But now:

Enter Edwin Hubble and Melvin Slipher.

Slipher observed the Doppler effect on the planets (Police sirens are loud as they approach and change pitch as they pass).  The sound waves are crushed as they approach therefore have a high pitch and are stretched as they pass consequently they have a lower pitch.  From this it is possible to deduce the direction of the police car.  In a similar manner starlight is effected by moving toward or away from the observer.  Starlight is red shifted as it moves away from the observer and blue shifted as it approaches the observer.

George Lemaitre

Observed that most of the observable galaxies are red shifted, they are moving away from us.  This however does not mean that we are the centre of the universe.  Wherever we go in the universe we would observe that the galaxies are moving away.  Moving away from where?  A single point it would appear.  The universe had a beginning, a Genesis.

Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson 1964

Stumbled across an irritating hiss in their equipment when they were conducting an experiment.  After eliminating  every possible source (even pigeon droppings) in the horn of their antenna) they still had a hiss, a signal.  The hiss was something like the ripples in a pond when a large stone is thrown in they may be faint at the edge of the pond but they are nonetheless detectable.  They were listening to the "Afterglow of creation", the remnants of a very big bang, a beginning.

George Smoot

Whilst working on the COBE (Cosmic Background Experiment) they discovered.

"We also found that the universe is expanding with remarkably uniform speed in all directions.  There was no hint of asymmetry.  The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears FINELY ORCHESTRATED.  I wrote at the time of our observations.  Either conditions before the beginning were very regular, or PROCESSES WE DON'T YET KNOW ABOUT WORKED TO MAKE THE UNIVERSE EXTREMELY UNIFORM."  Wrinkles in time.   It seems to me that to be orchestrated it needed a conductor.

Eric Chaison

"It is not inconceivable that primal energy emerged a zero time from QUITE LITERALLY NOTHING, uncannily in accord with the time honoured expression WITHOUT FORM AND VOID, WITH DARKNESS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP.  The universe may well have been a case of Creatio ex nihilo, (out of nothing) Relatively Speaking

In 1993 so many scientists were plagued by what they were observing in the remarkably breathtaking symmetry in creation that they held a seminar during a conference entitled THE THEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF BIG BANG COSMOLOGY.  Their conclusion, "There is no doubt that a parallel exists between the big bang as an event and the christian notion of creation from nothing.  Scientists are beginning to find the fingers of God in the creation of the universe.

Stephen Hawking

Arguably the greatest mind alive today, famous for his wonderful book A Brief History of Time.  Hawking wears the mantle of the great Albert Einstein.  Hawking is famous for his work on the quantum level.  Hawking discovered that as vast and complex as the universe is on the cosmological level it is equally as vast and complex on the quantum level.  Many hoped that here at last the God issue would finally be laid to rest.  On the contrary Hawking discovered design that defies belief and a whole new mysterious world of Quarks, gluons and now M theory and super strings.  Hawking has often been asked difficult questions to which he often replies "You have to address that to God".  Hawking is on the verge of discovering the Theory of everything, GUT Grand Unified Theory.  The whole universe and and history quantified in one single mathematical equation rather like Einsteins E =Mc2.  Yet Hawking is famous for his quote "What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe" Why does the universe bother to exist?

"If we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists.  Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist.  If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason- for then we would know the mind of God"..

Michio Kaku

One of the modern theoretical physicists using Riemann's Metric Tensor and the old Kaluza-Klein theory has pushed the boundaries of quantum physics as far as the tenth dimension only to discover even greater order and wonderful symmetry in the devine watchmakers universe.

Heinz Pagels

"The drama and power of the dynamic universe overwhelmed me.  I learned that single galaxies contain more stars than all the human beings who have ever lived.... The reality of the immensity and duration of the universe caused a kind of 'existential shock' that shook me to the foundations of my being.  Everything that I had experienced or known seemed insignificant placed in that vast ocean of existence".

Albert Einstein

"I want to know how God created the world. I want to know his thoughts".

Finally

George Smoot

"Go back beyond the moment of creation- what then?  What was there before the big bang?  What was there before tome began? Facing this, the ultimate question, challenges our faith in the power of science to find explanations of nature.  The existence of a singularity - in this case the given, unique state from which the universe emerged is anathema to science, because it is beyond explanation.  there can be no answer to why such a state existed.  Is this, then, where the scientific explanation breaks down and God takes over, the artificer of that singularity, that initial simplicity?

Robert Jastow

Talking about the scientist:  "He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries"

 The Bible

"In the beginning GOD"