References:

1. Standard model of cosmology.

2. "On Guard " by William Lane Craig.

3. 7 main lines of scientific evidence that supports the conclusion for the beginning of the universe denoted by the acronym SHURGET.

4. "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist" by Frank Turek and Norman Geisler.

5. "God and the Astronomers" by Robert Jastrow.

6. Einstein's General Theory of Relativity in 1915.

7. 4 original solutions of Einstein's field equations: 1 in 1915 by Karl Schwarzschild, 2 in 1916 by Albert Einstein and Willem de Sitter, 1 in 1922 by Alexander Friedman, and 1 in 1927 by Georges Lemaitre.

8. Lemaitre's model Fred Hoyle derisively labeled as "the Big Bang."

9. Lemaitre was known as the father of the Big Bang theory and cosmology.

10. "Return of the God Hypothesis" by Stephen C. Meyer.

11. "New Proofs for the Existence of God" by Robert J. Spitzer.

12. "The Expanding Universe" history.aip.org

13. Article on Willem de Sitter, Encyclopedia.com.

14. "Big Bang Theory" in Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics by Norman Geisler.

This is episode 52.