Philo

Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring-Summer 1998

Theodore Schick Jr.
Pages 95-104

The ‘Big Bang’ Argument for the Existence of God

Some believe that evidence for the big bang is evidence for the existence of god. Who else, they ask, could have caused such a thing? In this paper, I evaluate the big bang argument, compare it with the traditional first-cause argument, and consider the relative plausibility of various natural explanations of the big bang.