Why the Big Bang was the most precisely planned event in all of history

In your kitchen cabinet, you’ve probably got a spray bottle with an adjustable nozzle.  If you twist the nozzle one way, it sprays a spray_diego_torres_silvestrefine mist into the air. 

You twist the nozzle the other way, it squirts a jet of water in a straight line. 

You turn that nozzle to the exact position you want so you can wash a mirror, clean up a spill, or whatever.

If the universe had expanded a little faster, the matter would have sprayed out into space like fine mist from a water bottle – so fast, a gazillion particles of dust would speed into infinity and never even form a single star.If the universe had expanded just a little slower, the material would have dribbled out like big drops of water, then collapsed back where it came from by the force of gravity.

A little too fast, and you get a meaningless spray of fine dust.  A little too slow, and the whole universe collapses back into one big black hole.

The surprising thing is just how narrow the difference is – the fine tuning of the Big Bang. 

To strike the perfect balance between too fast and too slow, the force, something that physicists call “the Dark Energy Term” had to be accurate to one part in ten with 120 zeros. If you wrote this as a decimal, the number would look like this:

0.000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000 0000000000000000000000000000001

In their paper “Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant” two atheist scientists from Stanford University stated that the existence of this dark energy term would have required a miracle… “An unknown agent” intervened in cosmic history “for reasons of its own.”

Just for comparison, the best human engineering example is the Gravity Wave Telescope, which was built with a precision of 23 zeros. 

The Designer, the ‘external agent’ that caused our universe must possess an intellect, knowledge, creativity and power trillions and trillions of times greater than we humans have. Absolutely amazing.

Now a person who doesn’t believe in God has to find some way to explain this. 

One of the more common explanations seems to be “There was an infinite number of universes, so it was inevitable that things would have turned out right in at least one of them.”

The “infinite universes” theory is truly an amazing theory. Just think about it, if there is an infinite number of universes, then absolutely everything is not only possible… It’s actually happened!

It means that somewhere, in some dimension, there is a universe where the Chicago Cubs won the World Series last year.  There’s a universe where Justin Bieber becomes President of the United States. 

There’s even a universe where Elvis kicks his drug habit and still resides at Graceland and sings at concerts. 

Imagine the possibilities!

I might sound like I’m joking, but actually I’m dead serious. To believe an infinite number of universes made life possible by random chance is to believe everything else I just said, too.

Some people believe in God with a capital G.

And some folks believe in Chance with a Capital C.

Respectfully Submitted,

Perry Marshall

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312 Responses

  1. Jon says:

    You know the infinite universe theory is a very popular one. Many physicists believe that we live in a multiverse with more than just four dimensions. There there are even different versions of you. That every event that can happen in your life, does happen. That there are universes where you flip a coin, it lands on heads. One it lands on tails, and one that lands on it’s side. That every event that has ever happened will happen, there could be infinite outcomes.

    So there very well could be universes where no life has evolved. There could be some where no planets or nothing evolved. There could be universes where life is everywhere. Just because we live in a universe where life evolved, doesn’t mean that we are designed or special. It just means that in this insiginficant corner of space, we’re here.

    I call it “Winning the Cosmic Lottery.” When you win the regular lottery, you were lucky. I don’t think God chose you to win all that money when so many other people need it. We’re lucky and fortunate to be here. I find that thought humbling and full of humility. That in an infinite cosmos, we are here. We won.

    • All the lotteries that I’m familiar with, there’s a winner and there’s a bunch of losers. And I know the losers, they’re people we rub shoulders with every day. They’re not invisible.

      Nobody has ever detected all these other universes. Yet people claim there’s an infinite number of them. I’m not convinced they’re there at all.

      • Jon says:

        But see when it comes to the lottery of the Cosmos, we have all won!

        That is true that no one has yet detected these other universes, as multiverses are outside the current realm of Science. But then again, so is the idea of an Intelligent Designer. Both are untestable.

  2. Sabir says:

    DEAR
    Mr.Perry Marshal
    how do you do ?
    my question is that
    the universe consists of 7 skys (7 heavens ) ?
    this came in Quran 1430 years ago is Muslims book ( Islam) what is your opinion ?

  3. SABIR says:

    DEAR
    how do you do ?
    I hope you reply my Question :
    What is the first matter (material ) that the universe created from ?

    GOOD LUCK
    BYE

  4. ben sobin says:

    Are there just 5 parts in this series

    I would not be asking, if the “first” had stated: ” This is 1 of 5 ” ( e.g.)

