What does science now says about the origins of the universe and God?
I don’t think science can ever prove the existence of God. But there are many observations that come out of science that are actually quite intriguing and cause even atheist or agnostic cosmologists to question how could this be just an accident? I think the general consensus quite broadly held now is that the universe had a beginning — the Big Bang — somewhere around 14 billion years ago. And in that flash of light and energy and mass, everything, all of the galaxies were all in one fine infinitesimally small point and then expanded at a prodigious rate over the course of these billions of years, with the coalescence of stars and planets and so on. When you look at the improbabilities of our current universe, they are stunning. There are 15 constants that characterize the universe, things to do with the weak and strong force that hold nuclei together, for instance — the gravitational pull, various constants in electromagnetism. If anyone of those were to have a slightly different v
