What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most remarkable of all is the fact that in science, as in the Bible, the world begins with an act of creation.

Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.

The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.

Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same: the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.

The chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply, at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy.

The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.

The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.