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Since the Law of Causality is well established and undeniable, premise 1 is true.

What about premise 2? Did the universe have a beginning?

If not, then no cause was needed.

If so, then the universe must have had a cause.

Until about the time of Einstein, atheists could comfort themselves with the belief that the universe is eternal, and thus did not need a cause.

But since then, five lives of evidence have been discovered that prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the universe did indeed have a beginning. And that beginning was what many scientists now call “The Big Bang.”

The evidence of a “Big Bang” can be easily remembered through the acronym SURGE.

Many magazines run a a cover story about the origin and fate of the universe. “When did the universe begin?” and “When will it end?” are two of the most popular questions investigated in such articles.

The fact that the universe had a beginning and will ultimately die is not even up for debate in these reports. Why? Because modern scientists know that a beginning and an ending are demanded by one of the most validated laws in all of nature – the Second Law of Thermodynamics (S of SURGE).

Personal Reflection:

How does the Second Law of Thermodynamics prove that the universe had a beginning?