We now know our universe started from a beginning that some refer to as the Big Bang.  This beginning of all beginnings raises a major question, what caused it?  Using the Basic Principle #2 of “Out of nothing comes nothing”, something beyond our universe had to cause the birth of our universe.  Something beyond our universe had to create space, time, and energy.  From Basic Principle #5, “Chance” could not have caused our universe to be created.

Our first Key Conclusion is that something beyond our universe had to cause our universe to be created.  Isn’t this cool; and you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to arrive at this basic Real Truth.  The only surprising aspect about this Real Truth is that most people have never been exposed to this important line of critical thinking.

Now there is a key phenomena that helps us to understand this “something” that created our universe: that when all potential possible outcomes are considered, both our universe and Earth are way too perfect for life.  Life would not exist if gravity, nuclear and electromagnetic forces, the size and luminosity of the Sun, the distance Earth is from the Sun, the Earth’s speed of rotation and nearly perfect circular orbit, just right gravitational lunar pull for moderate tides, the existence and placement of so many ores near the Earth’s surface, etc.... were different in the slightest¹.  Using Basic Principle #4 of “highly structured order where you would expect disorder”, infers an intelligent creator.  This specialization of Earth is impossibly unique even when taking into consideration that there are billions of galaxies with a billion stars each.

This means our highly ordered and structured universe and planet had to be created by an “intelligent being” outside of our universe, not just by “something”.

But what about life itself ..........