Everything that begins to exist has a cause.The universe began to exist. Therefore the universe has a cause.
Why couldn’t natural forces have produced the universe? Because there was no nature and there were no natural forces prior to the Big Bang. Because nature itself was created at the Big Bang, the cause of the universe must be something beyond nature—something we must call supernatural. It also means that the supernatural cause of the universe must at least be:
- Spaceless because it created space
- Timeless because it created time
- Tmmaterial because it created matter
- Powerful because it created out of nothing
- Intelligent because the creation event and the universe was precisely designed
- personal because it made a choice to convert a state of nothing into something (impersonal forces don’t make choices).
