Friday, March 23, 2012

Creationism vs. Big Bang Thoery

Typically unnoticed by both sides in the standard contemporary debate over whether the universe was created by God, or originated in a 'Big Bang', is that they agree that the universe had a beginning. Hence, neither side reckons with the possibility that e. g. a theory of Eternal Recurrence is the correct one, in which case each of them is wrong. Furthermore, neither side seems familiar with Kant's demonstration, in the First Antinomy, that the 'universe' in question neither has a beginning nor does not have a beginning. However, Kant does allow that such theories can have heuristic value, while, similarly Pragmatists hold that they can be compared in terms of explanatory power. Nietzsche goes further to compare them in psychological terms. So, neither invoking Scripture nor implicating mathematical techniques suffices to establish either Creationism or the Big Bang theory as a fact, regardless of the fervor of the proponents of each, or of the grip that their dispute has on the public imagination.

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