Hi All:
>From the April issue of "Discover Magazine" comes the following
excerpted description of how the universe was created, followed by a
quote from physicist Alan Guth, author of the Inflationary Theory.
"Quantum theory holds that a vacuum, like atoms, is subject to
quantum uncertainties. This means that things can materialize out of
the vacuum, although they tend to vanish back into it quickly.
Theoretically, anything -- a dog, a house, a planet -- can pop into
existence by means of this quantum quirk, which physicists call a
vacuum fluctuation. All matter plus all gravity in the observable universe
equals zero. So the universe could come from nothing because it is,
fundamentally, nothing."
Says Guth, "It is rather fantastic to realize that the laws of physics can
describe how everything was created in a random quantum fluctuation
out of nothing, and how over the course of 15 billion years, matter could
organize in such complex ways that we have human beings sitting
here, talking, doing things intentionally."
"Fantastic" hardly captures the implausibility of the physicist's
explanation. From nothing--zero, zip, nada--magically appears the
universe. By comparison, resurrection from the dead appears infinitely
reasonable, and the MOQ positively explodes with explanatory power.
Platt
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