Is our Universe infinite?

The concept of a fine-tuned universe is the back bone for the theists arguing for a Designer, who created such a finely tuned Universe, so that life can be formed and sustained. Atheists argue that such a fine-tuned universe could have come about in a random manner, where in one planet like ours, earth, out of hundreds thousands of such planets, spinning around a star, the sun, among billions of stars, in the Milky Way galaxy, out of millions of such galaxies, could have just happened to have such a finely calibrated constants, capable of sustaining life, as a result of random shuffling. It is purely an accident or a chance that it happened to happen. Atheists are willing to even speculate about a Multiverse, because they assume that the probabilities of throwing up a well tuned universe with a sun and a planet capable of bearing life are much more in a Multiverse. Of course they are not able to produce any evidence for any such a Multiverse. It is only a conjecture.

Be that as it may, is it possible to say that the Universe has always been existing? That the Universe has no beginning and no end and is eternal? This in fact is the argument of the atheists, saying the Universe is as eternal and infinite as God. There is no need for a God, who is infinite, the “First and the Last, the Beginning and the End,” “who was, who is and who is to be.” The Universe itself is infinite and has always existed.

Is this hypothesis plausible? The majority of the physicists in today’s world have agreed on the Big Bang theory, which means there was a beginning point of Big Bang, when the Universe came into existence and started to expand. Thereafter time and space began, and matter came into being. Anything that has a beginning will have to have an end. If so it is definitely not an infinite Universe!

Secondly it has been established that our Universe is slowly running out of usable energy. Our own sun is slowly burning out and will soon be a cold star, with no warmth to offer. This is the Second law of Thermodynamics. If the Universe has existed forever, then according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, it would have run out of steam by now! The same concept will apply to Multiverse too, even if such a plurality of Universe is there.

Thirdly, if the Universe had a beginning, then there must have been a cause that made it to exist for some purpose. Thus the Universe has a cause. As the Universe could not cause itself, it has to be caused by a Cause, which is beyond space, time and matter. Such a Cause has to be spaceless, timeless, immaterial, uncaused, and unimaginable powerful. That is what we call God, whom our atheists friends have problem accepting. We have no such problems, we love to affirm in the presence of a loving and caring God, Almighty, who created the heavens and the earth and all that is therein by His might.

Bible acknowledges this in Psalm 19:1, wherein King David says,

         “The heavens declare the glory of God;

         And the firmament shows His handiwork.”

In Jeremiah 10:12, the prophet avers,

       “He made the earth by His power,

        He has established the world by His wisdom,

       And has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.”

Again in Isaiah 40:22 & 23, the prophet Isaiah writes,

       “Have you not known?

        Have you not heard?

        Has it not been told you from the beginning?

        Have you not understood from the foundation of the earth?”

       “It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,

        And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,

       Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,

       And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.”

Isaiah writes further, in 40:26,

       “Lift up your eyes on high,

        And see who has created these things,

       Who brings out their hosts (stars) by number,

       He calls them all by name,

       By the greatness of His might

       And the strength of His power;

       Not one is missing.”

He is the everlasting God, the Lord of this Universe, who created everything for His glory, including human beings, the crowning glory of His creation on earth. Unfortunately some of us refuse to believe in God, even when truth is staring right at our face. We can only empathize with them and pray to God to give them the wisdom to know and love the Lord our Creator and Savior, the Lord Almighty.