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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