The Big Bang

In the beginning there was a nothingness; no sound, no light, no matter no nothing, just a big formless void and from this void God created the heavens and the earth. Scientists propose that the universe began from the Big Bang, that microscopic particles known as electrons, protons and neutrons filled the universe, the universe cooled, condensed and stars, planets, solar systems, galaxies and other celestial bodies were formed. It is just like drops of water can make an ocean so also this universe and all celestial bodies can be broken down into tiny, microscopic atoms. And then came life made up of microscopic cells, our body is made up of about 50 to 60 trillion cells. Scientists propose that the universe and life was a random act of nature, that conditions prevailed and the universe and life synthesized. Nature is not local to our planet, but it is the universe itself and if nature created life on Earth, and if nature has the blueprint for creating life forms, then why only Earth and why not other planets? Genesis however tells us that creation has a creator which is God, Genesis describes man as the final creation of God, there has been no more evolution or branches to homo sapiens since we evolved five million years back.   

Today evolution is controlled by humans, we eat what we want and grow what we want, healthcare is available to everyone, we have shrunk forests and polluted the air and water causing serious damage to plant and animal life, there are no more variations, and neither is there a choice to select that which is best suited to survive in this world, the human race is that choice, we are the greatest predators and we decide what we want or do not want. It is written in Genesis that Earth is the garden of Eden where life started and humans are the final entity of creation, maybe someday in the future we would find habitable planets and there will be variations to life forms to adapt to these environments, but the words of Genesis are there for all to see, that God is the creator and the universe and all things in it are his creation. The universe and creation have a unique signature, a oneness, it is not like the universe and life forms were designed by many architects, the fundamental particles and genes are the building blocks of the universe and a parallel. Einstein was obsessed with a unification theory to relativity and quantum mechanics for he believed in a oneness to creation. The search for Genesis 2.0 is ever on and if we do find another life form, you can be assured that it will not be different from what we see on Earth but an adaptation because the creator is one and all of creation are his.   

To understand the big bang, let us do a rewind of the universe from its present state, if we start to condense the universe with its billions upon billions of stars and galaxies and planets and black holes, we can reduce it to a tiny, microscopic atom and the laws of physics as we know it still works to this level of time interval which is 10^-36 seconds after the big bang or 1 divided by 1 followed by 36 zeros of a second!! Beyond this time is the abracadabra nanoseconds when the magical pot of creation was churned with subatomic particles and forces known today as quantum mechanics and then the universe expanded. When the universe expanded, there were so many crucial factors, example matter and antimatter were not of equal parts, if they were, they would have annihilated each other and the result would have been radiation but instead matter and antimatter was asymmetrical resulting in the possibility of all cosmic objects, how was this asymmetry caused if not by celestial intervention? probability?    

Second is the absolute precision in terms of rate of expansion of the universe, if the universe had expanded too slow, then gravity would have pulled everything inside and the universe would have collapsed onto itself, too fast and there would not have been stars, planets and galaxies, the precise rate of expansion coupled with the right amount of matter which existed resulted in the universe we are in today. The events are too precise to assume randomness instead of design, the expansion rate, gravity and many such constants have made it possible for the universe we are in today. Then there are the subatomic particles, the strong and weak forces that exist at the level of atoms which are crucial for the formation of larger atoms and molecules.   

It was like the creator had thought up his creation; he designed the universe, the many different galaxies, solar systems and even our tiny planet Earth. Then he defined the laws of physics which would make life possible on Earth. He packed it all up, compressed it to atomic proportion and let creation take over. Scientists will never agree that the blueprint for the universe was available on atomic scale. Give a scientist a seed and he will dissect it and tell you everything about the seed except that a tree will come out of the seed, and this is science because science cannot identify with an objective to creation, only religion can do that and unfortunately science and religion do not see eye to eye, they disregard each other instead of working together, we need the wisdom of Genesis if we are to progress with the knowledge of science. Religion must be assertive and talk objectives in the language of science for we have come to a point of progress where we need to go beyond morals and ethics, beyond love and compassion. We need to go deeper to explore the gift of consciousness, to give reason for the existence of the cosmos and to work with science.