Astronomer: “Was Our Universe Created in a Laboratory?”

Avi Loeb begins his article by stating, “the biggest mystery concerning the history of our universe is what happened before the big bang. Where did our universe come from?” He then lists multiple “conjectures” about our cosmic origins, including:

• “[O]ur universe emerged from a vacuum fluctuation”;
• “[I]t is cyclic with repeated periods of contraction and expansion”;
• “[I]t was selected by the anthropic principle out of the string theory landscape of the multiverse”;
• “[I]t emerged out of the collapse of matter in the interior of a black hole.”

But a “less explored possibility,” he argues, is “that our universe was created in the laboratory of an advanced technological civilization” with the advanced technology to create “a baby universe out of nothing through quantum tunneling.”

But a “less explored possibility,” he argues, is “that our universe was created in the laboratory of an advanced technological civilization” with the advanced technology to create “a baby universe out of nothing through quantum tunneling.” He claims such an idea “unifies the religious notion of a creator with the secular notion of quantum gravity.”

So a Creator God is dismissed out of hand, but advanced aliens making an entire universe out of nothing in a lab is a “less explored possibility”! Such a foolish article highlights the truth of Romans 1:18–23:

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

It’s obvious our universe didn’t come from nothing and that there is a Creator—but sinful hearts suppress the truth and will believe in anything (literally anything) rather than accept the truth of God’s Word.

Dr. Loeb, I encourage you to discover the true origins of the universe, the earth, and life itself by looking to God’s Word, beginning in Genesis, which states, “In the beginning God. . .” (Genesis 1:1). By the way, science confirms life and the universe could only come about as a result of an intelligence.

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