Posted on 09/07/2014 2:08:27 PM PDT by EveningStar
In some ways, the history of science is the history of a philosophical resistance to mythical explanations of reality. In the ancient world, when we asked “Where did the world come from?” we were told creation myths. In the modern world, we are instead told a convincing scientific story: Big Bang theory, first proposed in 1927 by the Belgian Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître. It is based on observations that galaxies appear to be flying apart from one another, suggesting that the universe is expanding. We trace this movement back in space and time to nearly the original point of the explosion, the single original atom from which all the universe emerged 14 billion years ago.
While it is based on empirical measurement and quantitative reasoning, it is also a creation story, and therefore shares some of the traits of the stories that have come before. For one thing, it resonates with the ethos of the modern age—this is the era of big explosions, like those in White Sands and over Nagasaki. Also, like all creation stories, it explains in comprehensible language something which otherwise requires unobtainable categories of thought. After all, we cannot really know what the world was like before its creation. But we do see how things around us change, grow, are born, and die. And, like the ancients, we fashion these observations into the story of our creation.
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There is nothing empirical in the big bang, it is a fiction designed to make people believe something other than the Bible
What happened after “ let there be light “ ?
There was light indeed.
Big Bang in other words. That was one tremendous light.
And God separated the light from the darkness.
I.e. created energy and matter and vacuum.
Actually, the Big Bang Theory is just a restatement of Genesis 1:1. The only difference is that it doesn’t detail why the BB occurred or who caused it to happen.
Rabbi Nachmanides deduced the Big Bang from the Torah about 1200 years ago.
YVWH said “Be light” not “let there be light”
The Big Bang occurred ~13.7 billion years ago, whereas our Earth was created only 4.6 billion years ago. So, starlight predated earth by 9+ billion years, and our Sun's ignition as a light source predated Earth by a few million years.
For details, please visit Reasons.org.
Incorrect. Completely incorrect.
You should read about the ‘discoverer’ of the Big Bang.
Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître.
The hard left/anti bible crowd tried for decades to discredit the Big Bang. They came up with Steady State theory, and many other excuses.
But the more we investigate, the stronger the theory has become.
Now they try to co-opt the Big Bang.
The Big Bang theory is the story of our creation as documented by science.
We all have our opinions on how to interpret the frankly poetical expressions of the Bible.
I see no reason to limit their meaning, or to impose a limited version of our understanding of them.
In any case, “day” “night” “the deep” and even “the earth” most certainly don’t exclusively refer to our specific planet or our specific diurnal cycle. Otherwise we would be commuting the greater sacrilege of denying the true vastness of his creation. We can look out there for ourselves, now with the understanding he has given us, and it has revealed wonders and miracles far past our understanding.
Gods word will apply to our distant descendants in a widespread galactic empire; it behooves us to have the humility and foresight to try to understand it the way they will.
Science can establish the Big Bang beyond a reasonable doubt. What it cannot tell us is what banged and what caused it to bang, and against what.
Spirituality and religion can answer that question, but science can’t. The two support each other in many ways, but there is only so far science can go.
However, this vision from the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich may be unknowingly referencing the Big Bang:
“In this vision he showed me a little thing, the size of a hazelnut, and it was round as a ball. I looked at it with the eye of my understanding and thought “What may this be?” And it was generally answered thus: “It is all that is made.” I marvelled how it might last, for it seemed it might suddenly have sunk into nothing because of its littleness. And I was answered in my understanding: “It lasts and ever shall, because God loves it.”
Sorry, but The Bible is what is Correct
Read genesis 1-2
what is the order of Creation?
The Big Bang denies the order of Creation, denies when sin entered the world, denies the need for a savioour, because Jesus died for Adam’s sin, if there is no creation day 6 when men were created, there is no need for a saviour
whoever ‘created’ the big bang is an unbeliever and most likely died without Christ in their heart
that’s completely incorrect
the big bang theory denies the order of creation, denies the 6 literal days of creation, and puts long time periods into the theory, all un-provable and inaccurate
The Bible is what is correct
there was no big bang, especially to what you just said
The Earth was created before light, correct?
According to the big bang, nothing was created before the big bang
The Bible is correct
The six days of creation, Genesis 1:3 onward, do not discuss the creation of the universe. That’s covered in 1:1.
It is entirely consistent with the account to believe that God created the universe using a Big Bang, then after 13.8 billion years began preparing the earth for man’s habitation over the six days.
The first day opens with light appearing over the previously, verse 2, dark earth and sea.
This is what is wrong with a literal reading of the Bible, and worse, an unliterary literal reading. The Bible was written in the form of poetry, not in the form of an auto repair manual.
A day does not have to be a day, 24 hours, nor does it have to be anything other than a contextual frame useful to reach the people this bit of poetry was directed at, thousands of years ago. They understood “day”, they would not understand “an unthinkable amount of time, way beyond what our arithmetic can manage”. The Bible did not say what the “light” was, nor describe the nuclear physics of the sun, or define “light” as we understand it.
Etc. Ad infinitum.
The big bang needed Someone to push the plunger.
because when Science disagrees with the Bible , it is wrong
God’s word is right, and proven right each time
sometimes, we dont know how to yet, but, in time, you will see
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