The Universe Cause

[Acriku]

A while back, you may have read about Empr's stance that the universe must have had a cause. Well, I am here to bring skepticism on this.

We first begin with the assertion that whatever begins to exist must have a cause. I ask: why? This is nothing more than, as Smith likes to put it, "an empirical generalization based on observation." But - hold the phone here. You mean we have observed things coming into existence? This just isn't so. What we have observed are changes of the states of things. Meiosis splits a gamete into two, and the two into four, and so on. The gamete fuses with the opposite gamete, and develop into me and you. Changes of the states of things. Not popping into existence, but changes of already-existing things. So, what basis does Empr have to say that whatever begins to exist must have a cause? I see none.

In fact, Stephen Hawking and many other scientists have developed the The Wave Function of the Universe, which gives a 95% probability that this universe was not caused. To explain it further, I'll let you read this:

Hawking's theory is confirmed by observational evidence. The theory predicts that our universe has evenly distributed matter on a large scale - that is, on the level of super-clusters of galaxies. It predicts that the expansion rate of our universe - our universe has been expanding ever since the Big Bang - would be almost exactly between the rate of the universe expanding forever and the rate where it expands and then collapses. It also predicts the very early area of rapid expansion near the beginning of the universe called "inflation." Hawking's theory exactly predicted what the COBE satellite discovered about the irregularities of the background radiation in the universe.

For more information, go to

http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/smith_18_2.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/27930/wavefunction.htm

http://www.qsmithwmu.com/the_ontological_interpretation_of_the_wave_function_of_the_universe.htm

http://www.geocities.com/capecanaveral/hangar/6929/h_kaku2.html