Cosmology: our galaxy is an oddball (Introduction)

by dhw, Monday, October 23, 2017, 13:51 (2587 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: We know this universe had a beginning and expanded to beyond the CMB. It therefore is limited and its galaxies are not infinite. Previously, if He has made many universes, which I don't doubt, there is probably an infinity of galaxies. I stated above 'this' universe.

dhw: Firstly, we don’t “know” this universe had a beginning – that is a theory. Secondly, we don’t “know” that it is limited – that is a theory. Thirdly, thank you for acknowledging that there is probably an infinity of galaxies. That would apply even if there is no God and even if this universe had a beginning, because we don’t and can’t know what happened before the beginning.

DAVID: We have no current evidence that this current universe represents an eternal universe. All the current theories either accept a beginning or a cyclical coming and going. The CMB cannot be ignored.

A cyclical coming and going allows for an eternal universe, and unless I am much mistaken, it also allows for the CMB. You seem already to have forgotten your own theory, according to which you have no doubt that your God has made many universes and there is “probably an infinity of galaxies”.