Comments on: Intelligent Design…Is There Any Other Kind?

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admin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:46:07 +0000

Hi DLL,
Thanks for your comment!

An edge to the universe?

Interesting question…I knew I wouldn’t get any easy ones when I started writing this blog :)

I’m no astrophysicist, but I can give you a crude run down about how I understand the ‘edge’ of the universe…

Basically, there isn’t one. At the risk of sounding a bit ‘Star-Trekkie’, physicists actually do describe a curved space-time continuum when describing the universe.

It’s likened to a balloon being filled with air (expanding) and getting larger, but without an ‘edge’…more like a surface, but I’m not sure if the balloon surface analogy works with the universe. All matter and energy is contained within it, and there’s nothing beyond it unless there are other unobservable dimensions that we are unaware of. It would be like setting out looking for the ‘edge’ of the earth…you’d just keep going and continue around the curve without reaching an edge. I’m unaware of any scientific evidence to indicate there are other ‘universes’ outside of this one, though there are conjectural theories.

I see no change in the issues surrounding the belief in a creator whether or not there is an edge to the universe, or something beyond the universe. Either way we’d just be observing how God decided to create. As far as Christianity, there is no real indication in the Bible that I’m aware of that suggests anything beyond this universe…but I see nowhere that explicitly limits God to having created only our universe either.

That’s the best I’m capable of on the spot…and I definitely have no wish to do further research in astrophysics, so I’ll leave that to you if you want more :)

Hope that helps!
Rod

By: DLL

DLL — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:46:48 +0000

Hey Rod… I just found your site and have enjoyed reading your posts. You make some philosophical things make a bit more sense to me.

I wonder if you might comment on your understanding of the finiteness of the universe. I think most scientists believe it to be finite… so what would happen if you could stand on the edge and look off (or walk off). Would the universe extend to where you looked or walked? I’ve often wondered if it was kind of a higher dimensional sphere where if you kept going east, you’d end up in the west. :)

Are there any implications of this to our belief in a creator?