Season 1 Podcast 8, "Where Do Laws Come From?"

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Season 1 Podcast # 8 "Where Do Laws Come From?"

We have all heard the conundrum, what came first, the chicken or the egg? It is similar to the question, ‘What came first the act of creation or the laws of creation?’

Growing out of the scientific explanation of the big bang as the beginning of creation some fourteen billion years ago, science appears to assume that all creation came from the explosion of a singularity smaller than an atom. Science claims that we live in an accidental universe and that man, in the words of Bertrand Russel, English philosopher, is nothing more than an accidental collocation of atoms. In effect, science claims that the egg (the singularity) came before the chicken.

One is compelled to challenge science and ask “How can something come from nothing?”

Even if the big bang occurred 14 billion years ago, it occurred only because of law. Where did law come from?

Science believes that it will all end in a giant heat death. At least on that point, Isaiah would say, you are somewhat right:

“6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner:”

And so would the Apostle Peter:

(2 Peter 3:10)

10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

The difference, of course, is that the Holy Prophets predicted that something greater would follow:

Isaiah concluded,

Isaiah 51:6

“but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.”

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And John the Revelator said,

Revelation 21:1 “1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.”

That is the difference between the nihilism of science and the optimism of Christianity.

Science claims there was nothing before the big bang, that all creation is only 14 billion years old and there will be nothing after the giant heat death, what they call maximum equilibrium.

Christians claim that God is eternal and though galaxies may come and go, creation never ends, that because of Christ man will be resurrected and live forever.

There is no contradiction between Christianity and the theory that the big bang marks the origin of our small universe just as there is no contradiction with the scientific theory that galaxies are generated by black holes.

The difference, of course, is this, explained best by Saint John,

Revelation 21 2. “And I john saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.”

The New Jerusalem is known as the eternal city. It will endure forever for it is the home of God.

The big bang, if it occurred, could well have occurred when scientists say. Its study is one of the most fascinating theories of science, but life and law did not begin fourteen billion years ago. Life has always existed. As with matter and energy, the essence we call life, that is intelligence and consciousness, cannot be created or destroyed. All things temporal, such as the universe, must have a beginning and that which has a beginning will have an end, the earth for example, the solar system, the Milky Way Galaxy, but that which is spiritual has neither beginning nor end. It is made of eternal matter. That is why the body dies but the spirit doesn’t.