The Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God

Suppose one day you decided to build a spaceship in your back yard to travel across our Milky Way galaxy. It would take you roughly 200,000 years if you were traveling at the speed of light to travel from one end of the Milky Way to the other. By the way, the speed of light is somewhere in the ballpark of 671 million miles per hour. Try wrapping your mind around that! The size and beauty of the cosmos is simply incredible. Of course, modern science would have you believe that the entirety of the cosmos’ origin was a giant explosion that was “incomprehensibly small, on dimensions much tinier than the smallest known subatomic particles, and it was completely transformed over an immeasurably brief period, much shorter than any observable time scale.” If the big bang theory is true, then what caused it? And what caused that? And what caused that? You would always be forced to keep asking that question, eventually having to come to something eternal.

The Cosmological argument is very simple. The cosmos exists; therefore, something had to create it. Another way to think about it is cause and effect. Think about the domino effect. You push the first one over (cause) and the rest begin to fall (effect). Science, and common sense, understands that nothing cannot come from nothing. Everything in nature comes from something else. The law of cause and effect demands an eternal creator! Order does not come from chaos and design demands a designer! If you took all the pieces of a computer and threw them all up in the air, they would not fall together to create a complete computer. Furthermore, if you were walking through the desert and found a computer, you would not assume that it just naturally appeared there. True science supports the Creator!

Romans 1:20 – “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.”

-Caleb Westbrook