Dave
I see entropy reversal or rewinding thus in my layman terms
Reversing time the Earth de-form into clouds of stellar materials
produced from exploded stars which themselves de-explode and then de-
coalesce toward becoming a dense uniform opaque plasma. As time
accelerates backwards space itself collapses inward, as if it is being
vacuumed away, moving all the material in the universe ever nearer,
with all finally crashing into a beginning point. As the universe
crashes inward it seems obvious that we must be closing in on some
sort of birth. We seem to be moving backward toward what must
inevitably be a distinct creation event, where the somethingness of
matter arises from a primordial nothing.
But at this moment an act of omnificent magic, a fortunate accident,
or something completely inexplicable, considering the universe is
expanding it appears evident that somehow all that we know, has been,
and everything that shall follow in the wake of the present, came to
be all at once at one moment of time in our past. It seems evident
that somehow something impossibly erupted to create a beginning, even
if all the laws of nature as they are known today in science forbid
such an event. The first law states that energy is neither created nor
destroyed. Furthermore, every ounce of logic be it intuitive or
mathematical, demands that something cannot be created out of
absolutely nothing. A zillion zeros still add up to zero. And
logically, if something comes from nothing, then it wasn't really
nothing to begin with then was it? And yet the universe is here, and
all is expanding away from one single place and one single time,
before which there is no possibility of time as we perceive time.
Every bone in a reasonable person's body screams that this sudden
creation event could not have happened by itself. A universe cannot
just pop into existence. The existence of a universe and our own
existence require a cause. With trhe belief in an eternal infinity God there is no need to go into infinte regression
And so we ask, does this impossibility of
'something coming from nothing' mean that the universe absolutely had
to have been created? Did a powerful being of some kind (usually
assumed to be named God) create the first moment of our universe? It
is almost a relief to consider this possibility in the face of such a
paradoxical dilemma, except we actually know that this solution only
suspends and relocates the mystery. All the same questions we ask
about how the universe came to be, must then be diverted to this being
called God. The inference of some seems to be that God is so powerful
that God is beyond needing an explanation, yet realistically the same
old questions apply. How long has this being existed? How did God
begin from nothing? If it has existed forever, then how can it just
exist? Why does God exist rather than nothing at all?
Is the above not a reasonable assumption? We must put aside infinite regression and believe in the Ever Existing One
Regards
aLAN