Proof of Eternity?

The science of the natural world is based on cause and effect.  Time is composed of events and behind each event there is always a direct cause for that event.  This law of cause and effect involves a principle of dependency; everything that happens depends on something else happening first.  If there is no cause, there is no effect.  What we refer to as science is based on the requirement of something always being the result of something else.

How logical is it to believe the law of cause and effect would be violated at the front end of the biggest thing we can see?  If there was no cause that produced the first moment in time (the beginning of the universe) it would be a contradiction of one of the foundational principles of science.  It is difficult to accept the idea that all we can see had no cause.  If there was no cause it means the principle that drives the universe (cause and effect) was not a factor at the moment it began to exist.  But if science is correct about everything else, something cannot be caused by nothing.

With respect to the origin of the universe, the law of cause and effect creates a circular question similar to the riddle concerning chickens and eggs.  If something caused time to begin, something had to exist before the first moment of time.  There may have been another huge block of time that existed before our first moment of time.  It is possible that the time frame we measure had its beginning at the last moment of the preceding time frame.  For discussion purposes let us assume that is the case.  The next question is this:  What caused the preceding block of time to begin?

The question keeps repeating itself.  No matter how many huge blocks of time are strung together, each would have a beginning and an ending.  Each would require a cause that brought it into existence.  The only answer that puts an end to this infinite question is the reality of a timeless state.  And if it is timeless, it is eternal.

If eternity is a reality what would be capable of occupying it?  Only eternal things would require eternity to exist.  The most logical possibility would be God. When the truth of that is accepted we suddenly discover the cause behind the beginning of the universe as we know it.  Some would call that “creation”.