The Universe
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From BestBibleScience.org, stating that the Universe is evidence for creation:
By definition, something must be eternal (as we have “something” today and something cannot come from “nothing”, so there was never a time when there was “nothing”). Either the universe itself is eternal, or something/someone outside of and greater than the universe is eternal. We know that the universe is not eternal, it had a beginning (as evidenced by its expansion). Therefore, God (the something/someone outside of the universe) must exist and must have created the universe. Einstein showed that space and time are related. If there is no space there is no time. Before the universe was created there was no space and therefore no concept of time. This is hard for us to understand as we are space-time creatures, but it allows for God to be an eternal being, completely consistent with scientific laws. The question “who created God” is therefore an improper/invalid question, as it is a time-based question (concerning the point in time at which God came into existence) but God exists outside of time as the un-caused first cause.
Just because we know the Universe is finite, this does not necessitate that an eternal being predates it. It merely means we don’t know what preceded the universe, and hopefully in due time, science will provide the answer. In fact, there are some people currently trying to figure out what came before the universe, or if it just existed in a different state than that which we know now.
One of the most amusing things about this statement though from BestBibleScience is that it’s self-contradictory. In the very first sentence, it states that “‘something cannot come from ‘nothing’”. And the very last sentence states that “God…exists as the un-caused first cause”. These two ideas, when put together, blatantly contradict one another, defeating their own argument.
QED
