Ex nihilo nihil fit (out of nothing, nothing comes)
1. Most people believe the universe began in a 'big bang.'
2. To believe the physical universe popped into existence in a big explosion ignores the question, "WHAT exploded and WHY did it explode?" Plus, it attributes creative, designing, organizing intelligence to A BIG EXPLOSION (look at photos of a plane crash to see how orderly explosions are).
3. Since no explosion can create order, a 'big bang' could not have created our universe. That means something else created it.
4. Which points to the biggest unanswered question of all: Where did it come from?
5. To say, "The universe is eternal" or "It has always existed" is evasive non-sense. Because the universe (and everything in it, including us) can be observed to be gradually winding down and falling apart, an 'eternal' universe would have long ago disintegrated and ceased to exist. So the "eternal universe" answer is a dodge that tries (unsuccessfully) to sidestep the relentless question of HOW the universe got here in the first place.
6. To believe notions of universal eternality or explosive self-creation, one must reject logic, rationality and the evidence of the five senses. It denies reality, which is just as insane as believing our universe isn't really there at all.
II. THAT THE UNIVERSE (a) CANNOT HAVE CREATED ITSELF, (b) CANNOT BE ETERNAL, AND (c) SHOWS COUNTLESS UNMISTAKABLE SIGNS OF PAINSTAKING, DELIBERATE PLANNING PROVES THAT SOMEONE MADE IT.
Whoever created the universe would have to exist before, above, beyond, outside of and independent of the universe. There is only one Being who fits that description.
"The whole universe needs a Cause beyond it that does not change. God is the unchanging Cause of all that changes." Norman Geisler
