Snap, Crackle, Pop

The creation of the universe is often debated in scientific and religious circles.

It is a difficult subject to wrap one's mind around so this post is a but larger than my last.

If a religious person, such as myself, were to suggest before a person of science that an almighty being simply spoke it into existence I would surely be scoffed and mocked. But what do "they" say?

There are several theories about the universe. There is the old "steady state" theory, that the universe always was and always will be. But this theory did not seem to explain the apparent expanding motion of the galaxies and galactic clusters.

Steady state was replaced by the "Big Bang" theory (which I'd like to note was actually posited by a Catholic Priest who was also a scientist - it was not accepted by much of the scientific community at the time simply because it WAS the brainchild of religious person). The big bang theory has the advantage of being "heard" by radio telescopes around the globe. It would seem to indicate a high energy event that occurred sometime in the past that runs in conjunction with the expansion of our universe.

The big bang is not the creation of the universe but the result of the creation of the universe. The big bang is the sudden and vast expansion** of all energy and, eventually, matter (as the universe cooled and force could split and energy could "condense" into matter - so to speak).

What CAUSED this big bang is the moment of creation (if it is even believable or not) and it ties back to my third paragraph about it being spoken into existence.

Scientists do not know. They have no clue. They will admit they don't know but quickly move to "but we know it had to have happened because we are now all evidence of this event!"

There are some theories of course. One is that the universe was compacted into the size of a pinhead and something happened to destabilize it and *BOOM*! Another theory is that there are many parallel dimensional planes and that if two of them where to somehow bump into each other, at that point a universe would be created. Whoa. I am sure there are many more "fringe" scientific explanations.

It's a heck of a lot easier (and to me more believable) to say "God made it." Why is it so hard to believe in God? Why is it harder to believe in the divine and easier to believe in mortal theories that can never be proven?

I know I cannot prove that God exists... but neither can you prove that the universe was created by some sort of complex mathematical accident.

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** Scientists have found that the universe has expanded far more than it should have based on their estimate of its age. Some scientists explain it by a suspension or absence of the laws of physics during the initial "explosion" because all the known forces were unified, therefore allowing the universe to expand at a rate far greater than the speed of light.

We are alone

We are alone in this universe, unimaginably vast as it is.

Life is a gift. It is creation. This universe was created by an all-powerful being I refer to as "God." Evolution is accepted as fact in most scientific circles, taught in school, etc. But it has never been proven and there is only circumstantial evidence that supports this theory. Scientists will tell you "we have created the essential building blocks for life in our laboratory!" But what they don't mention is that none of those blocks have ever mutated and begun forming complex, self-replicating, molecular chains. And it won't happen. If you ask how they might have formed, under what conditions, the answer will be a cop-out: the conditions of the ancient Earth and over a billion years of chance molecular billiards. In other words it cannot be proven.

Scientists enjoy their own leap of faith when it comes to evolution, allow me mine.