Scientists who subscribe to the the
Big Bang Theory seem compelled to seek out some earlier cause for each event in their chain. Everything happens, they reason, because something else happened first. So, for instance,
this astronomer argues that the “highly concentrated ball of matter” from which the
universe is supposed to have begun was the product of decaying photons.
We might try to frame this sort of argument in the
language of the book of Hebrews by saying this: something “visible” (in this
example, light) eventually gave rise to “what is seen” (in this case, matter).
But obviously the writer of Hebrews would disagree with that formulation.