  5. Karuppan says:

    Perry, your questioning and your thoughts based on scientific observations and your own stimulating arguments are extremely interesting. I appreciate receiving these instalments of great information from you. Please continue. That said, this question of the birth of our physical universe, our thinking (and feeling) processes and the ’cause’ of all these is, to repeat what is well known and oft-said, continues to be a perennially engaging all curious men, which is, practically all humans of all times, with a curiosity that is increasing with time. Although we may thus question, and even provide answers, however partial, one is never satisfied that the answers are complete or satisfactory. This is what I think, after contemplating on this question of the “cause of it all” – whether it is a supremely sensate Being, or God; or just “chance” as we may define in mathematical probability terms. The answer with ‘God’ has thrown up many variants of it, over time — some calling it as Allah, some as Father whose son is Jesus, some just an entity which can be formless or assume forms, at Its will, and transcends time and space, and various people call it variously and pursue different paths as determined by their mental make up (and that of course, is the Hindu view, the tradition, by the way, I come from). I do believe that this question of chance is absurd, since chance cannot exist in void, without another to operate some process to generate a chance : indeed, like: throwing a dice must be done by some thrower, or else there is no question of the chance associated with each with its six faces. Hence we are forced to a logical necessity of a God. This God is realizable, but not quite comprehensible. This limitation of humans is because of the fact we are designed to operate within severe constraints of space and time. Thus anything that does not conform to our view of space or time is not going to be acceptable to us, BUT THEN, we have no business to assume that space and time are the only dimensions (3 for space and one for time = 4 , total). Even by scientific inference, I gather that there should be at least 13 or 14 dimensions. To my mind, the number of dimensions could be infinite. ALL THESE INFINITIES, FOR THE INFINITE TIME, INFINITE SPACE, INFINITE DIMENSIONS, … and more … POINT TO THE INFINITE CAPABILITY, INFINITE MANIFESTATION, INFINITE …… OF THAT BEING WHICH KEEPS DEFYING OUR COMPREHENSION ALL OUR LIVES, HOWEVER WE MAY TRY. BUT THE TRUTH IS SIMPLY, WE CANNOT KNOW GOD IN THE ANALYTICAL SENSE IN WHICH WE UNDERSTAND SO MANY THINGS IN OUR LIMITED SPACE-TIME EXISTENCE, BUT WE CAN FEEL AND PERHAPS, THROUGH SOME PROCESS OF SELF DISCIPLINE AND SELF CONTROL, R E A L I Z E THE TRUTH. Thanks for your patience. I have an open mind, and always welcome fresh “thought air”

    • Kağan says:

      a very nice explanation thank you. A quote from you: ”The God is realizable, but not quite comprehensible” . this sentence is completly true. People try to think what is before the universe and before the God. the answer is : ‘WE CANT KNOW” ; because the physic rules in this universe are very different with the God physics. this universe is like a custody of God, vested in tins. So we are stuck here, we cant get out!! How can u undertand the outside of a box when u cant go out of it? thus looking for an answer is meaningless

      • Wendy Weger says:

        Kagan – I do not believe that there is anything we cannot know-why would whatever creation is, deny access to itself if “it” created us? In my experience
        every time I ask a new question from a loftier perspective I know that I am
        creating new neural pathways in my brain which facilitate the acceptance of more expanded levels of consciousness and with each question there is a new answer and so it goes on, and on……….. and on.What a magical gift to be in a human body equipped with a brain which is able to facilitate all of “God”-hence Ask and ye shall receive – the Kingdom of Heaven is within. For myself
        I choose to explore a more expanded view of God. I don’t think it’s about anyone
        being “right” – but purely about sharing personal experiences with respect and the intent to learn and grow personally and if one shed’s a little light
        along the way
        then
        So be it – Wendy W.

    • Wendy Weger says:

      I find your perceptions similar to mine. I think one has to have the quiet moment
      of contemplation to come to the realisation that ‘God” is staring back at us when we look in the mirror – I know that what I think creates my reality and I
      am beyond words to be able to explain that knowingness. I have to expand and explore into the”mind” of God in the peace and quiet of the wee hours of the
      morning. It truely does come down to different levels of consciosness for me
      all of the words we string together hopefully spark that special question which
      opens our mind to infinite realities albeit step-by-step.

