To many humans, God, and for that matter, Jesus Christ, remain a mystery, mainly because of ignorance. While Apostle Paul who was wicked Saul, In the Bible Book of Ephesian 3:1-12 speaks of his mission being to preach the gospel to the Gentiles, and stresses in Ephesians 1:11 that all things are done according to God’s plan, and that according to his plan.

God chose us to be his people in union with Jesus Christ because of his own purpose, based on what he had decided from the very beginning, many humans reject God and dismiss him as a fiery story of the Jews and Jesus Christ being God’s son as another fiery story. They reject the God’s submission that he is the Creator of the Universe and everything in it and that he did it in six days and rested on the seventh day.

In Ephesians 3: 3-6 Paul explains why Jesus is a mystery to many, when he writes: “The mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I wrote above in a few words, a reading of which will enable you to perceive my understanding of the mystery of Christ. In former generations this mystery was not made known to humankind, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit: that is, the Gentiles have become fellow heirs, members of the same body, and sharers in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel”.

In Ephesians 3:8-9, he confirms that Jesus Christ was a purposely hidden mystery in or by God himself, and that God was Creator of everything when he writes, “Although I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given to me to bring to the Gentiles the news of the boundless riches of Christ, and to make everyone see what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in or by God who created all things….”

In Romans 16:25-27, Paul writes, “Now to God who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the proclamation of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but is now disclosed, and through the prophetic writings is made known to all the Gentiles, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith – to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen

Accordingly, Paul’s task is to explain this revelation of “the mystery of Christ” through the writings of the “former generations,” of those to whom the revelation was “hidden” and “kept secret.”

I am a Conservation Biologist with a difference, just like many other scientists, some of whom I revealed to you in my article “Does God really exist?” I accept the existence of God and the revelation of “the mystery of Jesus Christ. The mystery of Christ, unlike for past generations from which it was hidden and kept secret, has been fully revealed to me. I add my visions I wrote about in my article “Does God really exist, I would be stupid to continue, like the others, to be obstinate to God’s existence and the mystery of Jesus Christ. I remain a scientist knowledgeable about the Theory of Evolution and the theory of Big Bang but also having a high affinity to the theory of Creation as far more of truth than theory.

I have taught evolutionary biology and the Big Bang Theory of the universe and everything it came to be. However, this has not prevented me from taking Creation Science seriously. I accept that an intelligent being – God – guided from A to Z – the emergence of the Universe and everything in it, including Man, Homo sapiens. I, therefore regard the explanatory powers of the theories of evolution and Big Bang as inferior to the explanatory power of Theory of Creation.

One thing I refused to accept, even as I was teaching Big Bang cosmology to my zoology students at university was that life could arise out of a big bang and accidentally. On December 7, 2023, there was a huge bang when several vehicles were involved in a terrible accident involving a Fuso truck, 13 cars and two motorcycles on Northern Bypass at Namboole Roundabout in Uganda. There was so much wreckage of both vehicles and human bodies and two people died. There was a lot of wailing by the people trapped in the wreckage. What was of interest to me was not the accident, because accidents in Uganda have become as common as malaria, poverty and hunger, but what was described by eyewitnesses as a big bang.

When I heard of the big bang, my mind rushed back to the early 1970s. That is when in 1972 Big Bang was introduced to me as a student of zoology at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, by Dr Pearson the theory of Big Bang to the first-year class of zoology in Prof Msangi’s Department of Zoology. Prof Msangi was the head of department of zoology. My mind also rushed back to Makerere University, Uganda, where I taught zoology in Dr Pantaleo Kasoma’s department of zoology, including the theory of Big Bang, from 1991 to 2009. Of course, all along debate raged on the explanatory values of evolutionary theory, Big Bang theory and creationary theory of how the universe and everything in it came to be.

I read about all the three theories extensively on my own 53 years ago. I still do long after I retired from the world of academics. I follow the controversies and clashes. However, despite having been an academic in evolutionary science and Big Bang cosmology for years, I have never accepted that evolution and Big Bang have adequate explanatory value of the emergence of the Universe and everything in it but creation theory does. The question has remained in my mind: Can Evolution and Big Bang cosmology really prove the non-existence of God?

In this article, I want to deal with the Big Bang part of the question and for once and all establish its relevance to explaining the emergence of the Universe and all beings (living and non-living): Can Big Bang cosmology or theory really prove the non-existence of God?

So that I don’t’ forget, let me mention that one thing is true. Homosexuals don’t want to be told that the Creation Theory is fact, because virtually of them don’t believe God exists. Neither do they believe heterosexuality, which many believe was created by God to reproduce individuals of species and perpetuate species from one generation to another, is the only sexuality in the world. To them the most accepted cosmological model explaining the origin and evolution of the universe is the Big Bang theory. They love because to them it accomplishes the act of removing God from the system of things. At least a gay actor, Jim Parsons, tried to launch what he called “Big Bang TV Series. He abandoned it because he thought it would cause trouble if he came out as gay while his Big Bang Theory Series was still running. However, the concept of Big Bang Theory Gay persists. Whatever the, case, since virtually all homosexuals detest the existence of God and any divine role in the emergence of the Universe and all things in it, it is the Big Bang theory of evolution that makes sense to them. It is also a weapon for them to fight or contradict the Creation Theory.

