What does todays science have to say about the creation of the universe?
The question might be put like this: Is a Creator needed to account for the origin of the universe, or can science offer a plausible alternative explanation? I’d like to emphasize the careful phrasing of the last sentence: can science offer a plausible alternative explanation? We should expect no more from science. By its very nature science is incomplete and provides no ultimate truth. It is absurd to even attempt to scientifically prove or disprove the existence of God. Such a program is clearly outside the domain of science, and success is only claimed by people who don’t understand the scientific enterprise or by exploitation authors, such as Prof. Tipler, a physicist at Louisiana State University. The truth is that physics, as we know it today, is very poorly prepared to address basic questions such as: How was the universe created? or, What was there before the universe was created? Let’s face it. Physics can’t even tell us what electric charge, or mass really are, or where the e
