The idea of the Big Bang was first put forward by Dr. Edwin Hubble, the man after whom we named the Hubble telescope.

His theory was that, at one time, all matter was packed into a dense mass at temperatures of many trillions of degrees. Then, about 13.8 billion years ago, there was a huge explosion. From that explosion, all the matter that today forms our planets and stars was born, and the universe was created.

Hubble’s idea was confirmed through what was then called the discovery of the century. On April 24, 1992, the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite, better known as COBE, gave stunning confirmation of the hot Big Bang creation event.

In many ways, it really was the birth of modern cosmology.

Now, we already knew that something cannot come from nothing.

We also now know that the universe isn’t eternal. It had a beginning.

Yet according to the science of the Big Bang, something did come from nothing.

And that raises all kinds of questions.

God-type questions.

Because you can’t just say that everything began with the Big Bang and act as if, somehow, you’ve explained the origins of the universe, because that still doesn’t explain where the matter that exploded came from. Or what or Who exploded it. If you want to put the Big Bang in lay terms, here it is: Where did the stuff that got “banged” come from, and who “banged” it? Something – or Someone – someway, somehow brought that first matter into existence from nothing, and in such a way that it exploded into the universe.

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