Faith and reason chapter 2.1- Mr. C

St Thomas Aquinas position on the origin of the universe

finitude of time in the universe could only be known through the revelation

Fine Tuning Argument

universe has been intentionally designed for the eventual emergence of living things

The numbers and laws that control physics

Constant is a number that controls the equations or physics

Stephen Hawking beliefs with the beginning of the universe

Creation could occur from nothing because of law

Impact of entropy on the bouncing universe theory

Entropy measles the degree of disorder of a system

Big Bang and entropy question

False

Measures the degree of disorder or disorganization of a system

Entropy

Einstein's thoughts on the Big Bang:

Big Bang crunch then bounced and reepanded repeatedly

Name of Einstein's theory

Bouncing unversed hypothesis

What is a personal god

a deity who can be related to as a person instead of as an impersonal force, such as the absolute, "the

all", or the "ground of being"

What scientist wasn't a believer

Einstein

What scientist was a believer

Heisenberg,eddington, Pauli, godel

What led Lemaitre to believe in the Big Bang theory

lemaitre ingeniously solved the problem of how the recessional velocities of distant galaxies could be

greater than those of nearer ones

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• mathematics, rejected it at first

The ideas was really quite radical- so much so that Einstein, though impressed with lemaitres

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Four major speculative theories of the universe:

-multi verse hypothesis

-Bouncing universe hypothesis

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-Pre Big Bang eternally static hypothesis

expanding

-Night dimensional space universe hypothesis

Bouncing universe hypothesis

Earth is crunching and expands

The four fundamental forces necessary for intelligent life:

Electromagnetic force

String nuclear force

Weak force

Gravitational force

What is the universe

Precise

Any slight change

No universe

red shift

Far

What does the second law of thermodynamics state?

energy cannot be converted without the loss of usable energy

"From nothing, on nothing can come."

We can know something else about nothing. It is highly likely that the universe came from something which is not that physical reality.