... must not be." With the possibility that one of the earlier stages (stage 2) of the inductive argument has considerable weaknesses - the latest observation (principle of the conservation of energy) may well show that the previous observations have led us to the wrong conclusion, and therefore the next stages and overall argument are undermined. Leibniz (1646-1716) explained the argument according to the principle of sufficient reason. Assuming that the Big Bang is correct the universe will continue to ... , than the universe depending on an uncaused God. The universe and time cease to exi...

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... there was nothing that lie beyond the Atlantic Ocean. On February 15, 1564, the day that Galileo Galilei was born, everyone in Europe knew that the earth was the stationary center of the universe. Both Aristotle and the Catholic Church approved of this truth, and at the time, it was extremely blasphemous to question either voice. So when Galileo published his Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic ... the Church's perspective of the whole situation. First of all, Catholics of the time were expected to accept anything and everything that the Church considered true without que...

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