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The God Argument
Looking in the Google ads bit at the side of the page I found a link to ‘The God Argument‘, it tries to make the logical case for God being behind the universe’s creation. Let’s have a look:
Is The Universe Eternal?
The Kalam Argument demonstrates using simple logic that the universe cannot be eternal. The argument is initially credited to Aristotle.
The Kalam argument says that if the universe is eternal, then the past must be eternal and without a beginning. But if the past was eternal, then we could of never arrived at the “NOW”. To get to the “Now” from an eternal past, means we would of had to traverse (go through) an infinite amount of time (all of eternal history)! But that’s impossible, it’s like trying to count to infinite, you can count on forever but you will never arrive! A good analogy is trying to jump out of a bottomless pit, you won’t have much luck.
The world of time we live in and eternity are two very different things. Time cannot be eternal in the past as we could never traverse infinite or have an infinite succession of events. The universe could go on forever without end, but this is different from being eternal and unchanging.
The problem with this is that time cannot be divided into a series of ‘ nows’ (as Aristotle himself said when analysing Zeno’s thinking in the arrow paradox). We could arguably divide a second into an infinite series of instances which we have to travel though, yet it doesn’t stop us moving through the seconds. A better analogy than jumping out of the bottomless pit would be falling down a bottomless pit, but this still isn’t good as it implies the pit had an opening, which an eternal universe wouldn’t have.
The universe might turn out not to be eternal, but you can’t disprove it through a thought experiment.
