The Existence of God

Science and religion, at first glance they seem contradictory, but they have gone hand in hand for millennia. The example we will be using: the Big Bang Theory. Most view the big bang theory as parallel with Darwin's theory of evolution, proof against the theory of creationism, but who formulated this popular theory of universal origin? In 1927, Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, designed the concept based around the phenomenon of measurable expansion of the observable universe. In fact, this theory, if we assume that it is at least somewhat true, easily provides proof for the existence of God himself. This may be a difficult concept for most to understand, but the points I will present will be quite rudimentary.


First, assuming that the universe expanded from a single point in spacetime (the basis of the big bang theory), we can also come to the conclusion that the universe is not infinite at any given moment in time, that is to say that if the universe had an origin, then it must be finite at any distinct moment, even if its expansion appears to be limitless. What does this mean in terms of God? Well if the universe came into the plane of existence at a distinct and measurable moment in time, then some external and more powerful force must have caused this sudden birth into realty. In this post, we will define God simply as a being or entity with infinite power and the creator of the universe. As we said before, with the universe a definite force, an entity with infinite force must have caused its explosion into existence. Some may claim that the universe created itself upon the moment of the big bang, but that theory is poor speculation. If the universe that we have defined is finite, having begun at a distinct moment, then it cannot have brought itself into being, or it must have had some infinite distinction beforehand.

Now that we have seen that something must have created the universe itself, then we can define this unknown quantity as God, having been responsible for the universe's origins. You may claim now that this post has not proved the existence of God, merely that the universe was created by some infinite force, but if we continue to think speculatively about the implications of our claims, the truth becomes clear. Any entity capable of the creation of an infinitely expanding, though finite in size, universe must be, itself, infinite. Since we ruled out the possibility of the universe being infinite, and thus capable of its own birth, the creator of the universe, whom we have defined as God, must be infinite in power and limitless in capability. Thus, the existence of a finite universe proves the existence of an infinite God.

Quod Erat Demonstrandum