Do you think it's possible for the "Big Bang Theory" and the creation story to be one and the same thing?

Question

What I mean is, perhaps God created the "big bang". And those 7 days were actually billions of years?
I am not sure if God does exist... or if the "big bang" ever really happened.
But is it possible for both to exist within a certain context of each other?
I'd really like to know what other people's answers are... for this is a question that I have yet to find a "sufficient" answer too.

Answer 1

The problem is one of interpretation. Some religions interpret the bible (or whatever book they quote as their primary reference) literally, others do not.

Only when the bible is interpreted literally is there a creationism dilemma. Hence, if the bible is interpreted as a parable, part historical record and part story....intended to promote morality and good behavior, there is no conflict. A creator could very well have created the universe in a big bang. Therefore, it is important to remember that for many religions there is no conflict. If literal interpretation does not apply, then the Big Bang could very well have been implied by Genesis.

With advances in science, such as genitics and discoveries in archeology, the literalists will find themselves ever more challenged to defend a literal interpretation of the bible. On the other hand, atheists tend to use Darwin to imply there must be no God, as they claim sheer randomness and the process of elimination created mankind. The problem with the Darwinists is Darwin only covers one small aspect of the entire story of creation. He talks about the evolution of species. He does not address the question of how the universe was created....or if a God created it. Hence, those that reference Darwin's work as evidence there is no God are really saying, they've found a problem with the literal interpretation of the bible, therefore, it must be false and there is no God. Hardly a very good analytical approch to studying the problem, as it is not really a rational argument....since they have not proven there is no God....only found some issue with a literal interpretation of the bible.

The truth, whether you believe it or not, is nobody on earth today "knows" if there is a God or not. The word "knows" here meaning they not only "believe" but can also "prove" there is or is not a God. Some people choose to take a leap of faith, others simply follow blindly, and still others tend not to believe. Perhaps this is by design of the uneverse....we'll never know for sure and it all comes down to what you believe.

I think every one at least agrees the universe is an incredible place and immensly complex. Mankind, for all his ingenuity, could hardly come close to creating (not to be confused with cloning) something as seemingly simple as an ant. Yet in my backyard, more magically appear every day.

Answer 2

Hi, Well in one context yes...And God said let be so and "bang" it happened, but wait, if you read Geneses 1:1 and on there was no "bang" It just was the moment God the Creator spoke it. Also you have to have a understanding of the original language which was written by Noah or Moses (I can't recall) but what the word "DAY" means is a 24 hrs. Think about it nothing in the entire existens of man that we have created has remained unchanged it all breaks down. Even nature is breaking down. And it is against the very laws of nature for something to improve without outside influence (2nd law thermodynamics). Therefore for a big bang to create anything is impossible. Gooogle this and see what you find out, but read diligently, don't expect to walk away with the first thing you read.

Answer 3

I evolution and big bang theory as completely differnent concepts. I have zero faith in the Big Bang theory. We know far too little about the universe to even intelligently speculate about it's origions. On the other hand we can observe actual evolution that's taken place in the span of a human lifetime. So we can see evolution at work. Whether the theory is flawed or whether it actually applies the way we think it does in human origions for example does not mean that evolution is not taking place before our very eyes.

So Genisis is a very good way to explain away such troubling questions as how the world got here in such a way that scientific advances would not make it irrelivent but that could be understood by a culture which possess zero science at the time you described the concepts too them. I agree that days represent thousands of years in the story of Genisis not literal revolutions of the Earth which would have no meaning to an entity such as God.

So they are two totally different concpets without any conection whatsoever. The theory of evolution does not pretend or care to know about how the earth came to be. It only deals with the evolvment of species and how survival traits affect this evolution.

If I were to attempt to explain such a complex concept as the creation of a world to a simple shepard, Genisis would be an effective way to make abstract concepts concrete enough to be understood by people of that time period. While people may have been less intellilgent during Biblical times it was not very much less intelligent. People of those times however had far less knowledge, far more superstition and lived in a society that was considerably less mature. So to explain something to them would be like explaining to a child. You have to use metaphors and abstractions to gloss over areas where lack of basic science would make such information incomprehendable. This is why I have never believed Genisis to be literal. How could you possibly explain the creation of a world to a shepard who likely had no education beyond how to tend a flock and how not to get scammed by passing traders? Even modern society, the average person is unlikely to be able to comprehend anything but a vaugue overview of the proces of planet creation.

