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Now I will be giving a defense of premise two.


The universe began to exist.


I will start out by giving two philosophical arguments followed by two scientific arguments and in my next blog I will give a defense of the premise to objections. Okay let's begin!


First off the argument for the beginning of the universe is based on the notion of a infinite. A infinite cannot exist.


Here is the argument:


1. A actual infinite cannot possibly exist.

2. A universe that never began entails a actual infinite exists.

3. Therefore the universe began to exist.


Now the notion of a infinite existing is incoherent. Because the infinite leads to absurdities. Let's take a illustration. Hilbert's hotel. Now let's envision a hotel with a finite amount of rooms and all the rooms are full. Now let's say a guest come looking for a room he has to be turned down. Now let's say that the hotel has a infinite amount of room and all the rooms are full. And a guest comes looking for a room the manager says no problem no problem so he moves the guest in room 1 to room 2 and the guest in room 2 to room 3 so on out to infinity and as a result room one is now vacant! And the new guest gratefully checks in. Now it can get even stranger. Now let's say a infinite amount of a guests come asking for a room. The manager says no problem and moves the guest in room 1 into room two he moves the guest in room two into room 4 the guest in room 3 into room six. He moves every guest in each room twice his own. 1 into 2 , 2into4 and so on out to infinity. As a result all the odd number rooms are vacant! And the infinity of new guests gratefully check in. And yet before they arrived all the rooms are full.  As Dr. craig puts it if hilbert's hotel could exist it would have to have a sign out front saying " NO VACANCY GUESTS WELCOMED" Now hilbert's hotel use correct logic but it is absurd. It is impossible for something like hibert's hotel to exist.

There is another illustration I love which I call the jupiter-saturn paradox. Now let's imagine the universe is infinite into the past. It never began. Everything that exists has always existed. The planets and everything. Now jupiter rotates twice as fast as saturn. So whenever saturn completes a rotation jupiter completed twice as much. Now if the universe is infinite these planets have been rotating forever. So they both completed a infinite amount of rotations. But it still true that jupiter completed twice as much. This is absurd. But it get even stranger. Let's take the rotation of one planet. That planet completed a infinite amount of rotations. We could ask is the number odd or even? It has to be one or the other right? So the answer is both! This is absurd. So I think we are well enough justified in affirming the absurdities if a actual infinite could exist. But if a actual infinite cannot exist than the universe cannot be infinite. So it must have beginning.


That is all for today's blog. God bless!