{"id":2608,"date":"2012-08-29T10:35:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T14:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2012-08-29T11:40:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T15:40:05","slug":"film-asks-cosmic-question-did-god-create-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2012\/08\/film-asks-cosmic-question-did-god-create-the-universe.html","title":{"rendered":"Film asks &#8220;Cosmic&#8221; question: Did God create the universe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The ultimate mystery movie.\u00a0 <\/strong>That would be <em>Cosmic Origins,<\/em>\u00a0a fascinating documentary\u00a0that dares tackle the greatest mystery of them all &#8212; that of existence itself.\u00a0 So, what does science actually tell us about the creation of the universe? And does the scientific creation story negate a belief in God?<\/p>\n<p>Executive produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.magisreasonfaith.org\/about_spitzer.html\">Robert J. Spitzer<\/a> (a Jesuit priest) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barbara_Nicolosi\">Barbara Nicolosi<\/a>, the fascinating film employs the likes of physicist Stephen Barr, Lisa Randall (a theoretical physicist named one of Time Magazine&#8217;s 100 Most Influential People in 2007), Nobel laureate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arno_Penzias\">Arno Penzia<\/a>s, Harvard astronomer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Owen_Gingerich\">Owen Gingerich<\/a>, NASA scientist J<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jennifer_Wiseman\">ennifer Wiseman<\/a>, and Templeton Prize winners <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Polkinghorne\">John Polkinghorne <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Micha%C5%82_Heller\">Michael Heller<\/a> to make a compelling case that belief in science and faith are complementary rather than mutually exclusive. Okay, now I must admit I was pre-convinced of that notion &#8212; but it&#8217;s nice to hear some really smart people explain to me why I&#8217;m not necessarily the simpleton militant atheists seem to think I am.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, as the film reveals, the whole idea of a schism between the search for God and the search for scientific truth is something of a modern invention.\u00a0 It was, after all, a Belgian priest named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre\">Georges Lema\u00eetre <\/a>who came up with idea of\u00a0 the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Big_Bang\">Big Bang Theory<\/a> to begin with. (And here I thought it was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chuck_Lorre\">Chuck Lorre<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Ably directed and co-written (along with Warren Lam) by my former <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Faith_Under_Fire\"><em>Faith Under Fire<\/em><\/a> colleague Martha Cotton, Cosmic Origins is <strong>Highly Recommended<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I recently spoke with Fr. Spitzer, the philosopher-priest\/president of the Magis Center of Reason and Faith about the film.\u00a0 Highlights from our conversation can be read below the trailer. The DVD is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignatius.com\/Products\/CO-M\/cosmic-origins.aspx\">available for sale via Ignatius Press<\/a>. For information on organizing screenings of <em>Cosmic Origin<\/em>s for your group or parish, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicoriginsfilm.com\/?gclid=CKvx-NT1i7ICFadlOgod4k8Aow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe title=\"Cosmic Origins Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QP_dgLE0-q8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>JWK:<\/strong> Before we get to the origin of the universe, how did the concept for this film come to be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>FR. ROBERT J. SPITZER:<\/strong> <strong><\/strong>Basically, I had about five friends \u2013 mostly physicists \u2013 (and we were) kind of reflecting on&#8230;whether or not the media &#8212; inadvertently or , perhaps, culpably &#8212; were trying to convey the impression that faith and science are incompatible \u2013 that faith led away from science.\u00a0 This kind of upset us a little bit to say the least because essentially we were of the opinion that it goes the opposite way. In fact, if you really know your physics, it\u2019s really difficult to escape the possibility, or even the probability, of a creator and an intelligent creator at that.<\/p>\n<p>So, we thought okay let\u2019s get some first-class (scientists)&#8230; and lets just line them up and talk about not just the other side of the story (but) the much more probabilistic side of the story which seemed to, for whatever reason, not be hitting the media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK:<\/strong> You&#8217;re actually distributing two versions of the film, correct?<\/p>\n<p><strong>RJS:<\/strong> Yeah. One has a lot of extra things for Catholics \u2013 a long interview between (Fr.) