Dr. John Mather is the senior project scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope, a new tool that helps astronomers see galaxies even further away than we ever have before. The data has confounded current models of galaxy growth. Dr. Mather says (https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/features/bigBangQandA.html) the picture of a firecracker at the center of the universe is the wrong picture of the Big Bang. Rather, “It happened everywhere at once. . . . We don't know exactly when the universe made the first stars and galaxies—or how for that matter.”

We agree with Dr. Mather about what happened—something “happened everywhere at once.” But Dr. Mather doesn’t have a theory about how or why it happened. We do have a theory, and the theory that God created everything everywhere at once with his voice continues to fit the new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope. Secular science denies that theory because it starts with a foundational assumption denying supernatural (“above-nature”) causes for things. Secular science says, “We believe whatever caused the big bang wasn’t that, even though we can’t prove it wasn’t that.”

Although Dr. Mather does not support our theory for the genesis of the natural world, Jesus does. How do we know Jesus has any more idea what he is talking about than Dr. Mather does? Because Jesus rose from the dead, and John Mather hasn’t. The resurrection makes Jesus the greatest authority, and until someone else rises from the dead we’ll keep believing what he says.