Since the beginning of time philosophers and scholars have contemplated the origin of the universe. Ancients such as Anaximander, a Greek philosopher, attempted to explain the structure of the universe and how we came to inhabit our planet. In recent times the Big Bang Theory has been such an attempt.

With an increase in knowledge, new calculations were made by mathematicians, philosophers and cosmologists. Best known for this is Albert Einstein and his Theory of Relativity. His thoughts originally were that the universe was static, was eternal. His calculations, however, led him to conclude that the universe had a beginning, not something he was pleased with.

Many scholars today, interested in this complex topic, are in agreement with what Einstein, and many others like him have concluded.

The origin of the term “Big Bang” came to be because of a comment made by the astronomer Fred Hoyl in 1949.

The perplexing question is how did the Big Bang happen about 14 billion years ago? Those that accept the Big Bang Theory propose that a very tiny sphere with infinite intensity, heat and energy, called a “singularity”, instantly expanded and resulted in the formation of our universe. All this happened in a matter of seconds.

A graphic representation of the Big Bang is available on the web. Enter Big Bang on a search engine to view it.

If one concurs with the Big Bang Theory, and currently most scholars do, then a decision must be made. Either no-one created something out of nothing or someone created something out of nothing (a supernatural view).

Some thinkers have put forward proposals that the Big Bang, for example, was created by some sort of “mathematical points” or by some “positive and negative energy”, etc. But these kind of ideas are not in keeping with the Big Bang because these are something and not nothing.

One of the fundamental premises of science is for anything to happen there must be a cause. Atheism can not explain how matter, time and space, came into existence without a cause. That a supernatural force was the cause then becomes plausible.

Today, Science and Philosophy and Theology are not mutually exclusive.

Many World Religions have teachings about how the universe came to be. But some of these teachings pose some serious difficulty. Given there are so many belief systems, it could be that one of them is true. But which one?

The next blog will consider and compare the main World Religions to determine which are plausible.

Basic to all these religions is the question of what happens at the time of death. How we got here by means of a creation and where to, after we expire, is a crucial question to be considered in the next blog.

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