“By faith we understand
that the world [aeons
in Greek] was fashioned by the command of
God...” (Hebrews 11:3-RSV)
In light of the second paragraph from the top, above (prev. blog), scientific processes require 1) space as an arena in which work is performed, 2) time through which material processes are carried on, and both 3) matter and 4) energy—all four of the entities which Einstein’s General Theory states had an absolute beginning at the Big Bang. From time to time scientific literature will include claims that either this natural processes or that one, can account for the existence of the cosmos. The most famous example is the thesis of the book, The Grand Design, by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow (Bantam, 2010). Yet in the end none of these claims can ever conceivably (pun intended) be true. Consider John Lennox’ (mathematician and philosopher of science at Oxford University) devastating critique of The Grand Design, which I reference in endnote 1 of “The Prints are Everywhere,” cited above. Every “scientific” claim to being able to account for the beginning of the cosmos is utterly wanting in all four categories described just above. In sum, there is neither space nor time nor matter nor energy with which to bring into existence anything at all.
In search for the agent who indeed does account for the
beginning and existence of all things there is (and must be) but one rational option.
That is, the eternal, self-existent, transcendent, all-powerful, and
intelligent God of the Holy Bible who brought the entire universe into existence by His
purposeful command (Hebrews 11:3).
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