"The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe," Benedict said on the day Christians mark the Epiphany, the day the Bible says the three kings reached the site where Jesus was born by following a star.
"Contemplating it (the universe) we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God," he said in a sermon to some 10,000 people in St Peter's Basilica on the feast day.
Scientists cannot say what happened before the Big Bang or what caused the event in the first place. However, the idea that first there was nothing at all that means no atoms, no quarks, no hydrogen, nothing at all except for one infinitely dense particle. Then by happenstance something shifts in the particle and suddenly the universe is created by mere chance is hard to stomach.
I figure that whatever caused the Big Bang is God since the universe was created due to its action. The idea that it was some infinitely powerful force or being can be given the same credence as some space time shift or whatever.
Next you go come to the question of what created the infinitely dense pre-Big Bang particle in the first place. Was it mere chance that the particle was created or was it a contraction of a previous universe or what? You can easily believe that God packed the particle like He was creating a firework and then set it off. It is a much more succinct idea then just by mere chance this particle was created and then mere chance set the thing off.
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