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
existedbefore 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 thistruth. Although
they maydecline to admit this facton 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 couldnot 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 itremains still
correct, it certainly is neither easy nor comfortable to maintain this
position in the face of the Big Bang story. ( Henry Margenau, Roy
Abraham Vargesse, Cosmos, Bios, Theos, La Salla IL : Open Court
Publishing, 1992, p. 241 ).
Some scientists like the British materialist physicist H. P. Lipson
confess that they have toaccept 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, theearth 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 overall things and that God encompasses
all things in His knowledge. (Surat at-Talaq: 12)
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