Creation Moment 5/22/2016 - Why Creation ex-nihilo rather than big bang ex-nihilo

In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God.

All things were made by him;

and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 1:1,3

"The fine-tuning necessary for life to exist on a planet is nothing compared with the fine-tuning required for the universe to exist at all.
For example, astrophysicists now know that the values of the four fundamental forces –

gravity,

the electromagnetic force,

and the ‘strong’

and ‘weak’ nuclear forces

were determined less than one-millionth of a second after the big bang. Alter any one value and the universe could not exist. For instance, if the ratio between the nuclear strong force and the electromagnetic force had been off by the tiniest fraction of the tiniest fraction – by even one part in 100,000,000,000,000,000 – then no stars could have ever formed at all. Feel free to gulp. … " CNS