Assertion: universe | /r/HasProperty | eternal
Facets:
value: on this view
type: LOCATION
value: over an unlimited period of time
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In fact, secular scientists once believed that the universe was eternal and unchanging.
text: Time and Change: The world of the Forms is eternal and unchanging.
text: In order for God's creation to resemble His eternal nature and be His eternal object partner, it likewise must be composed of dual characteristics.
text: On the whole, he attempts to prove through generally convoluted arguments that the universe is eternal–
text: Hume also points out there is still a possibility that the universe could have been created by random chance but still show evidence of design as the universe is eternal and would have an infinite amount of time to be able to form a universe so complex and ordered as our own.
text: It argued that when the universe was first created, the universe was random and chaotic, but if the universe is eternal, over an unlimited period of time, natural forces could have naturally 'evolved' by random particles coming together over time into the incredibly ordered system we can observe today without the need of an intelligent designer as an explanation.[citation needed]
text: Aquinas was interested not in a beginning cause but in a sustaining cause, for he believed that the universe could be eternal—although he believed on the basis of revelation that it was not eternal.
text: The universe knows it is eternal, and we (and all life) are part of the information domain of the universe - which is the whole rationale for the existence of the cosmos.
text: His other major gripe with the analogy is that it implies that the world is eternal.
text: The world would have to be eternal on this view because God is eternal and if God is the soul and the universe is his body, then he could not have existed before the universe.
text: If the world were eternal then surely all these things would have been done before.
text: Philo replies to this line of reasoning with the obvious rebuttal: to claim that the world is eternal, is not to claim that it was eternally like it is now.