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And the Bible starts with, “In the beginning...”
Didn’t need a Hawking or other “geniuses” to come up with the concept of “before time”, the beginning of it all, eternity that encompasses time, or a Creator that existed even before time....

[Hebrews 11:6]

There are numerous examples where the Bible makes testable claims which science was only able to verify 3,500 years later (dark matter and the universe's expansion are among them). The one you highlight is probably the most prominent.

For the skeptics, proofs such as Hawking/Penrose's theorems have moved the vast majority of doubting cosmologists into the deism camp, while many have become theists and even Christians. God encourages men to verify His claims: "Do not treat prophecies with contempt but test them all; hold on to what is good..." 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21

[Hebrews 11:6]

Until the 1920s cosmologists assumed that Genesis 1:1 is wrong, that the universe has always existed (because evolutionists need quadrillions of years for life to arise). Lemaître and Hubble first provided observational proof of the universe's beginning, and later Hawking and Penrose delivered the theoretical proof.

Doubleday's and Cartright's contributions to the Big Inning remain controversial.