Musing of all musings: The Beginning

The Spiritual View

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 

Genesis: 1:1-3 (NIV)

The Materialist View: The Big Bang

The materialists believe that only physical matter is real, with consciousness arising from physical processes. For this group of people, The Big Bang theory is the leading scientific explanation for the origin and evolution of the universe, proposing that the universe began approximately 13.8 billion years ago from an incredibly hot, dense point that rapidly expanded and cooled. 

Key Musing:

What caused the Big Bang?

This idea that the universe created itself out of nothing from a hot dense point in a moment in time runs contrary to the Law of Conservation of Energy, one of the most universal and reliable principles in physics. The belief in a virgin birth of the universe relies on the violation of a basic tenet of physics. This requires a great deal of faith and a convolution of logic to maintain.

What if the Spiritual viewpoint is true even if it goes against everything you’ve learned in academia? What if the universe was created in a moment of time, but what if there was a cause that cannot be explained by the language of physics.

Consider that the creation of the universe in a single point of time would necessarily require a timeless (eternal), powerful, and intelligent mind to create and sustain the universe and everything in it, down to atoms with all the forces of nature in balance that they do not fly apart or collapse together.

In other words, God is the eternal being who created everything in the universe, including mass, energy, time, space. He would have to exist outside of space-time and not be subject to the limitations of space, time, mass, or energy in order to create it.

One way or the other, you pick a cause that you put your faith in. Only one leads to hope and life.