| | The big bang singularity is sometimes named '''the ''hot'' big bang singularity''' to emphasize the fact <ref name="WhomadeGod"/> that while going back in the time towards the origin of the universe, all matter and ''energy'' in the universe gets squeezed together into a "pinhead" - a process that would make it "very, very, very ''hot''".<ref name="WhomadeGod"/><ref name="NAS"/> Hot Big Bang singularity appears to be in violation of [[The First Law of Thermodynamics|the first law of thermodynamics]] since the global energy needed to run universe has come from nowhere and the principles of nineteenth-century physics require that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Thus, the hot Big Bang singularity remains beyond any [[cause and effect|causal]] scheme and the creation of the universe is still unexplained by any force, field, power, potency, influence or instrumentality known to physics or humankind.<ref name="DeniableDarwin"/> The [hot] big bang singularity does not represent a physical concept, because it cannot be accommodated by a physical theory. It is a point at which physical theories give the way.<ref name="Devils"/> | | The big bang singularity is sometimes named '''the ''hot'' big bang singularity''' to emphasize the fact <ref name="WhomadeGod"/> that while going back in the time towards the origin of the universe, all matter and ''energy'' in the universe gets squeezed together into a "pinhead" - a process that would make it "very, very, very ''hot''".<ref name="WhomadeGod"/><ref name="NAS"/> Hot Big Bang singularity appears to be in violation of [[The First Law of Thermodynamics|the first law of thermodynamics]] since the global energy needed to run universe has come from nowhere and the principles of nineteenth-century physics require that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Thus, the hot Big Bang singularity remains beyond any [[cause and effect|causal]] scheme and the creation of the universe is still unexplained by any force, field, power, potency, influence or instrumentality known to physics or humankind.<ref name="DeniableDarwin"/> The [hot] big bang singularity does not represent a physical concept, because it cannot be accommodated by a physical theory. It is a point at which physical theories give the way.<ref name="Devils"/> |
| | J.C. Lennox points out that the supporters of various schools of [[materialism]] let their worldview to play a role in their antipathy to the idea of beginning. Among them are [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]] (cf. "Did the God created the world, or has the world been in existence eternally?"), [[Stephen Hawking]] (cf."the idea that the time has beginning...smacks of divine intervention") and Sir John Maddox, a former editor of ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' (cf. "ultimite origin of our world [gave creationists] ample justification [for their beliefs]").<ref name="LENNOX"/> | | J.C. Lennox points out that the supporters of various schools of [[materialism]] let their worldview to play a role in their antipathy to the idea of beginning. Among them are [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]] (cf. "Did the God created the world, or has the world been in existence eternally?"), [[Stephen Hawking]] (cf."the idea that the time has beginning...smacks of divine intervention") and Sir John Maddox, a former editor of ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' (cf. "ultimite origin of our world [gave creationists] ample justification [for their beliefs]").<ref name="LENNOX"/> |