A GRAND DESIGN FOR A GREAT CREATION
The video
clip Grand Design begins with the
short narration of progress in science, from Aristocus to quantum physics,
emphasizing recent steps toward a “unified theory of everything.” Stephen Hawking,
an astrophysicist, claims that the origin of the universe was governed by the
laws of quantum physics, because in the first moments of Big Bang the universe
was a particle of “quantum” singularity size. Thus, Big Bang is an extremely
unstable event, actually resulting in billions of universes of which ours is
only one. Thus our universe, and it’s incredible fine-tuning that enables human
life, is not really unique at all. He also claims that it is simply
“spontaneous creation” that explains why the universe exists.
I, as a
seminarian, as a philosopher and as a priest-to be, must use my faculty to
think to give a counterattack to their postulates. There are so many reasons to
challenge these claims concerning the universe’s origin. As an explosion from
absolute nothingness ex nihilo to
something incredibly incredible, and still expanding 13.7 billion years later,
the big bang is utterly unlike anything ever observed by quantum physicists. It
seems highly unlikely that the universe’s origin was “governed” by any “laws of
nature”, such as in the Cosmic Cookbook, other than those of the Supreme Maker,
or that the universe and its fine-tuning are anything other than unique. As for
“why” the universe exists, God’s self-revelation in Jesus Christ provides a far
better explanation than “spontaneous creation.”
God is
great. He alone can do great things. Therefore, God creates the great creation—the
universe.
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