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| − | *"I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional [[Atheism|atheist]] whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." - [[Albert Einstein]]<ref name="Isaacson390">Isaacson, Walter (2008). [http://books.google.com/books?id=cdxWNE7NY6QC&pg=PT390 ''Einstein: His Life and Universe''] (New York: Simon and Schuster), p. 390. Retrieved from GoogleBooks archive on February 19, 2015.</ref>]] | + | *"I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional [[Atheism|atheist]] whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being." - [[Albert Einstein]]<ref name="Isaacson390">Isaacson, Walter (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=cdxWNE7NY6QC&pg=PT390 ''Einstein: His Life and Universe''] (New York: Simon and Schuster), p. 390. Retrieved from GoogleBooks archive on February 19, 2015.</ref>]] |
| | In 1915 Einstein introduced the field equation that placed into balance and found equal the [[Curvature of space|curvature]] at one side and [[Mass (science)|mass]] on the other. He hoped that the equations of [[general relativity]] would determine a single universe model without any beginning or end. For reasons he could never make clear, he found universe so conceived particularly satisfying and he managed to find a solution to his own equations that specified universe of that sort, static and unchanged forever.<ref name="Devils"/>{{#tag:ref|The contemporary atheistic scientists such as [[Stephen Hawking|S.Hawking]] believe there is no room for creator in the universe which has no boundary or edge whereas in universe which had beginning we could suppose it had a creator.<ref name="WhomadeGod">{{cite book | | In 1915 Einstein introduced the field equation that placed into balance and found equal the [[Curvature of space|curvature]] at one side and [[Mass (science)|mass]] on the other. He hoped that the equations of [[general relativity]] would determine a single universe model without any beginning or end. For reasons he could never make clear, he found universe so conceived particularly satisfying and he managed to find a solution to his own equations that specified universe of that sort, static and unchanged forever.<ref name="Devils"/>{{#tag:ref|The contemporary atheistic scientists such as [[Stephen Hawking|S.Hawking]] believe there is no room for creator in the universe which has no boundary or edge whereas in universe which had beginning we could suppose it had a creator.<ref name="WhomadeGod">{{cite book |
| | |author=Edgar Anrews | | |author=Edgar Anrews |
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| | |pages=98, 100 | | |pages=98, 100 |
| | |isbn=978-0-85234-707-2 | | |isbn=978-0-85234-707-2 |
| − | |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=EOFfAAAACAAJ&dq=Andrews+who+made+God&source=bl&ots=5Ru2cf9HRQ&sig=PilSMEqTMAmqtoUgJ9idnBQpH64&hl=en&sa=X&ei=099xUNuqE43KtAa8uICIDA&redir_esc=y | + | |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EOFfAAAACAAJ&dq=Andrews+who+made+God&source=bl&ots=5Ru2cf9HRQ&sig=PilSMEqTMAmqtoUgJ9idnBQpH64&hl=en&sa=X&ei=099xUNuqE43KtAa8uICIDA&redir_esc=y |
| | |quote= Stephen Hawking puts it thus: 'So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning not end; it would simply be. What place then for creator?'}}</ref> See also: [[Singularity#Antipathy to the idea of beginning|Antipathy to the idea of beginning]]|group=note}} A.G. Riess declares that Einstein's original idea was to have constant amount of energy in the space.<ref name="RiessNobel"/> When in 1920s Russian mathematician A.Friedman (1924)<ref name="Friedman">{{cite web | | |quote= Stephen Hawking puts it thus: 'So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning not end; it would simply be. What place then for creator?'}}</ref> See also: [[Singularity#Antipathy to the idea of beginning|Antipathy to the idea of beginning]]|group=note}} A.G. Riess declares that Einstein's original idea was to have constant amount of energy in the space.<ref name="RiessNobel"/> When in 1920s Russian mathematician A.Friedman (1924)<ref name="Friedman">{{cite web |
| | |author=Alexander Friedmann | | |author=Alexander Friedmann |
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| | |chapter = The Cause | | |chapter = The Cause |
| | | url=http://www.davidberlinski.org/devils-delusion/about.php | | | url=http://www.davidberlinski.org/devils-delusion/about.php |
| − | | quote = }}</ref> implying an [[Expanding universe|expanding]] or collapsing universe,<ref name="DismantlingBB">{{cite book|author=Alex Williams, John Hartnett|title=Dismantling the Big Bang|publisher=Master Books|location=Green Forest, AR, USA|year=2005|pages=110|isbn=978-0-89051-437-5|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=EvN9Gfbox74C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dismantling+Big&source=bl&ots=uuIXDOw4ld&sig=wWFH6PJy2ZW5JQc8N59jTX5FVd0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9WlsUJ-cJ8bGtAasp4H4Bg&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=CSR&f=false|quote=...his equations were telling [Einstein] that [the universe] had to be either collapsing or expanding...A large value [of cosmological constant] would cause large redshifts and spacial distortion in nearby objects...[the cosmological constant ...involves fine-tuning of over 120 orders of magnitude (quoted Lawrence Krauss)]}}</ref> Einstein, wishing to cancel out expansion, suggested modification to his field equations by adding a so-called cosmological term.<ref name="CSR">{{cite book | + | | quote = }}</ref> implying an [[Expanding universe|expanding]] or collapsing universe,<ref name="DismantlingBB">{{cite book|author=Alex Williams, John Hartnett|title=Dismantling the Big Bang|publisher=Master Books|location=Green Forest, AR, USA|year=2005|pages=110|isbn=978-0-89051-437-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EvN9Gfbox74C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Dismantling+Big&source=bl&ots=uuIXDOw4ld&sig=wWFH6PJy2ZW5JQc8N59jTX5FVd0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9WlsUJ-cJ8bGtAasp4H4Bg&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=CSR&f=false|quote=...his equations were telling [Einstein] that [the universe] had to be either collapsing or expanding...A large value [of cosmological constant] would cause large redshifts and spacial distortion in nearby objects...[the cosmological constant ...involves fine-tuning of over 120 orders of magnitude (quoted Lawrence Krauss)]}}</ref> Einstein, wishing to cancel out expansion, suggested modification to his field equations by adding a so-called cosmological term.<ref name="CSR">{{cite book |
| | |author=Moshe Carmeli | | |author=Moshe Carmeli |
| | |title=Cosmological Special Relativity, The Large-Scale Structure of Space, Time and Velocity, 2nd Edition | | |title=Cosmological Special Relativity, The Large-Scale Structure of Space, Time and Velocity, 2nd Edition |
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| | |title=Nobel Laureates 2011 | | |title=Nobel Laureates 2011 |
| | |publisher=nobelprize.org | | |publisher=nobelprize.org |
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