Reflection Paper on "Journey to the Edge of the Universe"

As we have a tour of the cosmos, from Earth's surface to the outermost

reaches of the space, the documentary enlightened us the realities of the universe
and its vastness. Human mind is so limited to comprehend all its richness, beauty
and mystery. Even our horizon is so small even it appears to us as an infinite. But as
I watch the documentary, I am bothered with the question whether the universe in
itself is finite or infinite, since the title stated that there will be a journey the edge
of the universe. Does the universe have an edge?

Furthermore, in that video, it appears to me that the universe is infinite, as it

coexists with the space and time, which they themselves I consider as infinite also.
Its vastness is so incalculable that even the human type of measurement would not
suffice. And still there would be a question on whether is that all? Or maybe there
are still mysteries yet to be unlocked. Thus, with the presupposition that there still
are, it is really logical to conclude that the universe in itself in infinite. That maybe
the vastness that the documentary presented is only one percent of the wholeness
of the universe itself. The universe together with space and time, are all infinite,
for it is extending in a great speed in an unimaginable vastness of space. Just like
what Aristotle had said, its extension in space and time is ad infinitum. Thus its
divisibility is also ad infinitum.
 However, in a closer look, are space, time and universe infinite? Just like
what Aristotle had said or it is finite just like what Leibnitz has claimed? I would
support the later.

Yes, it seems that the universe, with its extension on space and time, is
infinite. But according to Leibniz, it is only virtual but not actual. For him,
everything has an end, even space and time. Even though we have not yet reached
its end but it does not mean
that it does not have, for it really has. Our own perspective is so limited because our
mind is limited also, that it cannot even grasp the finiteness of universe, and thus we
tend only to believe that this is infinite. But the concept of human mind with regards
to the infiniteness of the universe, time and space, is only a finitude in their reality
and actuality. Or in a layman's term, infiniteness is only virtual but not actual. Or in
summarize, everything is finite.

So I can see that despite of the enormity that I have seen in the documentary,
I would still believe that it is all finite that its extension will all come to an end even it
divisibility.

Hence, if all is finite, is there something infinite? Something that has no

beginning or end? Or maybe that which is the end in itself? Yes. There is. God.

All the beauty that is shown in the video, all its mystery and complexity of
interaction, all that has no other author but God himself. The universe, time and
space is really an actual proof of the existence of God. As what St. Thomas Aquinas
has articulated in his third and fifth prove in the existence of God. In his third
argument, which is the argument from contingency, it says that we could see all
things in the universe as contingent, or finite. All that are possible to be and possible
not to be. In other words, perishable things. But if everything were contingent and
thus capable of going out of existence, then, nothing would exist now. But things
clearly do exist now. Therefore, there must be something that is imperishable: a
necessary being. This everyone understands to be God.

Also in St. Thomas Aquinas teleological proof, which he would say that all
things have an end and this end in no other than God. This proof is also considered
as design argument. That the universe is designed beautifully and has a purpose.
And it is designed; it comes from a designer which is no other than God.
All things comes from God and end in God.