In order to maintain their conviction that there is no God, atheists and evolutionists must necessarily believe that nothing created or produced everything. But this is both illogical and scientifically impossible. Yet they pride themselves on being intelligent and rational.
Atheists must answer this question first
One of the main arguments the Bible uses for God’s existence is the existence of the universe itself: “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” (Rom. 1:20). The fact that the universe exists proves the existence of God. It is really that simple.
Until atheists and evolutionists can rationally and scientifically explain how nothing created everything, then anything else they propose does not even matter. Why should they talk about natural selection, fossil records, transitional forms, genetic mutations, and vestigial organs if they cannot answer this fundamental question? They are already defeated before they even start.
Really the burden of proof is not on Christians to prove God exists; the universe itself already proves this. The burden is on atheists and evolutionists to prove God does not exist. They must answer this question first. Now some claim the universe is eternal and therefore not created but science has proven this false.
Science has proven the universe is not eternal
From the popular website GotQuestions.org, here are five proofs that the universe is not eternal:
(1) The universe is running down, and something that is running down must have started at some point. The second law of thermodynamics states that the universe is running out of usable energy and if you doubt this, look in the mirror (you’re aging and running down just like everything else).
(2) The universe is expanding. This was confirmed through the Hubble telescope many years ago, and it is interesting to note that the universe is expanding from a single point, meaning the entire universe could be contracted back into a single point. Also note that the universe is not expanding into space, but space itself is expanding.
(3) The radiation echo was discovered by Bell Labs scientists in 1965. What is it? It is the heat afterglow from the Big Bang. Its discovery dealt a death blow to any theory of the universe being in a steady state because it shows instead that the universe exploded.
(4) Galaxy Seeds. If the Big Bang (first there was nothing, then BANG, something came into being) was true, then scientists believed that temperature “ripples” should exist out in space, and it would be these ripples that would be the enabler for matter to collect into galaxies. To discover whether this is true, the Cosmic Background Explorer – COBE – was launched in 1989 to find them, with the findings being released in 1992. What COBE found was perfect/precise ripples that, sure enough, enable galaxies to form. So critical and spectacular was this finding that the NASA lead for COBE, said “If you’re religious, it’s like looking at God.”
(5) Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity meant that the universe had a beginning and was not eternal as he had previously believed (Einstein was originally a pantheist). Instead of being self-existent, his theory proved that the universe is not a cause, but instead one big effect—something brought it into existence. Einstein disliked his end result so much that he introduced a “fudge factor” into his theory that allowed it to leave room for an eternal universe. But there was only one problem. His fudge factor required a division by zero in his calculations—a mathematical error any good math student knows not to make. When discovered by other mathematicians, Einstein admitted his error calling it “the greatest blunder of my life.” After his acknowledgment, and upon confirming further research that showed the universe expanding just as his theory of relativity predicted, Einstein bowed to the fact that the universe is not eternal and said that he wanted “to know how God created the world.”
http://www.gotquestions.org/universe-eternal.html
At an international gathering of scientists in Beijing, one of the most well known and intelligent astrophysicists Stephen Hawking shared this:
He described -- through his electronic speech synthesizer -- how the general theory of relativity and the discovery of the expansion of the universe provoked conceptual changes, which meant that the idea of an ever-existing, ever-lasting universe was no longer tenable.
http://english.cri.cn/2946/2006/06/19/421@104361.htm
Conclusion
When talking with atheists and evolutionists, I continue to drive home the point that until they can scientifically and logically prove that everything can come from nothing then they are defeated at the onset. I pitch camp right there. The majority of the scientific community including Einstein and Hawking believe the universe had a beginning. This means that matter somehow came from non-matter which is scientifically impossible. The only rational conclusion that can be drawn is that the natural world was caused by supernatural force, i.e. God.
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