Escaping the Beginning? Part One with Astrophysicist Jeff Zweerink

<p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'aktiv-grotesk', '-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Oxygen-Sans', Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">Moses knew it long before any of the best minds in physics and cosmology knew it. And what did Moses know? That "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." </p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'aktiv-grotesk', '-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Oxygen-Sans', Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">Just a hundred years ago, the sciences of the heavens had stumbled across what appeared in the mathematical and observational data as evidence that our universe did in fact have a beginning. </p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'aktiv-grotesk', '-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Oxygen-Sans', Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">But like Moses, philosophers and theologians of earlier centuries understood our universe to have had a beginning. But the burgeoning skepticism of the 18th-century Enlightenment philosophy led many to believe the universe could be explained without God. </p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'aktiv-grotesk', '-apple-system', BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Oxygen-Sans', Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-inden