TY  - JOUR
TT  - Must Time Have a Beginning?
AU  - Yavuz, Zikri
PY  - 2015
DA  - December
DO  - 10.15745/da.98539
JF  - Dini Araştırmalar
JO  - THE JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS STUDIES
PB  - Motif Yayıncılık
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1301-966X
SP  - 36
EP  - 54
VL  - 18
IS  - 47 (14-12-2015)
KW  - time
KW  - beginning
KW  - big bang
KW  - Swinburne
KW  - Smith
N2  - In the present paper, I would like to discuss whether time itself has a beginning. In the standard Big Bang model, our universe is not in nitely old. This model is supported by several strong lines of evidence.This is probably the most remarkable discovery of modern cosmology. Yet still some philosophers, from some metaphysical considerations, argue that time necessarily has not a beginning. I try to indicate that these a priori arguments are also unsuccessful. It seems to show that scientic discoveries and philosophical considerations are combatible with beginning a time. It is highly possible to follows that time can have a beginning if implications of big bang cosmology are true.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.15745/da.98539
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/222012
ER  -