These are real findings, stated as carefully as we can. After each one we say what it does not show.
1. The universe had a beginning
For most of history, serious thinkers assumed the universe was eternal. Then expansion and the cosmic microwave background pointed to a hot, dense start about 13.8 billion years ago. When Georges Lemaître, the physicist who first proposed it, was accused of sneaking in Genesis, it may have mattered that he was also a Catholic priest. He himself asked people not to read theology into it.
What it does not show: a creator. Physics cannot yet say what happened at the very start, or whether “before” even applies.
2. First there was light
For about 380,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe was an opaque glowing plasma. Then it cooled and the light escaped, and we can still detect that first light in every direction.
What it does not show: that this is what Genesis 1:3 describes. It is a resonance, and a striking one.
3. There is a maximum speed
Nothing with information can outrun light, and the limit is the same for every observer. A programmer would call that a hard cap in the system, and would be using a metaphor.
What it does not show: that someone chose it. It is built into the geometry of spacetime as we understand it.
4. There may be a smallest scale
At the Planck length, about 10⁻³⁵ meters, our theories stop working. Many physicists suspect that space itself is not smooth at that scale, though nobody has shown that reality comes in pixels.
What it does not show: a grid. Experiments have looked for signs of a lattice and have not found one.
5. The world obeys mathematics
Physicist Eugene Wigner called this “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics.” Equations written by people at desks predict the behavior of galaxies. Nobody has a good account of why that should be so. It sits well next to John’s Logos.
What it does not show: a mind behind the math. Tegmark, for one, thinks the universe simply is math.
6. The constants look tuned
Change the strength of gravity or the mass of the electron by a small amount and you get no stars, or no chemistry. Whether this needs explaining is hotly contested, and the leading non-theistic answer is a multiverse where we are bound to find ourselves in a livable corner.
What it does not show: a tuner. We do not know how likely any other values were, and that number is what the argument needs.
7. Information may be the bottom layer
Black hole physics suggests that the information content of a region scales with its surface. The holographic principle takes that seriously. John Wheeler’s “it from bit” says physical things arise from yes-or-no questions.
What it does not show: that “In the beginning was the Word” is a physics claim. It is why this site exists, though.
So what do we do with it
The honest position is that coincidence is doing a lot of work here, and that may be fine. Coincidences happen. If this list makes you want certainty in either direction, that is the part to watch.