I really enjoyed speaking at Waterfront City Church in Plymouth this morning. I looked at the origin of the universe, the origin of organic life, and evolution. I then took 45 minutes of questions after the preach, which I really enjoyed. I hope I helped those visiting the church for the first time will feel that you don’t have to commit intellectual suicide to become a Christian!

On my first point, I presented new material on the Kalam Cosmological Argument and also on the Borde, Guth, Vilenken Theorem.

In 2003, scientists Arvind Borde, Alan Guth and Alexander Vilenkin, were able to prove that any universe that has on average over its past history been in a state of cosmic expansion cannot be eternal in the past and must have a space time boundary.

And crucially Borde, Guth and Vilenkin were able to show that their theorem holds not just for our universe, but that it applies to the multiverse as well.

Vilenkin writes: “It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. With the proof now in place, cosmologists can no longer hide behind the possibility of a past-eternal universe. There is no escape they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning.”

I then had a great time going to lunch with my friends Grant and Suz Van Schalkwyk and their children Chloe and Joel.

PS. Snow update: I’m told First Great Western ran ghost trains through the night on Friday night to keep the tracks clear. Us Brits – we can beat the snow after all – not a single delay on the Paddington to Plymouth route on Friday or Saturday!

 

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