This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The Top 10 Intelligent Designs (or Creation Myths)Ĭopyright 2012, a TechMediaNetwork company. The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps The History & Structure of the Universe (Infographic) So let's just leave it at the laws of physics."įollow senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter or. There was no other television job he wanted. "And I don't know what produced that divine spark. When Mark Armstrong took over as the sports anchor at WTVD in 2004, he fired his agent not long after he arrived in Raleigh. "The 'divine spark' was whatever produced the laws of physics," Filippenko said. The origin of the laws of physics remains a mystery for now, he added, one that we may never be able to solve. The process leads to a never-ending chain that always leaves you short of the ultimate answer, Filippenko said.
"And you could say, 'Well, that required a divine creator, who created these laws of physics and the spark that led from the laws of physics to these universes, maybe more than one.'"īut that answer just continues to kick the can down the road, because you still need to explain where the divine creator came from. "The question, then, is, 'Why are there laws of physics?'" he said. It may get us one step closer, but it doesn't take us all the way, Filippenko said. If we're after the ultimate origin of everything, however, invoking the laws of physics doesn't quite do the trick. "I don't think you can use science to either prove or disprove the existence of God," Filippenko said. Saying the Big Bang - a massive expansion 13.7 billion years ago that blew space up like a gigantic balloon - could have occurred without God is a far cry from saying that God doesn't exist, he said.
"I don't know how that affects your theological leanings, but it is something to consider."įilippenko stressed that such statements are not attacks on the existence of God. "So it could be that this universe is merely the science fair project of a kid in another universe," Shostak added. It's not clear you could get into that universe, but you would create it." "If you would just, in this room, just twist time and space the right way, you might create an entirely new universe. "Quantum mechanical fluctuations can produce the cosmos," said panelist Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the non-profit Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute. And this can lead to very big things indeed, researchers say. In the very weird world of quantum mechanics, which describes action on a subatomic scale, random fluctuations can produce matter and energy out of nothingness. Filippenko spoke here Saturday (June 23) at the SETICon 2 conference, during a panel discussion called "Did the Big Bang Require a Divine Spark?"
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