Big Bang and Big Brain
by Charles Colson, Breakpoint

Dr. Arno Penzias was frustrated. While adjusting an antenna for a radioastronomy experiment, he and Dr. Robert Wilson encountered a noise that wouldn’t go away. Eventually they realized they had discovered “cosmic background radiation,” which many physicists now call “the radio echo of creation.”

At the time, many scientists scoffed at the words in Genesis, “In the beginning.” They assumed that the universe had existed from eternity past. More importantly, if the universe did have a beginning, that implies a Creator—and many people prefer not to believe that.

But Dr. Penzias says, “The creation of the universe is supported by all the observable data astronomy has produced so far. As a result, the people who reject the data can arguably be described as having a ‘religious’ belief.” That is, people who refuse to consider the evidence because it conflicts with their preconceived ideas are following a “dogma” in the most stubborn sense of the word.

In an article in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, Penzias told Dr. Jerry Bergman of the American Scientific Affiliation, “I invite you to examine the snapshot provided by half a century’s worth of astrophysical data and see what the pieces of the universe actually look like. … In order to achieve consistency with our observations we
must … assume not only creation of matter and energy out of nothing, but creation of space and time as well.”

Penzias, a Nobel Prize winner, added, “The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted had I had nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole.”

So what does Penzias think that the Big Bang was? He says the most logical explanation is “a moment of discrete creation from nothing!”

Some have paraphrased the Big Bang as “God spoke, and bang, the universe was created.” That’s close to the Psalmist’s statement: “Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast” (Psalm 33:8,9). The Big Bang really points to a Big Brain—to God, who has the wisdom and power to create everything that exists.

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