With ample evidence discovered by science, the thesis of an
"infinite universe" was tossed onto the scrap-heap of the history of
scientific ideas. Yet, more important questions were forthcoming: what
existed before the Big Bang? What force could have caused the great
explosion that resulted in a universe that did not exist before?
There is a single answer to be given to the question of what
existed before the Big Bang: God, the All-powerful and the Almighty,
Who created the earth and the heavens in great order. Many scientists,
be they believers or not, are obliged to admit this truth. Although
they may decline to admit this fact on scientific platforms, their
confessions in between the lines give them away. Renowned atheist
philosopher Anthony Flew says:
Notoriously, confession is good for the soul. I will therefore begin by confessing that the Stratonician atheist has to be embarrassed by the contemporary cosmological consensus. For
it seems that the cosmologists are providing a scientific proof of what
St. Thomas contended could not be proved philosophically; namely, that
the universe had a beginning. So long as the universe can be
comfortably thought of as being not only without end but also
beginning, it remains easy to urge that its brute existence, and
whatever are found to be its most fundamental features, should be
accepted as the explanatory ultimates. Although I believe that it
remains still correct, it certainly is neither easy nor comfortable to
maintain this position in the face of the Big Bang story.
Some scientists like the British materialist physicist H. P.
Lipson confess that they have to accept the Big Bang theory whether
they want it or not:
If living matter is not, then, caused by the interplay of atoms,
natural forces, and radiation, how has it come into being?… I think,
however, that we must…admit that the only acceptable explanation is creation.
I know that this is anathema to physicists, as indeed it is to me, but
we must not reject that we do not like if the experimental evidence
supports it. (H. P. Lipson, "A Physicist Looks at Evolution", Physics Bulletin, vol. 138, 1980, p. 138).
In conclusion, science points to a single reality whether
materialist scientists like it or not. Matter and time have been
created by a Creator, Who is All-Powerful and Who created the heavens,
the earth and all that is in between: Almighty God.
It is God Who created the seven heavens and of the earth
the same number, the Command descending down through all of them, so
that you might know that God has power over all things and that God
encompasses all things in His knowledge. (Surat at-Talaq: 12 )
