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The Big Bang Theory is what scientists use in order to explain the way in which our universe began. The nice thing is that I believe scientists agree with some things in the Genesis record. They may not know it, but they do. Not to diminish the work done by those in the fields of astronomy and physics, but it always tickles me a little bit when somebody makes a "discovery". I know these are smart men and women, and I think the stuff that they bring to light is genuinely cool, but the fact is, they are finally understanding something– a physical law, a material manifestation or concepts—that already existed. I applaud their efforts to understand, but the deal is, it existed already and men finally understood what they were looking at. That doesn’t really make a man smart, necessarily. It does make him capable.

"Discoveries" over the years through science have made it plain that the observable universe did have a beginning. The Big Bang Theory is what science has generally come up with to explain what took place in the moment of beginning, and what has happened ever since. What is hard for many cosmologists to deal with is the fact that the universe came into existence—from nothing. According to the most well-known version of the theory the known universe burst into being as a singularity some thirteen-and-a-half billion years ago.

Singularities, despite being called that are not really thought to be unique. Scientists can’t explain singularities. They don’t know where "they"–plural–came from, but many scientists believe that a singularity exists at the core of black holes. Black holes are believed be an area of unbelievable gravitational pressure. Anything that entered it would be utterly crushed into an object of immeasurable density. This area of such infinite pressure and density are what scientists call a singularity. They believe that the universe began from a singularity, "the" singularity. What scientists cannot explain to their satisfaction is where the singularity came from. Since scientists now believe that a super-massive black hole exists at the center of every galaxy, how many "singularities" are there? I know that just about any scientist reading this would likely scoff or laugh at my logic, but I’m not trying to prove the validity of the Big Bang Theory. I am simply questioning it.

The problem is that most astrophysicists agree that before the Big Bang, there was nothing. Absolutely nothing. No time. No space. No particles. No energy. Nothing. They can’t explain how something came from nothing. If we envision the singularity as an infinitely tiny, dense and hot ball in space that exploded, we are under a misconception. There was not space before the Big Bang, according to those who study the observable data and relate it to their theories. Even if we imagine an unbelievable explosion from nothing, we are under a misconception again. It would be more like a ‘bubble’ expanding and dissipating suddenly, dispersing its contents and having them expand out into the size of the universe as we see it and beyond the capability of our enhanced vision.

I believe something quite different. I suggest that there is no scientific explanation for the beginning of our universe, because the beginning of the universe was a supernatural occurrence. By that I mean that science cannot explain the beginning of the universe because its beginning was not inside the natural realm. I believe as scientists do that before the universe began, there was nothing. Nothing of anything that exists that we can see ourselves. But unlike many scientists, I can accept that God caused the universe to exist. In Isaiah 40:12 we read the words spoken by God’s prophet: