The Cosmological Argument

Science used to be on the side of the atheists, but the Big Bang changed the scoreboard. We now know the universe hasn't always been here—it had a specific birthday. And if it had a beginning, something had to begin it.

Back in the early 1900s, materialists were pretty comfortable. The general scientific assumption was that the universe was eternal. If the universe was always there, you didn't need a God to create it; it just was.

But then came the 1920s. Astronomers discovered the universe is expanding, which led to the Big Bang Theory. Suddenly, the universe wasn't eternal anymore. It had a definite starting point.

This created a massive headache for the materialist worldview:

• You can't get something from nothing.

• Yet, the Big Bang is the moment when everything—matter, energy, space, and even time itself—began.

• The problem is you can’t use the laws of physics to explain where physics came from. You can't matter for causing the Big Bang, because before that moment, matter didn't exist to do the causing.

So, if the universe couldn't create itself, what did?  Since this "Cause" created time, space, and matter, it cannot be those things. Therefore, the Cause must be:

• Timeless (It exists outside of time).

• Spaceless (It isn't confined by the universe).

• Immaterial (It isn't made of physical stuff).

• Incredibly Powerful (It created the cosmos from scratch).

Not a what, but a who. This is the clincher. Why think this cause is a Person, and not a force?

• Impersonal forces are automatic. If you have water and freezing temperatures, you get ice immediately. You don't get ice 500 years later.

• If the cause of the universe was just a timeless force, the universe would have been here forever. The effect would be as eternal as the cause.

• The only thing that can exist outside of time but decide to start something at a specific moment is a person (or an agent). A personal agent can sit in a room for an hour and then choose to stand up.

The Bottom Line The only explanation that checks every box (timeless, spaceless, powerful, immaterial, and a person capable of making a choice) is God. The alternative is believing that the entire universe popped into existence out of nothing, for no reason, goes against every rule of science and reason that we have.