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Big Bang cosmology put to bed the Newtonian assumptions of infinite time and mass in our observable universe. Funny enough, modern anti-theists say that religion desperately claims that the Big Bang theory is compatible with Geneses as a last ditch attempt to look reasonable, but in reality, the theory was first proposed by a Catholic priest. Even St. Augustine, in 400 AD, did not think the first ten chapters of Geneses as literal historical truth, but used to teach the dogma of the Fall.

Everything we “see” appears to be quite finite (10^53 Kg of visible mass and a finite amount of dark matter) and with a beginning about 13.7 billion years ago. The discovery of additional universal constants that must all together interact to make the universe capable of supporting life makes it exceedingly improbable that it could all happen by “cosmic chance”. The constants are such that minor changes in ANY of them would make the formation of life statistically impossible. That is to say or very existence as living entities and the observation that a random occurrence of the anthropic values of our universe’s constants is so remote to be virtually impossible without multiversity theory, which as anyone with a knowledge of anthropic theory knows that there is less proof for this than which atheists say theists have for God. Here Occam’s razor comes into play and all this theory does is play with infinites, which as discussed above, are not found in a finite creation.

As of this moment, the vast majority of scientific discovery, philosophical inquiry and gathered data points to a finite universe that had to be a product of an Intelligent Designer. Quantum Theory has expanded the horizons of ontology to make science contend with the new evidence (information fields & non-location) for things like non-materialistic “information-like” dimensions of physical reality. Big Bang cosmology has introduced the likelihood of the finitude of the observable universe; contemporary universal inflationary theory has easily shown a strong probability of an initial singularity. All implying a causative power from an uncaused-cause that transcends time-and-space also know as God.

When all scientific discoveries are allowed to compliment the traditional philosophical proofs for a deity they provide a completely rational foundation for the existence of a unique, unconditioned, unrestricted, absolutely simple, super-intelligent, continuous Creator of all that is.

Aquinas’ uncaused Cause arguments are rooted in Aristotle’s unmoved Mover argument which becomes deficient in the 17th-18th century due to it applying causation principals to interaction on material bodies. The current focus of thought is now directed toward the activity of fields as the entire assumed ontological nature is changing rapidly with modern discovery. Aquinas’ following Aristotle’s pioneering work allowed for the possibility of infinite past-time and assumed an infinite temporal regression. But the later Kalam proofs developed 1,000 years later have since proven the impossibility of an actual infinite being applied to a finite structure. The West wasted a lot of time following the relatively safe assumptions of Aquinas.