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'''Singularity''' is an event that due to its nature is assumed to only happened once<ref name="LENNOX">{{cite book
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In physical realms the '''singularity''' is an event that due to its nature is assumed to only happened once<ref name="LENNOX">{{cite book
 
|author=John C. Lennox
 
|author=John C. Lennox
 
|title=God's undertaker. Has science buried God?
 
|title=God's undertaker. Has science buried God?
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|isbn=978-0-7459-5371-7
 
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|quote=Apart from the obvious fact that no one observed [the origin of the universe], scientists think of the Big Bang as a singularity in the past, an unrepeatable event;...}}</ref> and that has no ''natural'' explanation. Most frequently the term is used in connection with the [[origin science|origin]] of the [[universe]]. When scientific principles were first being developed into the [[scientific method]], scientists like [[Francis Bacon]], [[Johannes Kepler]], [[Isaac Newton]], and [[Lord Kelvin|William Kelvin]] distinguished between primary and secondary (''natural'') causes. A ''primary cause'' was meant to be a ''first cause'' to explain singularities.<ref name="skeptics">{{Cite book
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|quote=Apart from the obvious fact that no one observed [the origin of the universe], scientists think of the Big Bang as a singularity in the past, an unrepeatable event;...}}</ref> and that has no ''natural'' explanation. Most frequently the term is used in connection with the [[origin science|origin]] of the [[universe]]. When scientific principles were first being developed into the [[scientific method]], scientists like [[Francis Bacon]], [[Johannes Kepler]], [[Isaac Newton]], and [[Lord Kelvin|William Kelvin]] distinguished between primary and [[Natural causes|secondary (''natural'') causes]]. A ''primary cause'' was meant to be a ''first cause'' to explain singularities.<ref name="skeptics">{{Cite book
 
   | author = Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks
 
   | author = Norman L. Geisler and Ronald M. Brooks
 
   | year=1990
 
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|quote= }}</ref> as another parameter goes to zero. There is however a problem how to interpret such terms as an infinite temperature, infinite mass, infinite energy or infinite force in the realms of physics. That's why many [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalistic]] physicists assume that there is some new set of physical laws<ref name="Guth">{{cite web
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|quote= }}</ref> as another parameter goes to zero. There is however a problem how to interpret such terms as an infinite temperature, infinite mass, infinite energy or infinite force in the realms of physics. That's why [[Naturalism (philosophy)|naturalistic]] physicists who [[Reductionism|reduce]] their explanations of physical reality to ''secondary (natural) causes'' assume that there is some new set of physical laws<ref name="Guth">{{cite web
 
|title=ALAN GUTH, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics
 
|title=ALAN GUTH, Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics
 
|publisher=MIT department of physics
 
|publisher=MIT department of physics
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== References ==
 
== References ==
 
{{Reflist}}
 
{{Reflist}}
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==See also==
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*[[Origins debate]]
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[[Category:Philosophy of science]]
 
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