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The Universe Is Created From Non-Existence 19

A photograph taken by
the Hubble telescope.
Every luminous point
in the picture is a
galaxy. It is estimated
that there are approx-
imately 300 billion
galaxies in the entire
universe. It is pre-
dicted that there are
on average 250-300
billion stars in each
galaxy. All of the
matter and energy
making up this giant

We do, of course, have an alternative. We could say that there was no cre-
ation, and that the universe has always been here. But this is even more diffi-
cult to accept than creation. 12

Materialist scientists preferred the difficult alternative and persisted in
the denial of Creation. One of the theories proposed against the Big Bang
was the "steady state theory," which was espoused most determinedly for a
time, despite all the scientific realities.