Big bang

For thousands of years, it has been widely believed that divine beings created the Universe around us. Throughout countless civilizations and cultures, accounts of how gods brought everything into existence have been essential aspects of each of their religions. Even in modern day Christianity, the belief that God created the Universe has been strongly held.

However, as science has progressed in our modern age, newly found evidence like the cosmic background radiation and Einstein’s general theory of relativity have indicated that the Universe had not been a creation of god but that of a phenomenon known as the big bang. This is the moment in which the Universe originated from a single point in a spectacular explosion, throwing matter and energy in all directions.

Many problems exist in divine creation. Numerous inconsistencies lie within the accounts of divine creation that cannot be explained by science or logic. Christianity, for example, has a written account of the creati...