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The E in SURGE is for Einstein.

His theory of General Relativity is the fifth line of scientific evidence that the universe had a beginning, and his discovery was the beginning of the end for the idea that the universe is eternal.

The theory itself has been verified to five decimal places. It demands an absolute beginning for time, space, and matter. It shows that the time, space, and matter are interdependent, you cannot have one without the other.

From General Relativity, scientists predicted and then found the expanding universe, the radiation afterglow, and the great galaxy seeds that were precisely tweaked to allow the universe to firm into its present state. Add these discoveries to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and we have five lines of evidence that prove and validate that the universe had a beginning.

So the universe had a beginning. What does that mean for the existence of God?

The man who presently sits in Edwin Hubble’s chair at Mount Wilson observatory had a few things to say about it. His name is Robert Jastrow, an astronomer that we previously discussed.

In addition to being the director of Mount Wilson, Jastrow is the founder of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies. Obviously, his credentials of being of a scientist are impeccable. He writes a book called “God and the Astronomer” in order to show the Big Bang points to God.

Jastrow reveals in the opening line of chapter 1 that he has no religious axe to grind. He writes, ” When a astronomer writes about God, his colleagues assume he is either over the hill or going bonkers. In my case it should be understood from the start that I am an agnostic in religious matter.”

In light of Jastrow’s personal agnosticism belief, his theistic quotations are all more deliberate.

After explaining some of the Big Bang evidence we have just reviewed, Jastrow writes, “Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to the biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical account of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to the creation of men commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.”

Why would Jastrow admit that the origin of life was supernatural?