When scientists investigate complex natural phenomena, they are not content to just naysay ideas that others offer. Rather, they seek for a superior explanation to the data. Only by reconciling the facts into the most plausible hypothesis, is the goal of science fulfilled. Since skeptics habitually dismiss the Bible for, as they charge, "getting the science wrong," they inadvertently set up that standard which they oblige themselves to obey too. Reason indeed demands they identify the specific scientific forces they believe better explain existence than does the God of Genesis 1:1. I urge you to decide this question for yourself. Which view do you judge; theism or atheism, best accounts for the following?
1. The universe had an absolute beginning from out of nothing at the Big Bang (BB). A sizable list of scientific facts establish, as unassailable, the certitude of this event. Yet it is impossible that science could itself be the cause of the universe since, prior to the BB nothing physical existed at all; NOT matter nor energy nor time nor space existed in which scientific processes could exist to create anything. Consequently the BB was not a cause, but the effect of a far greater cause! Notice from the above list of lacks that the BB was instead a sheer miracle! While skeptics assert that quantum tunnelling and gravity are both indicators that matter can just pop into reality from nothing, they fail to grasp that both also began to exist as created entities! So, what can atheists conceivably posit that better explains existence than does the God of Genesis 1:1 who, by His transcending nature,[can simply speak a cosmos into existence (Hebrews 11:3)?
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