“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” – Declaration of Independence (1776)
When I was younger, they used to teach that everything exists because of The Big Bang Theory. My version of the story may be different from the version you may have heard because the theory keeps changing as parts of it are proven impossible. As I remember it, the idea went something like this – All the planets, stars, atoms, every physical thing in the universe was compressed into an extremely dense ball about the size of a marble. We got this marble because the previous universe collapsed onto itself, amassing an ever-growing gravitational force so immense that it had the power to compress everything into an unimaginable tiny size. I may be ignorant, but I always doubted the math that could compress everything in the universe into the size of a marble, but that is just my thoughts, not all that important to our discussion here.
They taught that this tiny dense ball contained not only all physical matter but all light, all gravity, all energy, everything. All this matter and energy was compressed into such a small space that it eventually reached the point that it could no longer be contained. It exploded with such force that it spread everything outward at immense speeds, hence, the Big Bang. As the matter moved outward it began to decompress into scattered dense clouds of atomic dust. Eventually, gravity caused the dust clouds to compress and form the stars, planets, moons, and all the other celestial objects.
As the stars and planets formed and increased in mass, their gravitational force increased accordingly. The increasing gravity caused the objects to attract while at the same time the continual outward movement from the point of the Big Bang kept the objects moving away from the center. The universe was expanding. Enter the birth of solar systems and galaxies, all held together by gravity but kept apart by motion.
In some unfortunate parts of the universe, the force of attraction has overcome the force of movement, causing everything to slow down and collapse upon itself. These areas are called black holes. So much mass has accumulated inside black holes that the force of gravity has become so strong, not even light can escape. More mass equals more gravity. As these black holes travel through space, they continue to swallow everything within its immense gravitational reach, resulting in an ever increasing mass and gravitational force, until some day, in the distant future, all black holes will combine and create another marble – and the process starts all over again.
I must admit, this story sounded very convincing, very plausible. There are many observable scientific facts to support the idea. Even at the moments in my past when I wanted to believe God created the universe, I thought this theory was unshakable, so, without evidence, I aimlessly professed that He used the Big Bang as part of His creation process.
In January of 2021, bored and sequestered to the house while recovering from a COVID-19 infection, I stumbled upon the YouTube channel “Answers in Genesis”. My initial reaction was, “These guys are crazy”. However, I loved science documentaries and I marginally believed in God, so I kept watching video after video. Eventually it led me to another YouTube channel, “Is Genesis History?”, and from there a few others. Through these scientists, theologians, and other experts, for the first time, I heard plausible views against The Big Bang Theory.
I am not an expert on this science and don’t understand it well enough to be any kind of authority, but basically one argument is that the Big Bang Theory requires all mass and energy must have existed for all eternity, one big bang after another, but over that much time, through laws of thermodynamics, there would be nothing left. When this was brought to light the proponents of the theory either abandoned it or started proclaiming new ideas to save the theory. If there is one thing I have learned over the last few years, every time a concept of one of the evolutionary theories is disproved, the proponents scatter to find a new rescue device and the theory is tweaked and perpetuated. What they will never consider is the Biblical creation event; they cannot afford to give God any standing, it is against their religion.
Putting all the complicated science aside, the best statement I have ever heard to disprove the Big Bang came from a Christian evangelist named Ray Comfort, not a scientist. I don’t know if he heard it elsewhere, but when he meets someone who says they don’t believe in God, instead they believe in science, he often says, “You believe in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything?” This simple statement is deeper than it sounds.
If the Big Bang is real, where did the matter and energy come from in the first place. Maybe the Big Bang could explain the process, but what is the origin. You would have to believe that there was a time when there was absolutely nothing, no atoms, no quarks, no electrons, no energy, no light, no gravity, absolutely nothing! Then, out of this nothingness, abracadabra, the little dense marble and the Big Bang. That would require creation without a Creator. To paraphrase others, “I do not have enough faith to believe in that kind of magic”.
Most scientists have admitted that an infinitely old universe is scientifically impossible. There had to be a beginning to the universe. Most are still unwilling to credit a Creator God, so they dream up other causes. One theory is there was this special vacuum and somehow gravity got introduced and here comes the magic again… Bang! This is just a delay and denial tactic. How could you have gravity without mass? Still doesn’t answer where anything came from. Still demonstrates everything came from nothing and that is supernatural – outside of nature. To me that screams a Creator God.
These challenges to the Big Bang alone were not enough to convince me that there is a Creator God, but in hindsight, these types of discussions did start my journey towards openly rejecting the mainstream ideas intended to cause disbelief. Secular ideas like this are pushed so hard in education, entertainment, and even everyday conversations, that to speak to the contrary usually invites endless ridicule and arguments. It is far easier to keep such opposing opinions to yourself. Many Big Bang believers will invoke the name of science as if they hold some intellectual advantage over the non-believers of their ideas; they counter with arrogance and anger. In my experience, most know very little about the science themselves; they just put their faith and trust in someone who told them so and they stick to the script. However, I no longer cared, ridicule me if you must but I wanted to know the truth. I listened to the experts from both camps and was beginning to lean towards the truth that God is real, and He created everything just as declared in the Bible.
At the end of the day, I had to choose between two religions. One believes that the origin of everything arose from nothing. The other believes that a supreme Deity lives outside of space and time and created everything with His spoken word. Both ideas are beyond our understandings, both are supernatural (outside of science and nature), but only one idea is possible. The notion that everything arose supernaturally, from nothing, without a Creator God, using only the laws of nature, that is impossible and unscientific. The idea of a Creator who is not bound by the laws of nature, a Creator who supernaturally created everything from nothing, including the laws of nature, that is fantastic, that is hard to understand, but that is possible.
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