First Cause and the Big Bang

There are many clues to the existence of a creator.  I have chosen to examine these four:

·      First Cause

·      Fine Tuning

·      Regularity of Nature

·      Love and Beauty

Everything we know in this world is “contingent,” has a cause outside of itself. Therefore, the universe, would itself have to be dependent on some cause outside of itself.

Atheists previously dismissed the first cause clue by asserting that the universe has always existed. Ironically, science demolished that rationalization (which is all it was) by showing it is far more likely that the universe originated with the Big Bang. Consequently, something had to initiate the Big Bang. The distinguished scientist, Francis Collins writes, “Fifteen billion years ago, the universe began with an unimaginably bright flash of energy from an infinitesimally small point.  That implies that before that, there was nothing.  I can’t imagine how nature, in this case the universe, could have created itself.  And the very fact that the universe had a beginning implies that someone was able to begin it. And it seems to me that had to be outside of nature.” 

This is the same point Thomas Aquinas made in his presentation of The Second Way: Argument from Efficient Causes.

Our second clue that there is a creator God is referred to as the Anthropic Principle or Fine-tuning.

More on Fine-Tuning next time.  In Christ…