We've all asked
the question from the age of 2. Why did the universe have a beginning
but not God? If God didn't have a beginning why should the universe
have a beginning. Couldn't the universe just have always existed? Why
a need for God?
The answer is
found in understanding why the universe had to have a beginning.
Science supports Einstein's claim that the universe is a closed
system. That means it has finite energy. Even though energy cannot be
created or destroyed (by any natural processes), over time the useful
energy in the universe becomes more and more useless. This is known
in science as the Second Law of Thermodynamics. If the universe were
eternal then all of the energy would have become totally useless by
now and I wouldn't be writing this article and you wouldn't be
reading it either!