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joseph_Fessio\">Joe Fessio<\/a> and myself and some other philosophers of science who are clerics.\u00a0 It\u2019s not in the actual documentary but when you pull it up in the Catholic version there is one extra there which is my intro and that\u2019s integrated into the film. Everything else is just the standard film but then you have a menu and it has additional options. You can click on any of those options\u00a0 and you will see a much more in-depth explanation of\u00a0 some of the things that are in the film.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>JWK:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>I was surprised to learn from the film that it was actually a Catholic priest who, more or less, first came up with the Big Bang Theory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RJS:<\/strong> Oh, Not more or less. \u00a0He, in fact, did. His name was Father Georges Lema\u00eetre\u00a0 and, basically, he got his\u00a0PhD from MIT&#8230;and became a colleague of Einstein\u2019s. It\u2019s kind of a cute story \u2013 which I think is true \u2013\u00a0\u00a0 where he basically came up to Einstein\u00a0 asking for approval of the theory as an explanation for the radio velocity of the extragalactic nebulae..these light sources which we later found out were galaxies that are outside of our galaxy of the Milky Way but are going way too fast.\u00a0Lema\u00eetre\u00a0 just couldn\u2019t explain it by the standard <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theory_of_relativity\">Theory of Relativity<\/a> so (he) had kind of a bizarre-but-brilliant flash.\u00a0 He thought, well, what if space is stretching? No, not that the galaxies are moving away from each other in already existing space which was the Einsteinian model which, at that time, was called the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steady_state_theory\">Steady State Theory<\/a> &#8212; but, instead, that space was stretching\u00a0 like the surface of a balloon and that all of the galazies were being carried away from all of the other galaxies by the stretching of this balloon through the stretching of the space-time continuum.<\/p>\n<p>So, he projected it outwards and, basically, showed Einstein that you could not only explain by this theory how the radio velocities could be in excess of anything predicted by a Steady State interpretation&#8230;but also he came up with the constant for the overall rate of expansion of the universe and that was called the\u00a0Lema\u00eetre\u00a0 Constant.\u00a0 The only reason that the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hubble_Constant\">Hubble Constant<\/a> is the one that\u2019s used rather than the Lema\u00eetre\u00a0 Constant is because Hubble actually had much more precise observations from the Mt. Wilson Observatory which enabled him to do things that really Lema\u00eetre really couldn\u2019t have done.\u00a0 Lema\u00eetre&#8217;s Constant was very close to the Hubble Constant. The Hubble Constant is more accurate\u00a0 but today even you see\u00a0Lema\u00eetre&#8217;s name\u00a0 everywhere in cosmology.\u00a0 He\u2019s a very, very well known cosmologist.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, for a long, long time time, people thought the Big Bang was the beginning of the universe. Even (renowned physicist) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stephen_Hawking\">Stephen Hawking<\/a> seemed ot have that view for a little while \u2013 even though he was postulating other possible views.\u00a0 He was one of the first ones to postulate the Singularity Theory.\u00a0 So, for a while there, it looked like the Big Bang was the creation of the universe.\u00a0 By the way, there are a lot of physicists who still believe that to this very day.\u00a0 Nothing has been proven to the contrary.\u00a0 There\u2019s no evidence for a pre-Big Bang period but nevertheless there is a possibility of a pre-Big Bang period that is introduced by what we call\u00a0 Inflationary Theory and by what we call Quantum Cosmology\u00a0 and one type of quantum cosmology is String Theory.\u00a0 In that particular model,\u00a0 you could have a pre-Big Bang period.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>JWK:<\/strong><\/strong> I&#8217;m confused but let me ask you, in terms of our faith, does any of this matter?<\/p>\n<p><strong>RJS:<\/strong> No, it doesn\u2019t matter at all.\u00a0 But the interesting thing, of course, is if you could actually have proof of a beginning of the universe that&#8230;would also be proof of a creator. In physics, a beginning is actually a beginning, not just of the universe as a constant, but it\u2019s also the beginning of physical space and physical time.\u00a0 So, prior to this moment of beginning, you have a fundamental point that\u2019s called Singularity. Prior to that point, a mathematical point that really is only a boundary, it\u2019s not something physical. It&#8217;s just a boundary prior to which its physical space and physical time are nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Now, unless you want to go out on a limb\u00a0 with Stephen Hawking, and say that nothing is something \u2013 which most\u00a0metaphysicians\u00a0 are loathe to do \u2013 then, essentially, if you consider nothing to be nothing then nothing can only do nothing.