Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!philabs!aecom!teitz From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: the Universe, w/o antecedents Message-ID: <1074@aecom.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 11:58:47 EST Article-I.D.: aecom.1074 Posted: Thu Jan 3 11:58:47 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 01:49:21 EST References: <2163@umcp-cs.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 22 { quote at end } 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). >