Why there was a “Beginning” is still a mystery. Religious leaders claim God, for His own reasons, decided the moment was right for Him to create the universe, life on Earth, and Man in His own image. Many theologians say it is unimportant when God began His Creation, only that He did. Others, however, insist God accomplished His creation less than 10,000 years ago; they require their parishioners to ignore, confront, and deny any scientific evidence that proves otherwise. Even some universities that award “academic degrees” require their professors to teach The Young Earth Theory. I presume the reason why the timing of “The Beginning” is so important to them is because a literal interpretation of Genesis would lead you to conclude that Earth is less than 10,000 years old and the Bible is God’s infallible word, is it not? If the timing of “The Beginning” is wrong, what else might be?

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There are several competing scientific hypotheses that attempt to explain how our universe got here, and its ultimate fate. An increasingly popular one suggests our natural universe is eternally here because there is no other place for substantive particles to be. We can never know if a supernatural world exists or not, but even if it does anything having substance (energy or matter), by definition, cannot enter it. Although some physicists think some sub-atomic particles sometimes pop into and out of existence, they know they are still here while in their “non-existent” undetectable phase because they can be detected when they pop into their “existing” one.

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The natural world is a physical structure of time and space, containing matter and energy, that is governed by the laws of physics. Physicists know it is physical because Albert Einstein proved its components can be physically distorted by gravity, and the distortions can be measured. Scientists tell us that around 14 billion years ago our natural world came into existence with a Big Bang.

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