You can think of space time as being a large sheet like a sheet of rubber, placing a steel ball bearing on it and warping it. You once said to me that what astronomers and scientists do is to probe the how of this vast engine and that the question of why is for theologians to address. To view them as adversaries is to misunderstand both, to understand neither. The great Einstein who apparently did not necessarily believe in a personal God, a God to whom he could pray was nonetheless deeply proud of his Jewish heritage, and he also said religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame. These two great intellectual pursuits in essence are attempting to answer different questions.
Scientists can explain in elaborate detail how a sun formed.
We can tell you right down to a fraction of a second what happened after the Big Bang. But so far we have no idea why the Big Bang. We don't know why we are here. We can tell you, we think, how the chemicals would naturally have combined to have made human life, human intelligence, and endowed us with the extraordinary ability to look around. Astronomers can explain much of that in detail, but we do not know if there is a who,and we all respect that there are laws in this cosmos grander and greater than we.