"The existence of objective moral values"? Where do they exist? What are they made of? "Philosophy shows you cannot have an actual infinite past" How does it do that? How does DNA or physics indicate an "intelligent, personal source"? In what way does the second law of thermodynamics point to a beginning? The Big Bang and 2nd law of thermodynamics are not "scientific evidence", but rather theories to explain actual scientific evidence (eg galaxies drifting apart or heat radiating from a hotter to a colder region). That actual scientific evidence does little to prove that there was a definite beginning. If things are spreading apart now, then in the past they were probably closer together, but this does not show that if you just extrapolate all the way back to when everything was (presumably) really close together that nothing happened before this moment or that this moment ever actually occurred.

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On objective moral values, they’re not physical things, just like numbers or logic aren’t made of matter. They’re real, but they’re grounded in the nature of God, not in human opinion. That’s why things like murder or injustice are wrong no matter what culture you live in. On an infinite past, you can’t actually get to today if there’s an infinite number of days before it. You can have a “potential infinite,” like counting forward forever, but not a completed infinite you’ve already crossed. On DNA and physics, DNA is loaded with information, like a software code, and information always comes from a mind. Physics shows the universe is fine-tuned in ways so exact that blind chance is incredibly unlikely, which points to intelligence behind it. On the second law of thermodynamics, the universe is running out of usable energy. If it had always been here, it would have run out already, which means it had a starting point. On the Big Bang, yes, it’s a model to explain things like galaxies moving apart and the cosmic background radiation. But when you put those observations together with the second law and the fact there’s no good evidence for a past-eternal steady state, the simplest explanation is that the universe had a beginning.