By Mesha Oh
Have you ever stopped to reflect on the creation of the universe? While earlier, atheists might have commonly argued that the universe was eternal, and, therefore, uncreated and that, hence, there was no need at all to postulate a Creator for it, modern science has concluded that the universe indeed came into being—around a couple of billion years ago. That probably means that the universe did not exist before that and that, therefore, it was created. The discovery that the universe does indeed have a definite beginning is clear evidence for the fact that there must be some Power or Being that is beyond the universe and that existed prior to the universe that brought the universe into being. This is convincing proof for the existence of the Creator God.
Today, many scientists believe in the Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe. According to this theory, there was a ‘Big Bang’ which caused the universe to come into being, and that subsequently, the universe kept expanding, and it still does. They believe that everything in the universe, including you and me, ultimately came out from this ‘Big Bang’.
Now, I have no idea about the veracity of the Big Bang theory (it is still a theory and not a confirmed fact), but suppose, for the sake of argument, that there was indeed a ‘Big Bang’ which caused the universe to come into being. The question is, ‘Who caused the Big Bang to happen?’ Advocates of the Big Bang theory have no single answer to this question. Some atheists among them might say, ‘Well, Nature caused the Big Bang’. But then, that is only pushing the mystery one step further back: ‘Who caused Nature?’
Assuming for the moment the Big Bang to be correct, the only convincing answer or explanation is that there must be a Power or Being beyond the universe that caused the Big Bang to happen (if indeed it did) and for Nature to come into being. That Power or Being is what or who is called ‘God’.
There is another explanation for the creation of the universe that many people believe in—the Darwinian theory. According to this theory, human beings are descended from apes. That is how human beings came into being, advocates of this theory say. If, for the sake of argument, we accept this claim as true, the question arises, ‘Where did the apes come from?’ If someone answers, ‘They came from the penguins’, the question arises, ‘And where did the penguins come from?’. They may reply, ‘They came from the dinosaurs’…and so on and so forth till one may arrive at the smallest single-celled creature, before which, for the sake of argument, let us assume there was no other life-form. Now, the question arises, ‘Where did this tiny creature come from?’ Atheists have no convincing answer to this question. Claims that this supposedly first or ‘primitive’ life-form just happened by chance, on its own, or through some random, unplanned, accidental mixture of chemicals are completely unfounded, illogical and unsustainable.
‘Where did the tree come from?’ we may ask. ‘It came from the seed’, we may answer. ‘And where did the seed come from?’ we may further query. ‘It came from the tree,’ we may reply. Where did the chicken come from? The egg. And where did the egg come from? The chicken. And so on and on we go, round and round in circles, in speculating about how things came into being without coming to any convincing answer.
So, then, how did creation actually come about? There is only one convincing answer:
The entire creation (including you and me) came about by Divine Will.
There is no doubt that there is a Power or Being that caused the entire creation and that sustains it. And that Power or Being is what or who we call God.
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