Should you still be interested, let’s start with Physics. Please don’t be scared off.

But, first, I need to bring back to these pages my friend, Gary, who is rather an interesting man.

By training he was (he’s now retired) a high energy physicist. What that really means is that he was a Ph.D. working with huge machines that basically recreated the conditions of the sun in a laboratory. Now, when I mean “huge machine,” I mean just that. The machine and the support system that allowed it to function occupied large buildings that would just as easily have housed jet aircraft, I suppose. In any event, what they were trying to do is something called “fusion” science (the atomic reaction in our sun as opposed to our normal “fission” nuclear reactors.) In essence, they were looking at particles smaller than any of us can imagine to see how they function and why that’s important.

While he was not alone as a Christian in his field, he was in a small minority. Through his observations as well as other experiences, Gary recognized design as behind reality.

In the late 1920s, the astronomer Edwin Hubble (yes, that Hubble after which our first large space telescope was named) announced that he’d confirmed that the universe was actually expanding and doing so in every direction at the same rate. In other words, every celestial object was moving away from every other celestial object. Viewed on a grand scale, this meant that all of the hundreds of billions of galaxies are each regularly moving apart from one another as if a balloon had them imprinted all of them on its surface and was being systematically inflated. You get the picture.

He proved this by observing what has been called the red shift. Look it up if you’d like. It’s never been disproven and, in fact, led the way forward both in exposing the mistaken view that we are in a steady state and in leading us backward in time to an actual beginning. This scientific viewpoint has received no real counterargument. Einstein gladly admitted its truth and stated that it neatly aligned with his theory of General Relativity (too complicated to unpack here).

Well, it was quickly understood that, if the universe is consistently expanding (and our increasingly advanced telescopes were able to confirm this), then we can put our lenses on reverse and look backwards. Kind of like rewinding the clock, observing as the numbers proceed accordingly. Larger and larger telescopes, enhanced through all sorts of new and exciting technologies, were eventually able to look backwards in time to the earliest moments in our universe, about 14 billion years ago.

While you may know what comes next, we have to realize what a big deal this was.

As much as I’ve studied this (and I’ve studied it a whole lot), my mind staggers at what has been discovered.

You see, without any alternative viewpoint, virtually all scientists now understand that all matter and energy in the universe can be traced back to single moment before which there was neither matter, energy, time or space. I wrote about this recently.

And, then, something happened and existence came into existence. We call that event, somewhat inexactly, The Big Bang. (Of course, there was no “bang” because there was no sound but what actually happened, I guess, closely resembles an explosion of epic proportions!)

This immediately created all sorts of confusion in the broader scientific community. Without going into detail (I’ve found it fascinating as I’ve studied the evolution of the philosophy of science), the dominant view shifted to the point that there was really no longer a question of when the universe originated but of how and why.

In essence, something came out of nothing. Again, something (really all of the stuff in the universe and there is a whole lot of stuff, won’t you agree?) came out of nothing. Zero. At least that was what was being proposed.

Of course, alternative explanations have cropped up, including that the universe is constantly expanding until gravity takes over and it contracts down to “almost” nothing before it “blows up again.” (This is no longer taken seriously.) And, then, we later get the multiverse and string theories, each of which is the search by scientists to find some possible explanation other than there was a creative Intelligence behind the beginning.

In essence, their work starts with the grand assumption that there is no Creator or God, so there must be another explanation. Unfortunately, for them, they have found no evidence to support such conjecture. They’re hunting, while simultaneously trying to circumvent evidence to support a creative intelligence behind it all. Because to do so will not only open a door in the wall but, perhaps, a fatal crack in the entire edifice.

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis 1:1

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” John 1:1

At this point, one can see some overlap between the theory and understanding of the Big Bang and two of the most well-known verses in scripture, the first at the beginning of the Old Testament and the second at the beginning of the Gospel of John in the New Testament.

But, for our purposes, we’ve only just begun and, perhaps the most amazing thing has yet to be mentioned.