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Originally Posted by bns  The universe is what I know. It doesn't make sense (that is, it doesn't make sense to me, I'm not saying it's irrational) that it existed forever. A God, on the other hand is outside this realm and has his/her/its own rules and is therefore welcome to exist forever if he likes. |
It sure is an uncanny feeling to try and imaging a universe that existed forever, or worse yet one where
time itself began at the big bang, or where there's a multiverse, etc, or the other cosmological theories. That's what makes it so interesting to think about -- the very fact that we can't comprehend anything outside of our linear sort of existing.
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Originally Posted by bns The universe is not in a state of total chaos. That means that at some point in the past the universe had lots of order.
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Aside: The law of entropy -- like all scientific laws -- was proposed to try to explain what we observe around us. That does not mean that it is set in stone or that it must hold everywhere and always. |
Isn't this getting all a little... abstract? The law of cause and effect is also something that was proposed (Several hundred years ago) to explain what we observe -- but saying "the universe had to have a cause, therefore: God" isn't something we trumpet that loudly anymore (Though John Locke seemed to think it was enough proof for anybody).
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