      Very sincerely – Wendy

  6. Joe Reinhorn says:

    Your attempt to equate “God” with “Chance” wasn’t really worthy of you. But be that as it may, I reccomend to do that with “Infinity” witth a capital “I”. As for the creation of our puny universe :
    1. Imagine a sphere,within asphere, within a sphere, within a sphere….to infinity
    2. Imagine the Big-Bang in the first sphere (we witness big-bangs daily in our
    own sphere and we are not very much impressed any more)
    3. Imagine our small universe thus being created
    4.Imagine the creation of a chain-reaction replacing the material (by creating a new
    sphere – albeit universe) form one sphere to another “ad infinitum”
    now, why would I need an intelligence to organize a Big-Bamg, an universe, Chaos, evolution, expansion, etc.,etc.,……(with all the respect to scientific explanations, models, calculations and so on.). Infinity was not created. It’s there because it’s there, like the value of “pi”, the counting of numbers and other such concepts. Perhaps our minds are not exercized or strong enough ( the concensus is that we use only about 3% of its capacity) to accept INFINITY.

    Respectfully submitted (as well).

    • Forrest Charnock says:

      Dear Joe:

      Apparently the word consensus has a very different meaning to you. We use all of our brains, just not all at once. There is an old wives tale about using only 10% but I never even heard the 3% before.
      I have never witnessed a BIg Bang, got any pics?

  7. Jon says:

    I’m still curious on how you can see “design” in nature, based on your logic.

    How does this line of reasoning explain pain, suffering and natural disasters?

    Why design a world that is constantly cooling and erupting with violent events that kill millions of innocent people?

    What about our fear of pain and death? If God was real, then he has no fear of death or pain and yet he created beings that must suffer this fate. What does that say about him?

    Also, the problem of evil. Where did that come from?

    If the universe was “designed” then how do you explain these very real things we deal with?

    And I know you are a Christians so I can only assume you will give me a Christian answer to these problems. But since you are a big proponent of logic and reason, please try and answer these using those tools, instead of faith.

    • Jon,

      I created a new blog post in response to your question:
      http://evo2.org/design-evil-suffering/

      Perry

    • Tavi says:

      Hi Jon,

      How does this line of reasoning explain pain, suffering? Well I believe we are by far better now than 10000 years ago or more, the people are suffering less, there is medicine, we do not live in caves any more… at least most of us! I think God means Alfa and Omega, the beginning and the perfection and we experiencing God somewhere in the middle, because our limited 5 senses, in only one forward direction, in slices day by day. A blind with only 4 senses experiences the World less than you do.

      A Christian does not fear death like a non-believer; 2000 years ago they did not fear the death even when they were condemned to die by being eaten by lions. Most of them witness Jesus miracles and if everything was a lie then they wouldn’t stick with their creed, and you know that! I don’t have a proper example, but for a person who was not born and did not experience the Beatles Mania in early 60’s… is hard to understand how great the Beatles were. Watch a documentary with their concerts here in the States or elsewhere and look at those girls who were crying of happiness, some of them having even spontaneous orgasms. Those girls, who know are in their 50s, will forever remember and love the Beatles no matter what… And watching a documentary is not like being there experiencing live the miracle. What I am trying to say is that 2000 years ago something extraordinary happened that people just believed deeply in Jesus and not in other so called prophets. Unfortunately in the past like in the present days, the religion is used by powerful people for political purposes and the result ends in tragedies. When the religion is hand in hand with the science the results are blessings. You know Einstein believed in God. The Big Bang and its Singularity points out that our Universe is a part of something much bigger, and I am sure that in the future we will understand that better, but at that time we will experience God even better and there will be more blessings and less evil.

      If you would live in a 2D flat surface and someone would have a glimpse of the height and would tell you about this wonderful 3D World… would you believe him/her? What about now, if someone would tell you that Singularity has more dimensions than Space time continuum has, would you believe him/her? You can’t prove that God is Alpha and Omega only with biology, physics and math formulas; you must add the religion because that is the first glimpse of that extra dimension.

      • Jon says:

        Thanks for the comment but you reminded of me something when you said about the blind man experiences more of the world than I do.

        “Faith is blind.”

        I hate to say it but your faith (however strong it is) has blinded you to reality. The Bible is a book written at a time when our species was young. The Bible that you, me and everyone is familiar with is a copy of a copy of a copy. I agree it takes incredible faith to believe that that outdated book is the word of God.

        Oh sure, you can say that the authors were “divinely inspired” to write the Bible. Buy you can say that about anything. You can say that about the people who made my house. Does that make my house special? No.

        And yes we are more healthy than we were back then. But the faithful seem to put more trust in the insights of those that lived 2,000 years ago than we do today.

        So would you choose a doctor of today or a doctor of Jesus’s time if you were sick? We would all chose a doctor of today. Why? Because we know more today than they did back then.

        Christians do fear death because they HAVE to believe in a place that they visit after death. They can’t deal with the fact that all life ends they have to invent another existance.

