or Theism‚ is at least equally logical‚ and perhaps more logical than Atheism. I will be presenting three arguments supporting belief in God: the Scientific Argument‚ the Moral Argument‚ and the Practical Argument
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The Big Bang Theory How did the Universe come to be? There are many theories on how the universe began‚ but the most common and scientific is the Big Bang theory. Georges Lemaitre is said to be the first person to formulate the Big Bang theory in 1927. Lemaitre gathered information and ideas from scientists Albert
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The existence of god has been a question that has plagued mankind since people began to think logically. Many philosophers argue that there may or may not be a god‚ or that there may even be different types of gods. It is difficult to say whether or not god can exist because there is a lack of knowledge or limited knowledge regarding the issue. Mankind has only been around for so long and can only know so much. Who knows what we could be possibly be missing in this quest to find the ultimate answer
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Eicher in the Astronomy magazine tries to answer 5 questions about the universe. The first problem is the Big Bang and how did it happen. It is rather difficult to be sure what was there before the Big Bang but it is possible to describe what happened after that. According to Eicher a powerful explosion of space-time sent matter and energy reeling outward into nothingness. At first it took a fracture of a second while the universe kept expanding but during hundreds of thousands of years‚ it has slowed
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