God of the Big Bang - Part 2 with Dr. Leslie Wickman

<p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'system-ui', Roboto, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">"Everything that begins to exist has a cause." </p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'system-ui', Roboto, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">So begins the classical argument for God's existence known as the Kalam Cosmological Argument. Contemporary sciences of the heavens have, at least for the time being, confirmed that the universe we currently inhabit did indeed have a beginning. </p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'system-ui', Roboto, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-line;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;">But what caused our universe to come into existence? The secular literature on the origin of the universe mentions God only in passing, or often merely to claim that theists are arguing about a god of the gaps. But if God did not create the cosmos, what did? When you read through the contemporary theories, they start to sound not a little like "invisible attributes" of God. Whatever created the universe in a naturalistic worldview has to be powerful beyond description, employing laws of physics heretofore unknown to man (as the current laws known by scientists 'break down' at the beginning), beyond space, beyond time, not made of anything physical or material, and either infinite or eternal. </p> <p style="margin:10px 0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5;color:#241e12;font-family:'system-ui', Roboto, sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-l