Reply To: Okay, Nerdy Keith, I'll bite: Why would someone be a deist?
I’m not so sure if we can ever be at a point to say “Ok the universe is done now”. I believe it is an ongoing process.
It certainly appears that this universe is in a runaway expansion, expanding faster and faster, so the ultimate perfection of the universe would seem to be when it more or less stops existing by suffering a temperature death, which will happen an unimaginably long time after conditions for life have ceased everywhere in the universe, so many years in the future that the number of years will exceed the number of atoms in the universe, if Cosmologist Brian Cox is right.
And long before the temperature death, what galaxies remain will be so far away from each other that they won’t be able to see each other.
