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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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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While quite a bit of Fontenelle sounds matter-of-certainty to us as his discussion of limitless universe‚ his hypothesis on life beyond the Milky way Galaxy and his examination of space travel; we need to recall that distributed his book three centuries back was dangerous business. The thoughts he was bandying about were intense‚ disputable‚ even prohibited. As they had been hardly known to the normal per user before he clarified and scattered them‚ these surprising thoughts abruptly turned into
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Doppler Effect Predicts the Future of Universe Have you ever observed a speeding Car? What do you observe of the Sound it produces? The Sound of the Car increases as it approaches you‚ takes highest peak when close to you‚ and recedes as it speeds away from you! Why do you hear a varying sound level as the car speeds by you? Couldn’t have the sound been at constant level? Wondering what makes the sound behave like that? Sound is a disturbance caused in a particle medium‚ which is propagated
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1) What do we mean by a geocentric universe? Contrast a geocentric view with our modern view of the universe. Geocentric describes the idea that everything revolved around Earth‚ compared to modern knowledge that everything revolves around the Sun (our star). 2) Briefly describe the major levels of structure (such as planet‚ star‚ galaxy) in the universe. Planet: (a) Orbits a star‚ (b) large enough for its own gravity to make it round‚ (c) has cleared most other objects from its orbital
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