Yeah

 

 I know, 

"No part of this book can be reproduced in part or whole...

 blah blah blah..

Sue me

I live in the corner of a garage 

with a space heater and no internet :-).

I couldn't even make to to court if I had too...

FIGURE 11.5

The chapters to follow will assess which of the competing metaphysical hypotheses or worldviews best explain the three key discoveries about the origin of the universe and life: (1) the universe had a beginning (the big bang); (2) the universe has been fine-tuned for the possibility of life from the beginning; and (3) large bursts of biological information (stored in DNA and elsewhere) have arisen in the earth's biosphere since the beginning of the universe making new forms of life possible.

FIGURE 11.4

The four worldviews of theism, deism, pantheism, and materialism represent four possible ways of answering three basic questions about ultimate reality: 

Does God exist? 

If so, is God personal or Impersonal?

 If personal, does God act only at the beginning of the universe or also after the beginning

within the created order?

Philosophers recognize several main worldviews with different answers to the "prime reality" question. Theism affirms a personal, intelligent, transcendent God who also acts within the creation. 

Deism asserts a personal, transcendent, intelligent God who does not act within the created order after its initial origin. Naturalism (or materialism) affirms matter and energy and the laws of nature as the prime realities. Pantheism asserts an impersonal deity present in matter and energy as the prime reality. In these diagrams portraying these four great systems of thought, the circles represent the physical universe, the drawings inside the circle depict various living and nonliving entities within the universe, the pendulum represents the laws of nature, and "the big G" represents God. Notice that in Theism, God is depicted as separate from but also active in the universe; in Deism, God is depicted as separate from but not active in the universe; in Naturalism or Materialism, God is portrayed as nonexistent, and in Pantheism, God is shown as present in, or "co-extensive" with, every aspect of the material universe but not existing in any way separate from it.

To put it another way, if someone posits the existence of God-and, say the Judeo-Christian doctrine of creation-as a metaphysical hypothesis, then he or she would expect evidence of a finite universe. Arno Penzias, the physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the cosmic background radiation, has said as much. As he notes concerning the big bang: "The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the first five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole." In making this connection, Penzias evidently had in mind the famous first words of the Bible, "In the beginning, God created..." 

Further, scientifically informed theists know that modern physics teaches that matter and energy exist in space and time. They also know that (1) matter and energy are linked (by Einstein's equation E = mc²); (2) matter and space are linked (as John Archibald Wheeler put it, "Space tells matter how to move, and matter tells space how to curve"10); and (3) space and time are linked, as the concept of spacetime in general relativity implies. Consequently, these theists think of time and space as much as matter and energy as created entities. But that means that any act of creation that brings matter and energy into existence would also bring space and time into existence. Thus, both the universe and the time in it  should have a beginning." For these and other reasons," theists who conceive of God as a personal agent might reasonably expect to find evidence of a temporally finite universe-evidence that the universe had a beginning.

Physics:

"matter and energy are linked"

"matter and space are linked"

"space and time are linked"

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

"In the beginning"

Time

Past present and future.

"God created"

(initiated, brought into being)

Energy

"the heavens"

Space.

Height width and depth.

"and the earth"

Matter

(Solid liquid and gas.)

A trinity of trinity's in the first 10 words 

that just happens to explain physics. 

You might wanna start taking it  serious.

Some Jewish mystics have made the proposition that when all is revealed? 

Even the spaces between the letters will have meaning.

And it's things like this:

Time

Past present and future.

"God created"

(initiated, brought into being)

Energy

"the heavens"

Space.

Height width and depth.

"and the earth"

Matter

That ought to clue you in 

that the book is not from this time space continuum.

It's from outside of it.

It is beyond human capabilities.