Dear Dr. Craig, I hope you're doing well.

An atheist friend sent me the following quotes of physicists who apparently argue that the

BGV theorem does not prove the beginning of the universe. What do you think of these quotes?

In a letter by board, Guth and Velenkin, BGV, it was subsequently argued that inflation cannot likewise be eternal into the past.

Although we have countered this belief and present further evidence that inflation can, in fact,

be eternal into the past in the current work.

Damien A. Eason, Eternal Universes, 2004. The solutions presented necessarily

violated traditional energy conditions within the context of pure general relativity. Although it is

possible, such solutions may exist within non-canonical scalar field theories in a stable way as discussed above.

Again within the context of general relativity, the solutions may suffer from quantum considerations,

as discussed in, leading to the possible exclusion of this class of classical monsters

from the domain of discourse for physically

reasonable scale factors. However, a deeper understanding of quantum gravity is needed to definitively

make such a statement. For the time being, the question of the viability of eternal inflation

and the controversy of the average expansion rate

is far from settled,

leaving many possibilities for future work.

J. E. Lesnevsky,

past completeness of inflationary space times.

2000-23.

Thanks for your help. God bless, Matthew. Thank you for your question,

Matthew. The articles that your friend refers to are by J.E. Lesnevsky, D.A. Eason,

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