Just as the father of genetics – the science of the minute building units of life called genes in our structural units of every organ in our bodies and those of other living things – was a Catholic Monk called Gregor Mendel (1822 -1884), thereby discovering the basic principles of heredity long before the discovery of DNA and genes, the father of Big Bang Theory was a Catholic priest called Abbé Georges Lemaître (1894-1966).

The Big Bang Theory is the idea that the universe began as just a single point, then expanded and stretched to grow as large as it is right now, and it is still stretching. The idea would be attractive to anybody who does not accept God created anything. The astronomer, cosmologist turned priest, was the one who  in the very early 20^th Century formulated the modern big-bang theory, which holds that the universe began in a cataclysmic explosion of a small, primeval “super-atom”. Putting it another way, we can say that the big bang is how astronomers and cosmologists explain the way the universe began in contrast to the way the Word of God explains it. The big idea of Lamaitre, which occurred in his brain in 1927, was that a very long time ago, the universe started as just a single point. And that the universe stretched and expanded to get as big as it is now, and that it could keep on stretching. But then two years later, another astronomer, Edwin Hubble, notices through his telescope, that other galaxies were moving away from us on Earth.

The farthest galaxies were moving faster than the ones close to us. This means if some things were moving away, then long ago everything was close to every other thing, and most likely interconnected. This means that everything we can see in our universe today – stars, planets, comets, asteroids were not there at the beginning. The question is where did they come from? According to Lamaitre, a super long time was involved. Scientists have calculated that the universe is 13,800,000,000 (13.8 billion) years old, which is a very long time.  

All this was good science, but does not explain why there are so many species, so many stars, so many planes, so many comets, so many asteroids and how exactly they all came to be?

Scientists have estimated that there are around 8.7 million species of plants and animals in existence. However, only around 1.2 million species have been identified and described so far, most of which are insects. This means that millions of other organisms remain a complete mystery.

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe in 2023. If our galaxy has around 100 billion planets, and there are one trillion other galaxies, and each of them probably has as many planets, we can multiply that together to get 100 sextillion planets in the universe,”. (That’s a 1 followed by 23 zeroes.)

According to NASA, as of January 2023, the current number of known comets is 3,743, although billions more are thought to be orbiting the sun. Our sun is really one big star. And there are billions and billions of stars in our universe. Scientists have also calculated that it’s about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit inside the sun’s core and more than 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit on its surface. There are a lot of stars, but at every moment stars die and new stars ignite. In our own galaxy (the Milky Way) there are at least 300 billion stars. We call stars “Suns” when they are the centre of a planetary system, like how Earth and the other planets orbit our sun.

Beyond our observable Universe lies the unobservable Universe, which ought to look just like the part we can see. The way we know that is through observations of the cosmic microwave background and the large-scale structure of the Universe.

Scientists say the unobservable Universe, on the other hand, must be at least 23 trillion light years in diameter, and contain a volume of space that’s over 15 million times as large as the volume we can observe. We really don’t know what is in the unobservable Universe. We don’t know how much of the unobservable Universe, Man, Homo sapiens will ever be able see and determine what is there.

Therefore, the Big Bang Theory cannot explain how all those mysteries came about. Neither can it dismiss the idea that an intelligent being was involved in the creation of our observable universe or the unobservable universe.

This means that human knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insights are inadequate to explain the existence or non-existence of God. To know that God exists we must listen to him, take the visions and miracle he gives us seriously and take the marvel of our observable Universe seriously and the existence of the unobservable Universe seriously. Surely the Big Bang is outside all this. Our Universe and everything in it cannot have come about as an accident. Although we don’t know what is in the unobservable Universe, itself and whatever is there is not by accident: Big Bang. We should not glorify ignorance and use it to deny the existence of God. Ignorance is a vise, not a virtue.

No Laimetri’s Big Bang theory should not evoke to block knowledge of God, his Word, the mysteries surrounding his wonders, his predictions and plans. God is central to Our Observable Universe and the Unobservable Universe. Science has enabled us to know so much about our observable and a lot about what is in it but a lot about the Universe and what is in it remains unknown. And almost nothing is known about the Unobservable Universe.

God has given us some knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insights to delve into our Universe and some of what is in it and to do so much in it, However, he has left the rest of the knowledge, wisdom, understanding and insights about the Unobservable Universe to himself. Since he has pronounced that there will be an end when the Earth and heavens will intermingle to make a new system, that might happen long before Man, Homo sapiens has known anything about the Unobservable Universe.

It is dangerous for the rest of humanity to be hoodwinked by the ignorance of God that people in Europe, USA, Canada and other there is big presence of the ancestors of European criminals that were exported from the European continent, or those that migrated to seek opportunities in the lands of other people such as the Maoris of New Zealand, Aboriginals of Australia and the Red Indians of the Americas. This is indeed where God’s existence is being rejected or denied and behaviors and practices of gayism and/or homosexuality being glorified and forced on other people, especially in Africa. They are tying foreign aid and other networks to how quickly or how slowly other people join them in abandoning or rejecting God to practice gayism and/or homosexuality. They have advocated globally for it to be included among the human rights such as the right to life, the right to development, the right to good governance, the right to culture, the right to indignity, the right to worship and the right to water, food and energy.

Time will tell if they will universally succeed in using their glorified ignorance of God to conquer his predictions and plans for humanity and the Universe.

• A Tell report / By Prof Oweyegha-Afunaduula, a former professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences of the Makerere University, Uganda