In my previous post, I began a discussion about the “God who is.” Until the early 1900s, every scientist believed that the universe was timeless or eternal. That was a convenient scientific “truth” because it provided some comfort to atheists who wanted to reject the God who is. In those days, scientists reasoned that if the universe had always existed, then, God could not have created it because the universe was also eternal. In these scientists’ minds, if God existed, he was not greater than the universe because they were co-eternal entities. An eternal universe was an essential element for the survival of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Darwin, and all evolutionists, believe that if given enough time the theory of evolution would become a viable explanation for the origin of life. 

Darwin’s problem, and the problem of every evolutionist, is that there are five elements in the human experience that cannot be explained through or by time: life, reason, consciousness, design, and purpose. There is nothing in the theory of evolution that can even come close to explaining the emergence of life on earth. The “prehistoric soup” baloney does not even explain how the soup developed. What is worse, how come there is no more soup today? Anyway, as I discussed in an earlier post, spontaneous generation, the concept that life just can spring up from nothing, has been debunked for more than two centuries. Since all the other elements of the human experience flow from life, evolution has nothing to say about them because they cannot even explain the first very first principle, which is life itself.

The accepted wisdom was that the universe simply was timeless. This “truth” persisted until 1919 when Edwin Hubble made the most astounding discovery to that date. He discovered that the universe was expanding. In 1927 a Belgian Catholic priest, Father Georges Lemaitre took Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity and proved conclusively that the universe was indeed expanding.[1] Einstein did not like the idea of an expanding universe because it “smacked as a religion, not science.”[2] Einstein knew that an expanding universe meant a finite universe, and a finite universe meant a universe with a beginning. And he knew that if the universe had a beginning, then, obviously someone must have designed it, created it, and set it in motion. And for Einstein, that was too close to the God of the Bible.

Logically, Father Lemaitre reasoned that if the universe was expanding, then, it was a point in time in which it began to expand. If you reverse the rate of expansion to its origin, logically, you could reach the point of the beginning of the universe. His calculations were the precursor of the “big bang theory,” which in essence established that the universe was not eternal because it had a beginning.

As the reader can ascertain, the big bang theory sent evolutionists into a panic. Since the universe is not timeless, they lost the leverage of time to explain the enormous amount of time needed to explain their evolutionary theory. They had put all their eggs in the timeless universe basket to explain Darwinian evolution, but that option, my friends, has been gone since 1919. Evolutionists are still pushing their debunked theory, but they no longer have the luxury of using unlimited time as their friend. Whatever evolution might have taken place in this universe must now be crunched into a very specific timeframe—13.87 billion years. But, in order to accommodate the millions upon millions of species, that required trillions upon trillions of mutations, within that timeframe is simply laughable. It would probably be easier to believe that I can fire rifle from one end of the universe to the other end of the universe and hit a coin the size of a dime than to believe that evolution is true. And yet here we are.

But now that we know the universe is both expanding and finite, this is the “bottom line issue…” A finite, blind, unconscious, and purposeless universe is not the answer to its own existence, evolution, and life, or anything else for that matter. The universe is a machine without the properties required to explain the experience of human life on earth.

The universe is the greatest, largest, and the closest thing we can find that resembles eternity, and previous generations assumed that it was eternal, but now we know that isn’t. Now we know there is something or someone greater than the universe. That something or someone who is greater than the universe must be God who is. Since the universe came into existence at a specific point in time, it follows that something or someone existed before the universe. The question we must ask is, who could have created the universe?

Please note that I did not ask “what,” but “who.” The distinction is significant. Based on what we know of human consciousness, the creator of the universe must have a greater consciousness than man. Additionally, whoever created the universe must be a spiritual being because it has a greater lifespan than the universe. Only a pure spirit can be eternal. As long as the scientists believed the universe was timeless, the question was what created life. But now we know that inanimate finite objects, regardless of their size and age, cannot produce life, the question moves from what produced life on earth to who created life on earth. In order for life to have been created, whoever created the universe must have at least the following characteristics: must have life, must be eternal, must be all-powerful, possess unlimited intelligence, must be a spirit, and must be personal. I know these descriptions sound exactly like the God described in the Bible as the God who is, but the fact is that the Bible has the most viable explanation for everything that exists. In my next post, I will explain the reasons I have to believe that the creator of the universe must have these qualities. (To be continued…)