Either

No One or Someone Created Something Out of Nothing

If there is no Causal Agent or Creator, why is there something instead of nothing at all? Either no one created
something out of nothing, or else someone created something out of nothing. Which view is more
reasonable? Did nothing create something? No. Even Maria of The Sound of Music knew the answer when she
sang, Nothing comes from nothing. Nothing ever could!
The most reasonable view is the Causal Agent created something. Cosmologist, Mount Wilson Observatory
Director and NASAs Goddard Institute of Space Studies Founder, and self-proclaimed agnostic Robert
Jastrow suggested this when he wrote in his book God and the Astronomers:1
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has
scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the
final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

The precision with which the Universe exploded into being provides even more compelling evidence that
points powerfully towards the Causal Agent or Creator. The design argument is as follows:
1. Every design had a designer.
2. The Universe has highly complex design, as verified by the Anthropic Principle.
3. Therefore, the Universe had a Designer.

There are over 402 Universe and 922 Milky Way Galaxy extremely fine-tuned, life-enabling anthropic
constants for biological life to be possible.2 These constants are fine-tuned and balanced on a razors edge in
order for human life to exist, which makes our place in the Cosmos designed for discovery and very unlikely.
In other words, our existence in this universe depends on numerous cosmological constants and parameters
whose numerical values must fall within a very narrow range of values. This is the Anthropic Principle or
Law of Human Existence.
Norman L. Geisler and Frank Turek wrote in their book with the title I Dont Have Enough Faith to Be an
Atheist that atheists must take extreme measures to deny the obvious.3 When they dream up hypothetical
theories that are not supported by any evidenceand in fact are actually impossiblethey have left the
realm of reason and rationality and entered into the realm of blind faith.
Believing without observation is exactly what atheists accuse religious people of doing. But, ironically, it is
atheists who push a religion of blind faith. Theists have good reasons to believe the existence of the Causal
Agent, Cosmic Designer, or Creator based on the Big Bang and the Anthropic Principle. Atheists do not. That
is why we do not have enough faith to be atheists.

1 Jastrow, Robert, God and the Astronomers (New York: Norton, 1978), p. 116.
2 Astrophysicist Guillermo Gonzalez and Analytic Philosopher Jay W. Richards, The Privileged Planet (Washington, DC:

Regnery, 2004). Astrophysicist Hugh Ross, RTB Design Compendium (2009) for Why the Universe Is the Way It Is,
Reasons to Believe, <reasons.org/links/hugh/research-notes>, note cumulative 917 scientific references.
3 Geisler, Norman L., and Turek, Frank, I Dont Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2004), pp.
111 and 112.