It is true that religion and science aren’t always viewed as compatible, and the idea that they have nothing to do with each other isn’t that uncommon. However, for a religion that claims to be an objectively true explanation of reality, science and religion must be two sides of the same coin. Christian apologetics is an attempt to demonstrate that the Christian worldview makes sense not only as a spiritual explanation, but as a philosophically and scientifically accurate understanding of the universe. Mormonism also presents itself as an objectively true religion and should, therefore, offers ways to understand it within the context of science and philosophy. Part of the way the LDS church does this today is through the organization, FARMS (Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies), which serves the research and publish scholarly analyses of the Book of Mormon, the Bible, early Christian history, and ancient temples. Other scholars, as well, have defended the LDS church as Mormon apologists, contending for the …show more content…
The steady-state model presents the universe as having always existed in the same state. While there are many problems with this theory, the most significant one is that of the universe’s background microwave radiation. This illustrates that the universe was once very hot and dense. If the steady-state model were true the universe would have been the same from eternity and would not be less and hot and dense now than it was in the past. The oscillating model, on the other hand, theorizes a universe which repeatedly expand and collapses in an infinite cycle. But this theory is impossible because 1) the universe is open, meaning that expansion will never stop but just continue forever, and 2) there is no known physics which makes it possible for the universe to oscillate into a new expansion, it is only theoretically