There is no known natural process that can cause the entire universe to develop in such a manner to cause the entire universe to rotate around a single body. As no natural process is known to cause universal rotation from within the empirical sciences, then it is likely that there is no natural process that can cause universal rotation. In fact, based upon the unlikelihood of a natural cause of universal rotation from within the empirical sciences, we may propose an argument from philosophical reasoning to conclude to the impossibility of a universal, natural cause of rotation only from a cause acting within the universe.
The argument may be proposed thusly -
If there is a rotation of the universe around one point within the universe, then there is a universal rotation. But universal rotation infers there must be a universal cause of rotation. For universal rotation around one point means all parts of the universe rotate with a universally common rotation. But a universally common rotation has a universally common cause. For the rotation is one, and nature is expedient, then from expediency, the cause of rotation is also one.
That common cause of rotation must be a common cause of all parts of the universe that rotate. But as all parts of the universe infer no other relative parts, then a universal cause of rotation is a force without anything to act against. For in accord with Newton's laws, where there is a force, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Yet if there is a universal force acting in all parts of the universe, there are no parts of the universe for the universal force to have an equal and opposite reaction to.*
Just as a man who pushes a car, requires a pavement to push against as the extra part other than the car and the man. So too the universal force requires another thing other than that inside the universe to react to the universal rotating force. But as such parts are logically excluded from the universe (for all parts are also moving with the rotating universe), then there is no natural force within the universe that can cause the universe to rotate. Therefore, because no natural force exists within the universe to rotate the universe, only a cause other than a natural cause can be applied to rotate the universe.
Such a force is from a power that can act without the need for a reactionary force, as required in Newtonian mechanics. But such a situation infers the force is applied within the universe without a nature acting to counter the force. In other words, the rotating force must be applied within the universe from nothing and with no object to provide the reactive force. But to apply a force from nothing, (and without a reactive force) is a force applied only from God, who alone has the infinite power to enact something from nothing. Therefore, as only God can cause the universe to rotate, the rotating universe is not subject to naturalism, but only to supernatural creationism whereby the universe must have been created and then caused to rotate by the creator.
Therefore, where creation is revealed as a truth, the contrary revelation of a rotating universe is a truth found complementary to reason. For reason concludes that a rotating universe is only caused by God. Therefore, because a created universe is only created by God, a created rotating universe may be expected for only a rotating universe may be caused by God. Therefore, rotation points towards a creation event but may not prove** a creation event. And a creation event in turn points to a rotating universe but does not prove the existence of a rotating universe.
Conclusion - Christian divine revelation contains the truth that the universe was created by God and the universe rotates around the Earth once per day. The above discussion shows the compatibility of the creation event with the rotating universe. Reason is then compatible with Divine revelation with respect to the creation of the rotating universe.
*Objection - one may object and say the Earth is stationary, so a cause of rotation has the Earth as an object against which the force of the universe's rotation may act against to conform to Newton's laws.
Response - The Earth is located inside the universe, and outside the volume of the universe's mass that is rotating. The force that causes the universe to rotate cannot act against an object located outside, but only inside the volume of the universe as a body of motion. Therefore the Earth cannot act as an object against which the force of the universe's rotation may act to fulfil Newton's law of equal and opposite reaction. There is no solution to the problem other than a supernatural creator who causes the universe to rotate as from the divine power.
** The rotating universe may in fact be definitive evidence for the creation of the universe. For only a creator could cause the force required to rotate the universe.
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