Dr. (Richard) Dawkins, Just One Question!

“Ever since the creation His invisible nature, namely His eternal power and deity has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made.  So they are without excuse.”  (Romans 1:20)

A copy of this posting has been sent to the Richard Dawkins Foundation

“Dr. Dawkins, time and time again, both across the airwaves and in print, you have defined faith as belief in absence of evidence.  Just this past week I heard you state very closely to the effect that “religious faith is the denial of evidence.”  Now I consider your attempted definition of faith to be its own example of belief without evidence for the simple reason that your assertions on faith can easily be demonstrated to be false.  Be that as it may, my single question to you, in the form of a request, is, by your own “scientific” criteria would you please provide us with a scientific accounting of the beginning  and existence of the universe in light of the accumulated insights of Big Bang cosmology?  Since the retracing of the history of the expansion of the universe points astronomers back to an absolute beginning of the universe out of nothing, the Big Bang cannot scientifically be employed as a potential cause of that beginning.  It is rather the effect of a completely different (transcendent?) cause.  Einstein’s repeatedly and rigorously tested discovery, his General Theory of Relativity, points to the reality that all of matter, energy, space, and time came to existence out of this “'zero-volume' singularity” (Stephen Hawking).  So neither matter nor energy as entities, nor space as a spatial arena, nor time to provide the possibility of duration, were yet in existence so as to provide even a potential scientific cause for the existence of the universe.  I repeat then, what scientific answer do you propose as an explanation for the beginning of the cosmos that you can claim to be superior to the Christian belief that “in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”?