If the likelihood of an event happening is zero, it didn’t happen. But fortunately for most physicists who theorize about the origin of life, the likelihood that the universe spontaneously emerged from nothing is not zero. It could have happened. There’s a chance. It is very low, but it’s not zero. How low is it? By most estimates, it’s less than one chance in 10^110. 

One chance in ten followed by 110 zeros.

(100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.)

That was close, right, physicists? There’s a chance. But it’s pretty small.  Actually, if you really think about it, it’s virtually impossible that the creation of all life from nothing happened purely through random chance. And yet, most of the world’s physicists argue that it did happen.

When theorizing on possible origins of the cosmos, scientists propose a theory known as the Big Bang. The theory was proposed 100 years ago by a priest/physicist named Georges Lemaître. It goes something like this. 13+ billion years ago, there was an explosion, and all the matter that exists today emerged from nothing. The explosion just sort of happened, real fast. Space and time emerged from a state in which they didn’t exist. Everything that exists today, you, me, life, the universe, came from nothing. Boom.

But there are opposing views among the scientific community on creation of life. Some scientists tell us that a previous universe existed, but it collapsed. and then rebounded, creating what we have today. I’m not sure how that happened, but evidently they think it did. The bad news is they also think it will happen again when the universe ends. And there’s the group that says we are living in a digital simulation. Sort of like The Matrix, or Minecraft, I think. None of these views helps much, because we still need to know where all the stuff came from and how it got started.

One possibility rarely mentioned when discussing the science behind the Big Bang is the existence and active participation of a supernatural entity. I will call him God. Is it fair for scientists to ignore a creator? Are they eliminating a possibility based solely on personal beliefs? I think God as the creator of it all is worth investigating. People have great imaginations, so why wouldn’t we consider God as a reason for our existence? That’s no crazier than some of the theories posited by science. The reason it’s never mentioned is 93% of members of the National Academy of Sciences do not believe in God. By now, those who have passed on, Einstein, Hawking, Sagan, know the truth. I don’t think they were all that surprised when they found out.

There is a term called Cosmic Fine-Tuning. Basically, it says the conditions present at the instant the universe came into existence were crucial. The values for each required condition to create life must lie within extremely narrow ranges to allow the spontaneous formation of structures like galaxies, stars, and ultimately, life. If these parameters differed by even tiny amounts the universe would not support the complexity required for living systems. Constants like gravity and the speed of light had to be exact. Good thing these constants were all in place at the time the universe came around. Stephen Hawking agrees with me. The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers [the constants of physics] seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life. (A Brief History of Time, p. 125)

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is modifying the story of our universe. Recent discoveries made by the telescope have started serious debates among scientists. Some now argue that the telescope’s findings call into question the cornerstone of modern cosmology: the Big Bang theory. Could everything we thought we knew about the universe be wrong? 

I can answer to that question. Yes. Everything scientists thought they knew about the universe is wrong. Life as we know it is not the result of a series of random events that statistics scream is impossible. God pushed the button.

The prophet Isaiah said it best. He tells us that God says, “It is I who made the earth and created mankind on it. My own hands stretched out the heavens.” 

Problem solved.

© Jeff Lossau – May 5, 2026