His expressed views on creation were that although he was an "agnostic, and not a believer",[6] it seems to him that "the curtain drawn over the mystery of creation will never be raised by human efforts, at least in the foreseeable future"[6] due to "the circumstances of the Big Bang-the fiery holocaust that destroyed the record of the past".[6] With the discovery of the Big Bang, Jastrow began to hold a belief that, if there was a beginning to the universe, there was also a Creator.