Evidence for God – Part 1

1-Matter, Energy, Space, and Time Exist

If someone tells you God doesn’t exist, ask: if there is no God, why is there anything at all? After many years, even centuries, of insisting that the universe is eternal and had no beginning, scientists finally surrendered to the strong evidence that the universe had a beginning. There was once no time, space, or matter/energy. Nothing existed.

The beginning is commonly known as the Big Bang, but a better name is the Cosmic Creation Event. If nothing existed before, how did the universe come into existence? Whatever explanation you suggest, it must be outside of space and time and immaterial. Those things could not have created themselves.

That leads to the question: “If nothing existed before the Cosmic Creation Event or Big Bang, why does anything exist now?” Whatever caused the beginning would have to be outside of time and space and immaterial—something unseen. What could that be? “By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible” (Hebrews 11:3). The God described in the Bible perfectly matches the requirements for the ultimate cause.

Many of today’s scientists insist that nothing exists beyond the natural things they can measure. Astronomer Carl Sagan famously said, “The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be.” Since the supernatural is beyond science’s limited boundaries, science can never answer these two questions: 1-“Why does the universe exist?” 2-“How did something come from nothing?”

The first question leads us to the second. If nothing existed before everything came into existence, “How can everything come from nothing?” If nothing existed before, how can something come from nothing with no cause? Since that does not make sense, scientists look for ways to redefine “nothing” to mean something other than absolutely nothing. But how can it be nothing if it is something, and what was the something? We suggest the answer is in Genesis 1:1.

— Roland Earnst © 2026