The Birth of the Sun

Aristotle once stated, "It is impossible that movement should ever come into being or cease to be, for it must always have existed. Nor can time come into being or cease to be." Scientists now know better. They say, "Current theories hold that about 5 billion years ago the sun began to form from a huge dark cloud of dust and vapor that included the remnants of earlier stars which had exploded." Other experts tell us that "The Sun was also born in such a cluster, around 4.6 billion years ago, along with thousands of young stars."

So it is well accepted in the scientific community that the sun had a beginning. Here’s my question: Where did the huge dark cloud of dust and vapor that included the remnants of earlier stars come from? It too, must have had a beginning. Who or what created it, shaped it into the sun, and placed it a just the right distance from the earth so that life could begin? To say that the dust and vapor were eternal is to go back to Aristotle’s erroneous belief, which violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics. What is the scientific explanation for where the dust and vapor came from? Atheists don’t have one. Theists do.