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Meyer on Theistic Implications of Big Bang Cosmology
| January 29, 2017 | Posted by kairosfocus under Intelligent Design |
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Again, food for thought on intersections of science, cosmology, philosophy, the idea of God and Theology. END
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Meyer has some’at to say . . .
Of related note:
Also of related note:
From the best scientific evidence we now have, from multiple intersecting lines of evidence, we now have very good reason to believe that the entire universe came instantaneously into origination at the Big Bang.
Not only was all mass-energy brought into being, but space-time itself was also instantaneously brought into being at the Big Bang:
Hawking, Penrose, and Ellis were instrumental in extending General Relativity to reveal that, according to the predictions of General Relativity, not only did mass-energy have a absolute (singular) beginning at the Big Bang, but that space and time also had an absolute (singular) beginning at the Big Bang:
The validity of General Relativity has only grown stronger since Hawking, Penrose and Ellis extended General Relativity to include space-time:
The co-discoverers of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR) were not shy in pointing out the obvious Theistic implications of their discovery:
Of note: Although the term ‘Big Bang’ implies a disorderly event, such as events associated with explosions, the Big Bang was far from a disorderly explosion:
Of related note: Although some people, such as Hawking, have tried to get around the Theistic implications of the Big Bang in General Relativity by invoking ‘Quantum Cosmology’, the truth of the matter, as mentioned in post 1, is that Quantum Cosmology, whilst seemingly sweeping the Theistic implications away from General Relativity, inadvertently reintroduce Theistic implications else where. Here is Meyer’s video again, as well as a Dr. Craig video, that deal with that mathematical ‘sleight of hand’ that Hawking tried to employ to avoid the implication of Theism for the Big Bang:
Of related note to undermining Hawking’s ‘Quantum cosmology’:
Since, from the best scientific evidence we have, mass-energy space-time were instantaneously brought into being at the Big Bang, then it logically follows that whatever brought the universe into being had to be transcendent of mass-energy space-time. Yet the only things that we know of that are transcendent of space-time mass-energy are consciousness and information.
Here are a few quotes on the irreducibility of consciousness to material explanations
Dr. Meyer comments on the transcendent nature of information in the following video:
Thus since consciousness and information have a transcendent, i.e. beyond space and time, quality to them that refuses to be reduced to any realistic materialistic explanations, then it ‘scientifically’ follows that consciousness and information are leading candidates for explaining what brought the universe instantaneously into being at the Big Bang.
Moreover, although atheistic physicists and mathematicians have, IMHO, grossly misused Quantum Theory to try to get around the Theistic implications of the Big Bang, the fact of the matter is that when quantum mechanics is properly used it clearly reveals that consciousness and information must have preceded the Big Bang.
It is first important to note that although General Relativity primarily describes what happens within 4-D space-time, for Quantum Mechanics, space-time is secondary, even negligible, in its description of reality:
And whilst General Relativity predicts a beginning for the universe, Quantum Mechanics instead gives us evidence for how God upholds and sustains this universe in its continued existence since the Big Bang.
First off, an ‘uncollapsed’ photon, in its quantum wave state, is mathematically defined as ‘infinite’ information:
Moreover, this ‘infinite information’ quantum qubit is also mathematically defined as being in an ‘infinite dimensional’ state:
Here is bit closer look at the Theistic implications inherent in the Double slit and Quantum Electrodynamics:
Thus every time we observe/measure, (i.e. collapse a quantum qubit of), a single photon we are actually seeing just a single bit of information that was originally created from a very specific set of infinite information that was known by the infinite consciousness that preceded material reality. i.e. information that was known only by the infinite Mind of omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, God!
And the experimental tests of the predictions of Quantum Mechanics have performed flawlessly. Here is one recent result to should be particularly unnerving for atheists.
Myself, as a Christian, I find the Theistic implications inherent in both General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics to be quite comforting to my beliefs that God both created and sustains this universe. In fact, I find both theories to be very comforting to my Christian belief that God defeated death through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead:
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a big bang (SPIRALL) , not the big bang (SCM)
see ‘Distant Starlight and the age, formation and structure of the universe’