        Atheists do NOT fear death because we embrace this life. If this is the only life we get, doesn’t that make this life more important? I think so. The idea of an afterelife cheapens this life. It’s as if this is nothing more than a springboard to the next life.

        It is true that Science can’t answer all the “why” questions, those are the ones we have to answer ourselves. We try to use religion, reason and logic to answer those.

        • I have faith in God with a capital G; atheists have faith with Chance with a capital C.

          • Jon says:

            I love this saying! I’m getting bumper stickers made!

            I can see others like “I believe in Zeus with a capital Z” or “I believe in Allah with a capital A” my favorite…”I believe in the Flying Spagetti Monster with a capital F, S and M!”

        • Forrest Charnock says:

          Dear Jon:

          Some of your comments like the Bible was written when we were “young as a species” mystifies me. The first books in the form we know them were penned about 3500 years ago, not a million.
          Instead of attacking the Bible why not read it? Sadly talking to most of the Christians here will not help you understand pain , death and suffering as they pick and choose which parts are true and have no answer themselves.

    • Forrest Charnock says:

      Dear Jon:

      Even the most avid atheists see the design in nature, Darwin saw it and so does Dawkins, they try to explain it away. To not see it is to not look.
      The Bible explains why there is death and suffering I suggest you read it.
      Otherwise you are forced to believe matter created your intelligence and that is insane.

  8. Logan says:

    how biased towards religion can you get lol..

    I received the 3rd mail today I think, the one about how it was apparently amazing that our universe found balance instead of expanding too fast or condencing..

    What a load of crap lol, it isn’t amazing that we exist, it had to happen eventually in the current model..

    and also, there wasn’t just one big bang, there’s probably been infinitely many in our own universe, think of it as a critical mass of black holes..

    I hate biased articles that tries to draw the conclusions for me.

    • Do you have photographs or historical records of all those other universes?

    • Forrest Charnock says:

      Sir if you read your own words you are very biased against religion, what makes your bias superior?
      Everyone with a brain is biased, the question to ask is which bias is best.
      It is odd you seem to imply anti-theism is religiously neutral .

    • Forrest Charnock says:

      Hi Logan”

      “and also, there wasn’t just one big bang, there’s probably been and also, there wasn’t just one big bang, there’s probably been infinitely many in our own universe, think of it as a critical mass of black holes..

      I hate biased articles that tries to draw the conclusions for me., think of it as a critical mass of black holes..

      I hate biased articles that tries to draw the conclusions for me.”

      Seeing as there is no possible way to know:
      ” and also, there wasn’t just one big bang, there’s probably been infinitely many in our own universe, think of it as a critical mass of black holes..”

      You obviously let someone tell you what to think. Perry made a reasonable argument and you answered with hostility and strickly unreasonable,ad hoc , explanations to explain them away.

  9. Georginius says:

    Estimado señor; he tomado unos cuantos dias para meditar y formular, almismo tiempo, una pregunta por lo menos interesante. De acuerdo a lo leido hasta hoy en los post, -permitame aclarar que superan holgadamente mis conocimientos cientificos- todo se remite a la existencia, o no, de multiples universos y su causante (agente externo), ahora bien; me queda la impresion de que el debate no aborda suficientemente el verdadero misterio que es el de la vida. Poseemos una enorme cantidad de opiniones cientificas,teologicas,historicas o politicas -si tambien creo haber leido- pero aun no encuentro una respuesta simple al problema de que nacio primero, el huevo o la gallina?.En el orden religioso todas las teorias conocidas se derrumban frente a las mas recientes investigaciones cientificas y/o arqueologicas e historicas, y en el orden cientifico frente a los descubrimientos mas recientes acerca de la continua expansion del universo conocido, en consecuencia mi simple y humilde pregunta continua siendo “que nacio primero…el huevo o la gallina?” y al mismo tiempo ¿podemos saber cuando finaliza el ciclo de la especie..si es un ciclo?.
    Respetuosamente, muchas gracias.

  10. Aslam Jamadar says:

    Dear Perry,
    At some place in todays edition you said of existance of infinite number of Universes and even quoted possibilities of some events we experience in our real world in some other dimension. Why do you think that thoes universes already existing at this moment of time. The existance of such universes might be a past.
    What i mean is, there could be infinite number of Big-Bangs and Big-Crunches.
    Please add if you have any further contributions to this point.

    • Aslam,

      I cannot imagine a theory that is less parsimonious. (http://www.answers.com/parsimony)

    • Forrest Charnock says:

      If there are an infinite number of universes, a religious belief that even if true could never be known, then please and try to see how absurd it sounds to the non-believer.

