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: The Autobiography of Parley Parker Pratt One of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Embracing His Life Ministry and Travels by Pratt Parley P Parley Parker Pratt Parley P Parley Parker Editor - Pratt Parley P. (Parley Pa

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INDEX OF TEXTS 495

INDEX OF SUBJECTS 502

THAT THE UNIVERSE HAD A CREATOR

THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE.

Explanation of the universe, its origin, a Free Force.

The Philosophical Argument. If the universe had not an origin, all events must have occurred before, and this seems incredible. The Scientific Argument. From the process of evolution and the degradation of energy.

THE CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE.

The Single Supernatural Cause, which originated it.

THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE.

Hence the statement that the universe had an origin means that at some time or other it was acted on by such a Free Force; in other words, it has not existed for ever under the fixed and invariable forces of nature, and without any external interference. We have now to consider the two arguments in favour of this, which may be called the Philosophical and the Scientific argument.

We must hence conclude that the universe has not existed for ever under the fixed forces of nature, and without any external interference; in other words, that it had an origin. No doubt there are difficulties in regard to this theory also, but they are mostly due to our ignorance. We may not know, for instance, whether matter itself is eternal. Nor may we know why, if a free force once acted on the universe, it never apparently does so at present, and still less can we picture to ourselves what such a force would be like; though the difficulty here is no greater than that of picturing a force which is not free, say gravity.

And this conclusion is greatly strengthened by two scientific theories now generally accepted--that of the process of evolution and the degradation of energy; both of which seem to show that the universe had a beginning.

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