In what's being hailed as a stunning scientific discovery, researchers say they've found solid evidence for the Big Bang. The research shows that the universe grew so quickly, it left ripples in patterns of light, visible in the very far reaches of the universe. Here's how The Washington Post described the discovery: "In the beginning, the universe got very big very fast, transforming itself in a fraction of an instant from something almost infinitesimally small to something imponderably vast, a cosmos so huge that no one will ever be able to see it all. This is the premise of an idea called cosmic inflation—a powerful twist on the big-bang theory—and…it received a major boost from an experiment at the South Pole called BICEP2. A team of astronomers … announced that it had detected ripples from gravitational waves created in a violent inflationary event at the dawn of time."

USA Today's coverage reported, "[The universe] underwent a fast and incomprehensibly massive growth spurt in its earliest infancy." Rod Dreher writes, "There was nothing, and then, in an instant, there was something. It's almost like somebody created the cosmos out of nothing." And James Emery White adds, "In other words, as we might say, it was a start of biblical proportions. Miraculous, even. I mean, who or what can go beyond the speed of light and spread out the entire universe instantly from a single explosion? Sounds kind of like an 'in the beginning, God created' thing to me."