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U in SURGE is Universe is Expanding.

Good scientific theories are those that are able to predict phenomena that have not yet been discovered.

As we have seen, General Relativity predicted an expanding universe. But it was not until astronomer Edwin Hubble looked through his telescope more than a decade later that scientists finally confirmed that the universe is expanding and that it is expanding from a single point.

The theory of an expanding universe was validated by Hubble’s discovery of a “red shift” in the light from observable galaxy, which meant that those galaxies were moving away farther from us.

In other words, the universe is expanding from a single point in the distant past.

How does the expanding universe prove a beginning? If we could watch a video recording of the history of the universe in reverse, we would see all matter in the universe collapse back at a point—not the size of basketball, not the size of a golf ball, but mathematically and logically to a point that is actually nothing.

In other words, once there was nothing, and then BANG, there was something—the entire universe exploded into being! This, of course, is what is known as the Big Bang.

It is also important to understand that the universe is not expanding into empty space, but space itself is expanding—there was no space that existed before the Big Bang.

It is also important to understand that the universe did not emerge from preexisting material but from nothing—there was no matter before the Big Bang.

In fact, chronologically, there were no “before” the Big Bang because there are not “before-s” without time, and there was no time before the Big Bang.

Time, space, and matter came into existence at the Big Bang.

With his divine power, God created the world with one colossal bang and breathed life into existence.

The secularized version of this theory is summarized by this quote British author Anthony Kenny. “According to the Big Bang Theory, the whole matter of the universe began to exist at a particular time in the remote past. A proponent of such a theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.”

How else have scientists come to the verified conclusion that there was once a big bang?