Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
Did the Universe Have a Beginning?
Air date: 7-10-07
Jeff Zweerink, Dave Rogstad, and Joe Aguirre
- Discussion
- Analysis of the Kalam cosmological argument and other theories
- Scholars referred to a presentation by James Sinclair
- James D. Sinclair, “The Physical Substantiation of the Kalam Argument,” ppt presentation at Evangelical Philosophical Society, New Orleans Meeting, February 23, 2007.
- Resources
- The Creator and the Cosmos,, 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross
- Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, “The Singularities of Gravitational Collapse and Cosmology,” Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, 314 (1970), 529-48.
- Resources
- James D. Sinclair, “The Physical Substantiation of the Kalam Argument,” ppt presentation at Evangelical Philosophical Society, New Orleans Meeting, February 23, 2007.
- Call-in questions
- Ronnie from Naples, FL:
- Is there a way to resolve OE/YE debates over the first three days of creation given that these events took place during “nontime”?
- Roger from Portland, ME:
- Ronnie from Naples, FL:
- Email questions
- Mark B.:
- Robert Knox:
- Are there any proposed time-frames for when the universe achieved infinite size?
- Article referenced:
- Martin A. Bucher and David N. Spergel, “Inflation in a Low-Density Universe,” Scientific American January 1999, 62-69.
- Article referenced:
- Are there any proposed time-frames for when the universe achieved infinite size?
- Dan Morris from Ovid, MI:
- Can you reconcile how we know that space dust, clouds, or whatever, aren’t a reason for any given standard candle’s light to appear dimmer to us, therefore giving a false estimate of its distance from Earth?
- Blake from Dallas:
- Given that the chances of a universe existing with a cosmological constant that permits life are only 1 in 10120, could these values have been any other way given that we have a sample size of one?