The First Law of Thermodynamics vs The Cosmological Argument

Does the First Law of Thermodynamics (the Law of Conservation of Energy) assume an infinite universe where matter and energy lasted forever and eternal? And does this refute the first premise of the Kalam Cosmological argument that whatever begins to exist has a cause? Dr. William Lane Craig says no. Unfortunately it looks like many impressionable and sophomoric atheists have been dealing with pop science when it comes to the First Law of Thermodynamics.

Dr. William Lane Craig writes more on the First Law of Thermodynamics in his Q&A article here: http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6515

Video adaptation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j7nPo5gvMA

This is part of the "Defending the Cosmological Argument" series. Table of Contents: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=916E17EE70E98A68

Related:

The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the Cosmological Argument:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h351nDd3ZvA

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Cosmological
• Argument
• First
• Law
• Thermodynamics
• Conservation
• Energy
• Matter
• William
• Lane
• Craig

[KEEETARO]

There is only one things I can only say...

My god is true and yours is false!!!

You would say pretty the same do you? :P

[drcraigvideos]

@KEEETARO Uhm, no, I guess I should say "well, lookee here! you're right!" What do you think I should say? I mean duh!

[drcraigvideos]

@moreslaw Well, your thinking is as comparable as Dawkins' thinking of philosophy (this is meant to be a bad thing by the way). And you dodged my rebuttal like a game of dodge ball.

[csdr0]

Dr. Craig is right. The Big Bang created the laws of physics including the laws of thermodynamics. If it had an infinite past then we would have long since reach a state of maxumum entropy sometime in the infinite past.

[wullz16]

@MajSmJz "He says it's strange that something should come out of nothing", he has ever made that claim. If you want a distinction between the quantum vacuum, and nothing -> watch?v=Clr8uL3M7Ow

[MajSmJz]

That's strange. Here WLC says there is no problem with conservation of matter and energy for BB, but on other occasions he says it's strange that something should come out of nothing. I wonder where my flaw of understanding lies.

[theRevolutionof2012]

Can infinite be closed?

[31Uriel]

Universe= energy, space, time. So: The time can exist timelessly. Not really.

[spiritring]

Read Isiah 45 in NIT version. It says, It is me God who STRETCHES the heavens and created all the millions and millions of stars. There is no way in the Bible that supports 6 days special creationism, and NEVER geocentrism

[csdr0]

@moreslaw, Are you suggesting then that the "single point universe" existed in the infinite past? If that is the case then I wonder why did it only start to expand 13.72 billion years ago instead at some unimaginably infinite time in the past?

[JohnGolbunny]

@drcraigvideos "And the Big Bang is compatible with Genesis"

LOL

good one...