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Scientists who are biblical Christians believe that a [[creation]] model of the biblical kind clearly predicted a beginning of the world, <ref name="LENNOX"/>{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements and the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same; the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy."''<ref name="Jastrow"/>|group=note}} and thus this can be considered as successful testable prediction giving the credit to predictive power of Biblical message.{{#tag:ref|In the more exact sense the Biblical message in this context is regarded to be a sort of testimony about things that are believed to had happened in the unobservable past. The predictive power of this message relates to actual discovery of scientific evidence inferring this testimony (claiming the World had the beginning) to be correct.|group=note}} They warn against the danger of being seduced by speculation masquerading as science {{#tag:ref|The [[Cosmic inflation]] theory that tries to account for several objections to the materialistic [[Big Bang]] model has been described by its partisan Alexei V. Filippenko as "seductively powerful".|group=note}} and they consider cosmic singularity to be compatible with creation of space, time, matter and energy ''ex nihilo'' (i.e. out of nothing) and often cite Arno Penzias, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate who stated in 1978 for [[The New York Times]] that "The best data we have (concerning the Big Bang){{#tag:ref|To avoid confusion, an explanatory note should be made that the ‘big bang’ in this context obviously connotes the concept of the rapid ''expansion of the universe'' formulated to interpret the evidence (such as the Hubble’s law<ref>{{cite web