One of the most foundational truths of science is that everything that begins to exist has a cause. To put it another way, nothing comes into existence without someone or something causing it. Children and adults alike are aware of this. When everyone is asleep and they are awakened by a loud banging noise, the normal response is, "What was that?" When this happens in our home, my husband (or, if he is out of town, I and my baseball bat and my 70-lb. dog) gets up to check it out because we know full well that the bang did not cause itself. More trusting individuals might respond, "I'm sure it's no big deal. It's probably just the cat." But no one in their right mind says, "Oh, I'm sure the loud bang caused itself" or "I'm sure the loud noise was caused by absolutely nothing at all." Everything that begins to exist has a cause, including bangs and explosions.

What the Big Bang Theory posits is that the universe began to exist in an instantaneous explosion that generated all matter from which our universe, galaxies, and planets were formed. Prior to this explosion, absolutely nothing material existed. Furthermore, Einstein's General Theory of Relativity confirms that time, space, and matter all came into being at the same time. So if the Big Bang Theory is correct, then prior to that enormous, powerful explosion, there was no time, no space, and no matter.

Let's think about that. If the universe began to exist, as opposed to having been here for all eternity past, then there must have been a cause. When there is literally nothing to explode (not even space or matter), explosions don't occur. Furthermore, that cause must have been timeless, spaceless, immaterial, extremely powerful, and personal (in order to choose to cause something rather than nothing). Who or what can you think of that can be described in such terms? Sounds a lot like God to me. In fact, many agnostic and atheist scientists have admitted that there could hardly be a scientific explanation that better aligns with Genesis 1 than the Big Bang Theory.

To argue that no one and nothing caused the Big Bang is foolishness, even to a child, but to argue that the timeless, spaceless, immaterial, personal, omnipotent God caused the Big Bang fits the scientific evidence perfectly. Evidence for the Big Bang is very strong evidence for God.