Ancient cosmology
- Cosmological views of the Ancient Near East cultures
- Greeks believed the universe was comprised of the Earth in the center of giant spheres
- Jewish cosmology
- Firmament
- Raqia is better translated as expanse rather than firmament
- In the beginning
- Metaphor
- Phenomenological language
- Flat earth myth
- Snow dome myth
- How would you prove heliocentrism is true?
- Scientists reluctant to accept there was a beginning to the universe
Counter arguments
- Long list of natural phenomena that were once attributed to the gods
- The Church believed the Bible described the Earth as a flat disk for centuries
- Why would a single author include two versions of the creation story?
- Shouldn’t Genesis be scientifically accurate?
- Religious culture is littered with creation stories
Modern cosmology
- Evidence exist to support we are not at the center of universe?
- Uniform cosmic microwave background radiation
- Argument we are near center of the universe
- More on the uniformity of the CMBR
- Cosmic inflation
- Ad hoc explanations
- Inflation theory is not scientific
- Flatness problem
- General and special revelation
- More evidence of fine-tuning
- Fine-structure constant
- Penrose number
- Scientists have resorted to extranatural explanations
- Pale blue dot
- Rare earth
- Fermi paradox
- Universe cannot be cyclical or eternal
- Entropy
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Heat death
- Big Bang started as a black hole
- Galaxies moving faster than the speed of light
- Space time fabric
- Implications of space time expansion
- Summary of arguments why space-time fabric is not expanding
- Space-time as a single entity is not accepted by all physicists
- Dark energy similar to theological explanations
- Gravitational redshifting
- White hole
- Isotropic, but not homogeneous
- Gravitational time dilation
- Cosmology summary
Oldness/Flatness problem
Extraterrestrial life
- How likely are we to find extraterrestrial life?
- Empirical evidence for any extraterrestrial life
- Rare Earth
- Aliens must exist
- Unidentified Aerial Phenomena
Is the universe created or eternal?
- Is the universe created or eternal?
- Kalam cosmological argument
- Laws of thermodynamics
- Steady state theory
- Natural and supernatural