Your request has been received. The startling discovery of modern science is that our physical universe is actually finite .
Scientists now acknowledge that the universe had a beginning .
While the details among the many variants of these theories remain quite controversial, the fact that there was a definite beginning has gained widespread agreement. This is, of course, what the Bible has maintained throughout its 66 books. Mankind, therefore, finds itself caught in the finite interval between the singularity that began it all and a finite termination. In the microcosmic domain, there also appears to be an even more astonishing boundary to smallness . If we take a segment of length, we can divide it in half.