SpaceX CEO and owner of social media platform X, Elon Musk, recently sat down for an interview with podcaster Katie Miller, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller, where he dipped his toe — ever so slightly — into the massive swimming pool of theological reflection. His thoughts during the conversation were brief but profound when you compare them to the comments he previously made about God and the origins of the universe.
I believe his comments show a broader cultural shift away from an atheistic, materialist worldview and back toward a far more sensible theistic view that attributes the creation of the universe to an all-knowing, all-powerful, benevolent Creator. When we apply the rules of logic correctly and consistently, we don’t end up with any other viable explanation.
During the conversation, Miller asked Musk whom he looked “up to the most.” He reflected for a moment before — shockingly — replying, “The Creator.” Keep in mind that this is a man who once claimed our reality might be a computer simulation being played like a video game. Maybe he still thinks that is possible. However, the fact that he leans toward there being a Creator counts as a step in the right direction.
Miller followed up by asking Musk about his “current position on God.” He responded, “God is the Creator.”
“You don’t believe in God, though, do you?” Miller pressed.
“I believe this universe came from something; people have different labels,” Musk answered. Again, it’s a step in the right direction. However, Musk didn’t give an exact answer about what “God” means to him. He didn’t explain who he thinks God is or whether he simply views “God” as a “force” like in Star Wars — impersonal and distant from His creation. These questions matter. The answers determine where your soul spends eternity.
🚨 JUST IN: Elon Musk is asked about whether he believes in God
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KATIE MILLER: Who do you look up to the most?
ELON: The Creator.
MILLER: What's your position on God?
ELON: God is the Creator.
MILLER: You don't believe in God though, do you?
ELON: Well, I believe this… pic.twitter.com/mY363X1Y00
Hopefully, people in Musk’s life who faithfully follow Christ and understand the gospel will take the time to preach the truth about Jesus to him. Every Christian has a duty to pray for unbelievers to repent of their sins, trust in Christ, and be baptized into the church. It’s especially important to pray for individuals with Musk’s level of cultural influence, because winning their souls to Christ also creates strategic advantages for building and advancing the Kingdom of God.
Imagine how many souls would hear the gospel and come to faith through Musk’s testimony. The number is truly incalculable.
As I said, I firmly believe Musk’s comments about God reflect a cultural shift away from an atheistic, materialistic worldview. In the early 2000s, the “new atheists,” such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins, dominated the conversation. Books like Dawkins’ The God Delusion convinced many people weak in the faith to forsake Christ and indulge every sinful pleasure they could sink their teeth into.
However, as Bob Dylan famously said, the times are a-changin’. Scientists continue to pour out more and more data showing that the universe had a starting point — a beginning — which means it needed a “first cause.” Every effect, according to logic, has a cause. That pattern stretches all the way back to the “first cause,” which must be an “uncaused cause.” Only an eternal, self-existent God provides a logical explanation for a true “uncaused cause.”
Most people are waking up to the fact that denying God’s existence defies logic. Even diehard atheists in pop culture, like podcaster and UFC commentator Joe Rogan, have started to shift their worldview concerning the Creator. Rogan has even begun attending church — something that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.
In an interview with TikTok sensation Cody Tucker on The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan said, “People will be incredulous about the resurrection of Jesus Christ, but yet they’re convinced that the entire universe was smaller than the head of a pin and, for no reason anybody’s ever adequately explained to me… instantaneously became everything?”
Rogan, who previously said he had a difficult experience in Catholic school that pushed him toward atheism, explained that he began thinking more deeply about the soul and other spiritual matters after his grandfather died.
“Seeing my grandfather in his casket, I started considering a soul,” he said. During his conversation with Tucker, the two discussed whether the universe could exist without a Creator or whether God and the universe might be the same thing. Rogan said he believes the idea of something eternal makes far more sense than the universe spontaneously popping into existence from nothing.
“Wouldn’t it be crazier if there wasn’t something at one point in time?” he asked. Now he’s asking the right questions and landing on the right conclusions. “There couldn’t be nothing and then all of a sudden everything.”
Rogan then quoted ethnobotanist Terence McKenna, saying, “Science only asks you for one miracle. It wants you to believe in one miracle — the Big Bang,” before concluding later, “I’m sticking with Jesus.”
The time is ripe for Christians to stop being apathetic and start zealously proclaiming the gospel, as souls around the world begin awakening to a reality mankind tried desperately to bury: God exists, and you are beholden to Him.
