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God and His Creation Plan
the Big Bang Theory, according to which the universe
is constantly expanding. After working out the relevant
mathematical equations, Hawking has reached the
conclusion that the expansion of the universe is taking
place according to a well-calculated scheme. The initial
rate of expansion must have been fixed with great accuracy
so that it would always be less than the critical rate, i.e. the
rate at which the universe would begin to collapse again.
This view cannot be explained unless it is accepted that
the rate of expansion of the universe has been determined
with the utmost precision. Stephen Hawking writes:

It would be very difficult to explain why the
universe should have begun in just this way,
except as the act of a God who intended to
create beings like us. (p. 127)

One of the most amazing qualities of the universe is that
there is no interpretation or explanation of it, other than
that which allows for God’s existence, despite the fact
that the best brains in every age have attempted to unravel
its mysteries. It has been claimed that the universe has
always been in existence in its present form. It has also
been claimed that it came into being on its own and that
it goes on on its own. Cause and effect have been said
to have created everything, and attempts have also been
made to prove the law of evolution to be the creator of the
universe; which however can be only a process of nature,
but never its creator. The more a man learns about the
universe, the more absurd do these theories appear to
him; the stranger does it seem that something, or some
being other than God Almighty should be the Lord and
Master of the Universe. The universe, by its very existence,

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