The Uncaused Beginning of the Universe


	The Uncaused Beginning of the Universe

wildcat

3-31-2007 11:30 AM

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science, philosophy, atheism, universe, no cause

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4-1-2007 7:53 PM

sidegik

thanks, interesting theory. Stay tune for my own little theory.

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The Uncaused Beginning of the Universe (1988)</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/uncaused.html"><H2>
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Smith</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/uncaused.html"><I>The following article was originally published in PHILOSOPHY
OF SCIENCE in 1988 (Volume 55, No. 1, pp. 39-57).</I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/quentin_smith/uncaused.html"><P>My purpose in this paper is to argue that there is sufficient evidence
at present to warrant the conclusion that the universe probably began to
exist over ten billion years ago, and that it began to exist without being
caused to do so. I believe accordingly that the positions held by many
if not most contemporary philosophers concerning this issue are unjustified,
for their beliefs typically fall into one of three mutually exclusive categories,
(1) the universe is probably infinitely old, (2) the universe began to
exist and its beginning was caused by God, and (3) insufficient evidence
is available to enable us to decide about whether the universe began to
exist or is infinitely old.
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