      If there are an infinite number of universes anything that can happen has happened, is happening now, and will always continue to happen.

      In other words on some planet Madalyn Murray O’Hair is a tele-evangelist , Bill Clinton is an advocate of abstinence , Clint Eastwood is a “Sissy Harry” , Elvis Presley is a Gangster Rapper, and 4 + 4 =2 .

      • Jon says:

        Sure, in some universes there are different versions of us and some with none of us. Some where life is totally different and some where the Atlanta Falcons win the Super Bowl every year!

  11. Shishir Gyanwali says:

    As We Know That There Are Different Religion..According To Hindu Religion As I am Hindu God Has Created Different Labels or Stages or Era Of Life..But What About Other Religion Why They are Different From Hindu Religion??If it is So Than There Might Be Thousands Of Gods Commanding In Different Part Of Universe..Or They Are Different In Shape, Size & Appearance..

    • Forrest Charnock says:

      Dear Shishir :

      That is a very good question.
      The Hindu religion [as well as all non Abrahamic religions] presuppose the eternity of matter whereas the most proved law of physics, thermodynamics clearly indicates a finite universe.
      The Muslim religion which is a combination of Christianity,Judaism, and Arabian animism is disqualified because Allah is capricious so the laws of nature would not exist in such a creators universe.

      The only religion that pre-supposes a creator of time , space and matter is Judeo-Christianity . All are free to believe as they choose but science was still born in all other cultures beside Post-Reformation Christian Europe.
      There is a reason for that. If there are millions of Gods there is no reason to believe they would all work in harmony to create universal laws .
      Without the assumption of an orderly creator God science , as we know it, cannot exist.

  12. Lex says:

    Why did God create the world?

    • Forrest Charnock says:

      Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

      Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

  13. bugz says:

    i think you’ve just seen the movie “the one” starring jet li when you wrote this article. i’m amazed by what you said about the precision of speed of the movement of articles in order to form the universe but i find the idea of multiple universes funny.

  14. Stevo says:

    Atheists often ask me this question, and I dont know answer on it.

    Question: Is God Omniscient ? If so, do we have free will?

  15. Forrest Charnock says:

    It seems that the BB has become unquestionable dogma to atheists and “theistic evolutionists” alike. A theist by definition believes in the creator God and revelation but evolution is by definition an explanation of life from a purely naturalistic viewpoint.
    Does that not make the term “theistic evolutionists” an oxymoron?

  16. John says:

    Hey,

    I just introduced this site to my friend, and this part “A Trillion Galaxies – but as far as physicists know, only ours can support life” – a little problem. Question from my friend: “Life” is our earthly definition of life. She says that surely there can be life out there not confined to our standards of life. Is there any way to disprove this?

  17. Gabriel says:

    For any atheists who still have questions on this subject, I humbly suggest they read the very illuminating “There is a God. How the world’s most notorious atheist changed his mind” by Antony Flew. Flew is the most influential and the only systematic atheist philosopher of the last five decades. He has a chapter there titled “Did the universe know we were coming?” where he details the notion of fine-tuning and concludes, to the scandal of his atheist disciples (like Richard Dawkins) that “the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind”. On another chapter titled “How did life go live?” he speaks of the significance of code (as Perry Marshall does) and concludes, with Nobel Prize-winning physiologist George Wald: “mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and condition of physical reality…the stuff of which physical reality is constructed is mind-stuff.” I close with a quote from p. 155: “The laws of nature, life with its teleological organization, and the existence of the universe can only be explained in the light of an Intelligence that explains both its own existence and that of the world. Such a discovery of the Divine does not come through experiments and equations, but through and understanding of the structures they unveil and map.”

    Blessings

  18. RAJIB says:

    I think when a man works for all not for itself its work is known to all as the function of the god, but in contrast when the same person for self interest its work is out of the function of the god, and has become devil /imp, there can’t exit the god in the work. So the good work is the symbol of the god, for example, in the past those who born in the world for all called angel of the god, the main function of them was in guiding the world a right way, so in the world whatever doing well are on the bliss of the god. So i think aren’t the egalitarian works the scenario of the god?

  19. mohit mehlawat says:

    i fully concede to your point , but is it possible to say that every kind of science was present there during this big bang.And is it possible to say that there could be some other universe existing

  20. recai says:

    scientists say that there are black holes in universe. and they are not visible. a black hole is so dense that it is something like compressing the sun into a walnut. that means instead of a sun we got a walnut. so, there is everything in nothing. just see the force of someone.