Einstein's General Relativity and the Creation of the Universe

In 1916, Albert Einstein asserted that time, matter, and space are interdependent. A subset of General Relativity and quite possibly the most famous mathematical equation in the world, E=MC² (energy equals mass times the speed of light squared), basically means that energy and mass are different forms of the same thing. Einstein's assertion of General Relativity has been proven accurate to five decimal places. The universe indeed had a beginning. Time, matter, and space did not always exist. If the only thing that exists is matter and matter did not always exist, can nothing create something?

In denial of the implications of General Relativity, Einstein introduced a variable in his calculations called a cosmological constant, which he later called "the greatest blunder of my life". In 1929, Einstein came to terms with the truth of his findings when he visited Mount Wilson Observatory in California to peer into the Hubble Telescope. He observed that the universe was expanding from a point in the past. In an article called "The World as I See It" published in Forum and Century in 1931, Einstein spoke of "a knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds".

Discoveries made by the following scientists and NASA satellites support General Relativity:

• 1919: During a solar eclipse British astrophysicist Arthur Eddington observed that the light rays of stars near the Sun bended towards the Sun's gravitational pull.
• 1922: Russian mathematician and cosmologist Alexander Friedmann exposed Einstein's cosmological constant as an algebraic error.
• 1927: After a decade of observations at Mount Wilson Observatory near Pasadena, California, American astronomer Edwin Hubble established that the distance between objects in the universe were increasing with time.
• 1964: Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, two physicists developing an antenna for Bell Laboratories in New Jersey accidentally discovered cosmic microwave background radiation, radiant energy resulting from the creation of universe.
• 1992: NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) took infrared photos of the wispy clouds of matter in space known as cosmic microwave background radiation, and measured them with extreme precision. In 2003, NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) confirmed the findings of COBE and took photos five times sharper.

Merriam-Webster's Dictionary Online defines science as the "knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method". Causality, a foundation of the scientific method, presumes that a cause must precede an effect. Therefore, logical thought would follow that the universe and everything in it was created by a being outside of time, matter, and space. Biblical evidence points to the eternality of the Creator: "...the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come"-Revelation 4:8, the power of the Creator: "...he upholds the universe by the word of his power... "-Hebrews 1:3, and the intelligence of the Creator: "it is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens."-Jeremiah 51:15.

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