\u00a0 And if nothing can only do nothing then when the universe in its physical time was nothing than it could not have moved itself from nothing to something \u2013 implying that something else did.\u00a0 And that\u2019s where you get the whole notion of Transcendence.\u00a0 A beginning of the universe is inescapable, an implication of some sort of Transcendence or creation outside of our universe.<\/p>\n<p>Pre-Big Bang periods are totally hypothetical\u00a0 but is there any way we can judge whether a hypothetical pre-Big Bang period would have to have a beginning? And there is, as a matter of fact. There are two methods that are used. One is called the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spacetime\">Space-Time Geometry<\/a> Proof and the other\u00a0 is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Entropy\">Entropy<\/a>, the second law of thermodynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there are two models for a pre-Big Bang period. \u00a0The first model is called a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multiverse\">multiverse<\/a>.\u00a0 A second model is called an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/oscillating+universe\">oscillating or bouncing universe <\/a>in higher dimensional space. I could just give you the rundown of why both of those need a beginning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK:<\/strong> A &#8220;multiversem,&#8221; isn&#8217;t that what they talk about on the TV show <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fringe_%28TV_series%29\"><em>Fringe<\/em><\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>(Fr. Spitzer has absolutely no idea what I was talking about which made us, for one brief moment, even.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>RJS:<\/strong> A Space-time Geometry proof \u00a0(requires) a boundary to the space-time continuum in a pretty fundamental way. Since the discovery of Inflationary Theory by Alan Guth , there have been three such proofs.\u00a0 The first one occurred in 1993 and it was formulated by two people \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Vilenkin\">Alexander Vilenkin<\/a> (Director of the Institute of Cosmology at Tufts University)&#8230;and an Indian fellow by the name of Arvin Borde (Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of California Santa Barbara).<\/p>\n<p>Borde and\u00a0Vilenkin&#8230;proposed a proof in <a href=\"http:\/\/prl.aps.org\/\">Physical Review Letters<\/a> that is still a valid proof to this day but it basically showed that any Inflationary Universe that met five conditions would have to have a beginning. It doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s a multiverse&#8230;By the way, a multiverse is like a big mega universe that\u2019s burping out little bubble universes all the time. Essentially, this proof would extend to even a multiverse if the multiverse met all five conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in 1997, Borde and\u00a0Vilenkin actually found a possible exception to their third condition, it\u2019s called the Weak Energy Condition&#8230;They basically saidt here is a possibility that you could get out of this proof for a beginning but the probability is so remote that even <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alan_Guth\">Alan Guth<\/a>, the father of Inflationary Theory up at MIT,\u00a0 just basically said (it&#8217;s) remote as to be physically unrealistic&#8230;.(Guth said) &#8220;Try as physicists might to prove an inflationary model universe that does not have a beginning , (they) have been unable to do so. All known and all hypothetical models that are currently projected may be enternal into the future but they cannot be eternal into the past.\u00a0 Everyone of them must have a beginning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, a definitive proof with one condition was discovered by all three of them.\u00a0 Borde, Vilenkin and Guth basically got together and published an amazing proof \u2013 a very elegant pr0of &#8230;They basically indicated that any multiverse or universe&#8230;would all have to have a beginning and so basically they have put an end any speculation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> Fr. Spitzer forwarded me an article he wrote in which he quotes Alexander Vilenkin&#8217;s 2006 explanation of the proof:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We made no assumptions about the material content of the universe. We did not even assume that gravity is described by Einstein\u2019s equations.\u00a0 So, if Einstein\u2019s gravity requires some modification, our conclusion will still hold.\u00a0 The only assumption that we made was that the expansion rate of the universe never gets below some nonzero value, no matter how small. This assumption should certainly be satisfied in the inflating false vacuum.\u00a0 The conclusion is that past-eternal inflation without a beginning is impossible.