#06: The Universe Began to Exist | Why Islam is True | Hamza Karamali

[@Kakashi_Ramanov]

Beautiful.. Beautiful... Allahu akbar... I love your simplification of very complex concepts. Jazakumullahu khaeran... Salam from Nigeria

[@BasiraEducation]

wa iyyakum!

[@amdegia]

Salamz. Correction its ~14b years ago, not 14b light years. Light year is a measure of distance.

[@BasiraEducation]

Thanks for the correction. Yes, that was a slip of the tongue.

[@yourebeautiful9169]

Can you please explain why any irreversible decrease entails an end Like why can’t there be an infinite transgression of heat dissipation Can you please clarify Thank you

[@mohamedfredj4998]

From a scientific point of view, it's not a fact that the universe has a beginning and that if we go back in time the tiny point (singularity) will vanish into nothing. Currently, there are different theories and speculations, for example according to the theory of the "loop quantum gravity", the universe could always have existed and it's a kind of cycle from the big bang to the big crunch. That's why I think that the argument from creation (dalil al-huduth) could not be used with a scientific person. This person will recognize that the universe is expanding (by the way all the credit doesn't go to Hubble, before him Georges Lemaître who is a priest and a brillant physicist discovered this, that's why we call it now the Hubble-Lemaitre law) but the fact that the universe is changing (hawadith) doesn't mean that it has a beginning in science (in rational thinking yes but not in science). In conclusion, I think that it's more safe to refer to the contingency argument (dalil al-imkan). PS : Sorry for my bad english, it's not my mother tongue.

[@quinnlarnachjones]

This is all very compelling, but how do I reconcile the argument from creation with the law of conservation of energy, namely that energy cannot be created or destroyed? Another question, do Muslims believe that the material the universe is made of has always existed, (albeit without form, and from there God introduced form) or at one point was there nothing material in existence?

[@BasiraEducation]

The fact that the universe began to exist entails that the law of conservation of energy only applies from the moment that the universe began to exist and doesn't extend to before the existence of the universe. Muslims believe in the creation of the universe ex-nihilo -- it did not exist and God brought it into existence.

[@delstone5736]

Verses suggest the heavens and earth were created from existing matter rather than ex nihilo. The origins of that matter are unclear - possibly ex nihilo, possibly not. What evidence is there for ex nihilo? The big bang does not evidence it either way.