I had my doubts before article came out. The problem with the Big Bang theory is that it does not mention who lit the fuse that set off the bang.
Personally, I don’t think God just lit a galactic firecracker and then relied on the resulting explosion to put it all together. I like to think he spent seven days painting it all into place.
God had a string of Black Kat firecrackers
The article isn’t about the Big Bang being in doubt.
>The problem with the Big Bang theory is that it does not mention who lit the fuse that set off the bang.<
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That is not part of the scientist’s homework especially considering that, as a society, we are directed to get away from the concept that God is a reality.
If that were not the case, and we accept that God exists, we would not so much contemplate the Big Bang Theory but more the Author of it. It’s more important to contemplate the Creator than the Created.
Contemplating the latter without emphasis on the former is doing a disservice to science and oneself.
That's only partially true. The paper that put Hawking and Penrose in the public eye back in the 70s concluded that if the universe contains mass and if it is governed by the laws of special relativity, then it had to have a cause that is transcendent over matter, energy, space, and time. Hawking has been trying to get out of that bind ever since (ala A Brief History of Time), but that the universe of the big bang requires a transcendent entity is pretty solid physics at this point.
The only question is whether that Entity is sentient and personal or not. I would argue that the fine-tuning of the universe to make it suitable for life points to a personal, intelligent Creator rather than a blind source or process.
Ergo, the theist is on pretty solid ground to say that our current understanding of the universe points to the God of the Bible: A transcendent (outside of space), eternal (outside of time) Being of neither energy nor matter, One of virtually infinite power and intellect who is keenly interested in the creation and continuence of life.
Shalom.