“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
During the last decade cosmology/astronomy has become increasingly friendly to the Creator model. Discoveries about the origin of the Big Bang as well as the requirements for life on a planet like earth reveal more and more the hand of a Creator and make it less and less likely this could all have happened by mere chance. This chapter will investigate the possible cause of the Big Bang and the fine tuning of the universe towards life.
☼ Exhibit #1: How Could the Big Bang Happen?
The scientific community has made a lot of claims that 15-20 billion years ago some hard-to-define event, the Big Bang, started time, gave us spatial dimensions (length, width, height) and initiated the universe. Over time this model has been refined to explain how subsequently stars and galaxies, our own galaxy the Milky Way, our solar system, and our home planet earth were formed.
However, it intrigues me how little attention is given to the question: why did this Big Bang happen? How could it happen? Before the Big Bang there was nothing; no time/space, no universe, no energy, no matter. Then boom, suddenly all the energy and matter required to develop into our universe “pops” into existence. How can that be?
Assuming this would happen independently of an outside force such as a Creator directly violates one of the best proved and observed natural laws of science: the law of preservation of energy (or matter), technically known as the
First Law of Thermodynamics. This principle states:
“Within a closed system, during any transformation the net energy increase or decrease is zero.”
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