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>RJS:<\/strong> The reason their proof is so good is because&#8230;first, it&#8217;s independent of the physics of any universe.\u00a0 Secondly, it only has one condition. Instead of five conditions and the one condition is one that all multiuniverses and most bouncing universes have to meet. It\u2019s that the average Hubble Expansion be greater then zero.<\/p>\n<p>Now, what\u2019s a Hubble Expasnion. That\u2019s the rate of expansion of the universe as a whole \u2013 like the blowing up of a balloon. It\u2019s hthe rate\u00a0 at which the whole of the space-time continuum is stretching\u00a0 and pulling galaxies apart from one another&#8230;It\u2019s so simple that nobody can disprove it or has disproved it.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there&#8217;s a lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg21328474.400-why-physicists-cant-avoid-a-creation-event.html\">summary of all of this<\/a> in The New Scientist from January of this year.<\/p>\n<p>But, anyway, Alexander Vilenkin essentially went to Stephen Hawking&#8217;s birthday party at the beginning of the year and, you know, at physicists&#8217; birthday parties they read academic papers . SO, he read his paper (on) why physicists cannot avoid a creation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK:<\/strong> Didn&#8217;t Hawking embrace atheism?<\/p>\n<p><strong>RJS:<\/strong> Well Hawking embraces what I call Radical Agnosticism without coming out the atheistic door&#8230;&#8221;Science has no need of God&#8221; is how he phrases it.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t\u00a0 phrase it as&#8221; There is is no God. &#8221;\u00a0 So, I kindd of call it a Radical agnosticism.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s got a bunch of theories but the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hartle%E2%80%93Hawking_state\">Hartle-Hawking Theory<\/a> doesn\u2019t work. (Many) physicists have pointed this out and, of course it never gets into the popular media.\u00a0 It\u2019s like the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Higgs_boson\">God Particle<\/a>. What does a God Particle have to do with creation? Nothing. What does it have to do with God?\u00a0 Nothing!\u00a0 (Finding it) wouldn\u2019t disprove God at all. It has nothing to do with God!\u00a0 It\u2019s basically a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Introduction_to_the_Higgs_field\">Higgs field<\/a> which is rushed out along with energy and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Introduction_to_the_Higgs_field\">boson<\/a> basically indicates the presence of the field. It\u2019s not even a particle your\u2019 really looking for here. The particle basically an indication of the field.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK:<\/strong> But the media seems to present the God Particle as almost disproving God?<\/p>\n<p><strong>RJS:<\/strong> Yeah and it\u2019s absolutely ludicrous.\u00a0 I mean the whole God Particle thing to begin with is a marketing gimmick. Essentially&#8230;(physicist) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Higgs\">Peter Higgs<\/a> wanted to write a book called <em>The GD Particle<\/em> (meaning)\u00a0 exactly what you think &#8212; and, of course his editor said you can\u2019t call it that. (Then someone) said &#8220;Let\u2019s drop the damn and call it T<em>he God Particle<\/em>.&#8221;\u00a0 And, of course, the marketing gimmick worked&#8230;The media has played it up like its some kind of disproof of God. It\u2019s hilarious. Anyone who knows any physics is just laughing. I mean chortling! It\u2019s just nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>(Back to the original point, the Hartle-Hawking Theory) has left out the\u00a0Borde, Vilenkin and Guth theory and that\u2019s whyVilenkin got mad at him and went to his birthday&#8230;&#8221; Why Physicists Cannot Avoid a Creation&#8221;&#8230;explains it very very well.<\/p>\n<p>It goes through a three-step proof for why you simply can\u2019t avoid a creation and, at the end, he just kind of lays it over to Stephen and with the complete implication of \u201cHey, you never mentioned any of this!\u00a0 This has been in the physics literature since 2003. You wrote the Grand Design and you ignored all this evidence! I won\u2019t let you do this with impunity!&#8221; And Lisa Grossman calls her (New Scientist) article \u2013 the summary the\u00a0Vilenkin paper Why Physicists Cannot Avoid a Creation &#8212; the &#8220;Worst Birthday Present Ever!\u00a0 SO , you get the point.<\/p>\n<p><em>Encourage one another and build each other up \u2013 <\/em>1 Thessalonians 5:11<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s today&#8217;s dispatch from the crossroads of faith, media and culture. The ultimate mystery movie.\u00a0 That would be Cosmic Origins,\u00a0a fascinating documentary\u00a0that dares tackle the greatest mystery of them all &#8212; that of existence itself.\u00a0 So, what does science actually tell us about the creation of the universe? 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