Module 5 - The Big Bang and the Kalam Cosmological Argument

When we ask "how old something is", we are saying that

• it has an end

• it began to exist

• it has an age

• All of the answers are correct.

What is the scientific evidence for the beginning of the universe?

• the Big Crunch

• the Big Bang

• There is no scientific evidence.

• None of the answers are correct.

What is the philosophical evidence for the beginning of the universe?

• the Big Bang

• A series of events that stretch back in time could end

• An unending series of events can't end.

• the multiverse

Before the discovery of the Big Bang, what did the scientific community think about the beginning of the universe?

• The universe began to exist.

• The universe always existed.

• The universe had many beginnings and endings.

• All of the answers are incorrect.

Think about the Kalam Cosmological Argument. What word goes in the blank? "The universe ________ to exist

• All of the answers are incorrect.

• is going

• didn't begin

• began

Think about the Kalam Cosmological Argument. What word goes in the blank? "Everything that begins to exist was made to exist by something that _____________"

• began to exist

• did not begin to exist

• is contingent

• None of the answers are correct.

Think about the Kalam Cosmological Argument. What word goes in the blank? "The universe was made to exist by something that _____________."

"

• began to exist

• cannot exist

• did not begin to exist

• is nothing

The Kalam Cosmological Argument is a Quranic idea. Which of the following ayaat express this idea?

• "He is the First and the Last."

• "Say: He is Allah the One."

• "All praise belongs to Allah, Lord of the worlds."

• "Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of humanity."