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The Main Assumptions and created (or emerged) out
Implications of Modern of nothing some billions
Cosmology of years ago.
Concerning the issue at
hand, the main assumptions Although some philosophers
and implications of modern find these assumptions
cosmology can be controversial, most cosmologists
categorized as follows: consider them as plausible
- The universe-as-a- assumptions and implications
whole, to use Smith’s of modern cosmology:
categorizing (1995), is 1. Cosmology is the
true organic unity. study of the structure and
the evolution of the
Accordingly, it is not
the case that if the parts world-as-a-whole. (Rees
of the world are 1998: 53)
explained, the whole of By the world, I mean
the world is explained too. simply everything whose
existential source is the
- Modern cosmology
implies the temporal initial singularity, including
finitude of the universe singularity itself. “Everything”
as a whole. then includes all entities,
their properties and
- The temporal finitude relations with each other,
of the universe implies laws of nature, etc. which
the temporal beginning have appeared since the
of the universe. That is, Big Bang some billions of
our universe has been years ago.
