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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
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Subject: Re: the Universe, w/o antecedents
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Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 11:58:47 EST
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  How do you scientifically explain the big bang? How can something just
 be there? Mustn't there be a conservation of energy? Where did it all come
 from in the beginning?

				Eliyahu Teitz.


> From: 				Eliyahu Teitz.
> >	If you believe, though, that the universe is timebounded, then 
> > where did it come from? If you like the big-bang theory, from where the 
> > bang? The theory, as I understand it, assumes gasses floating around 
> > that exploded.  Where, pray tell, did these gasses come from? They 
> > were "just there". If so why not think that somehow they were put 
> > there ( by, you guessed, G-D ).
> 
> Why not?  Well, why so?  Personally I liked "The Meaning of Life" by Kurt
> Baier, reprinted in E.D. Klemke et. al., eds., *Introductory Readings in the
> Philosophy of Science* (except where Baier strays into moral philosohphy).
>