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Looking through the 100-inch telescope at California Mount Wilson Observatory, Edwin Hubble discovered a “red shift” in the light from every observable galaxy, which meant that the galaxies were moving farther away from us. In other words, this discovery confirmed General Relativity – the universe appears to be expanding from a single point in the distant past.

In 1929, Einstein traveled to Mount Wilson to look through Hubble’s telescope for himself. What he saw was irrefutable.

The observational evidence showed that the universe was indeed expanding just as General Relativity predicted.

With his cosmological constant now completely crushed by the weight of the evidence against it, Einstein could no longer support his wish for an eternal universe.

He described his cosmological constant as the greatest blunder of his life.

Although Einstein said that he believed in a pantheistic God (a god that is essentially the universe), his comments admitting creation and divine though describe a theistic God.

And as “irritating” as it may be, his theory of General Relativity stands out as one of the strongest evidence for a theistic God.

Indeed, General Relativity supports what is one of the oldest formal arguments for the existence of a theistic God – the Cosmological Argument.

In next post, we will discuss the Cosmological Argument.