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><font color=blue><center><b> >THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE ></font></center></b><p> >There are two views of origins. One says that >everything came about by natural causes; the other >looks to a supernatural cause. In the case of the >origin of the universe, either the universe had a >beginning or it did not. If it did have a beginning, >then it was either caused or uncaused. If it was >caused, then what kind of cause could be responsible >for bringing all things into being? ><p> >Evolutionary scientists have told us that the universe >either came from nothing by nothing or that it was >always here. One such theory is called the steady >state theory and also calls for the universe to be >constantly generating hydrogen atoms from nothing. In >either case, holding to such beliefs has a high cost >for the scientist, for both of these violate a >fundamental law of science: the law of causality. Both >views require that the scientist believe in events >happening without a cause. Even the great skeptic >David Hume said, <font color=blue><i>"I never asserted >so absurd a proposition as that anything might arise >without a cause.” </font></i> [David Hume, ><i>Letters</i> ed. by J.Y.T. Greig (Oxford: Clarendon, >1932), vol. I, p. 187. Yet this absurd proposition is >accepted by men who make their living by the law of >causality. If the whole universe is uncaused, why >should we believe that the parts are caused? If the >parts are all caused, then what evidence could suggest >that the whole is uncaused? Nothing in the principle >of causality supports this conclusion. The evidence is >just not there. ><p> >Rather, a great deal of evidence now supports the >option that the universe had a beginning. Robert >Jastrow, founder and former director of NASA's Goddard >Institute for Space Studies, has summarized the >evidence in his book God and the Astronomers, saying, ><font color=blue><i>"Now three lines of evidence—the >motions of the galaxies, the laws of thermodynamics, >and the life story of the stars—pointed to one >conclusion: all indicated that the Universe had a >beginning." </font></i> [Robert Jastrow, <i>God and >the Astronomers </i> (New York: Warner Books, 1978), >p. Ill.] ><p> > Now if we are speaking of a beginning of the >universe—a movement from no matter to matter—then we >are clearly in the realm of unrepeatable events >covered by origin science. ><p> >[From When Skeptics Ask by Geisler & Brooks]

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