Answer 4

I am sure that God exists. Perhaps there might be room for a big bang in God's creative action, but only as God's sovereign choice and not as a necessity for the world to come into existence.
So, if there has been a big bang, I think it should be in the following sense:

Big Bang Theory: God spoke and bang, it happened!

Answer 5

No, not possible.

See if you believe in God then you believe that he created everything for a reason. In other words he didn't leave anything he created for us to chance.

The big bang therory is that all matter was at one spot and then exploded into the universe. This leaves everything to chance.

As for the 7 days being billions of years, you are right. See the 7 days are in Gods time, not ours.

I can prove Gods time is different then our own, but that is not your question. If you want e-mail me and I will show you.

Answer 6

If God the Creator is eternal, then there must have been something before the Big Bang. It could have been another universe that ended with a big bang that created the present universe. And before the previous universe, there was also a big bang that ended the universe before that. You have an Alpha-Omega cycle of creation ad infinitum.

Answer 7

No they are really incompatible with each other. The "Big Bang Theory" says that all the elements in the universe (that were just out there in the first place) came together to form our galaxy and eventually life on Earth all by pure chance. The creation story is one of intelligent design - the elements didn't get together on their own or by chance but by a designer with a purpose in mind. One view holds to a designer with a purpose and the other view denies a designer and embraces a more "it was sheer luck that all of this happened the way it did" approach.

Answer 8

First things first, "And God said let there be light and there was Light" and "In the beginning God created..." yes when God said something there might have been a "big bang" but lets see what God really said, "evening and morning, even and morning were the second day... in the first chapter of Gen. evening to evening, sundown to sundown that is twenty four hours for each seven of the days it took Him to create us right. By the way He rested ON THE SEVENTH DAY not the first day of the week and blessed it, its called the Sabbath, did you know that the sabbath ties the creator with the creation. sundown friday til sundown sat. is the Sabbath, no where does God say to change to the first day of the week, there should in every major town a Seventh Day Adventist church near you. free bible lessons www.itiswritten.com talk to me [e-mail]

Answer 9

Of course. God could have chosen to create the world any way he desired. The complexity that we see would still be a God given miracle through the process of evolution starting with a "big bang." There are respected theologians who hold to this view, such as Clark Pinnock.

Answer 10

YES.........

The Quran on the Origin of the Universe:
The science of modern cosmology, observational and theoretical, clearly indicates that, at one point in time, the whole universe was nothing but a cloud of ‘smoke’ (i.e. an opaque highly dense and hot gaseous composition).1 This is one of the undisputed principles of standard modern cosmology. Scientists now can observe new stars forming out of the remnants of that ‘smoke’ (see figures 10 and 11).





Figure 10: A new star forming out of a cloud of gas and dust (nebula), which is one of the remnants of the ‘smoke’ that was the origin of the whole universe. (The Space Atlas, Heather and Henbest, p. 50.)





Figure 11: The Lagoon nebula is a cloud of gas and dust, about 60 light years in diameter. It is excited by the ultraviolet radiation of the hot stars that have recently formed within its bulk. (Horizons, Exploring the Universe, Seeds, plate 9, from Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc.) (Click on the image to enlarge it.)


The illuminating stars we see at night were, just as was the whole universe, in that ‘smoke’ material. God has said in the Quran:

Then He turned to the heaven when it was smoke... (Quran, 41:11)

Because the earth and the heavens above (the sun, the moon, stars, planets, galaxies, etc.) have been formed from this same ‘smoke,’ we conclude that the earth and the heavens were one connected entity. Then out of this homogeneous ‘smoke,’ they formed and separated from each other. God has said in the Quran:

Have not those who disbelieved known that the heavens and the earth were one connected entity, then We separated them?... (Quran, 21:30)

Dr. Alfred Kroner is one of the world’s renowned geologists. He is Professor of Geology and the Chairman of the Department of Geology at the Institute of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. He said: “Thinking where Muhammad came from . . . I think it is almost impossible that he could have known about things like the common origin of the universe, because scientists have only found out within the last few years, with very complicated and advanced technological methods, that this is the case.”Also he said: “Somebody who did not know something about nuclear physics fourteen hundred years ago could not, I think, be in a position to find out from his own mind, for instance, that the earth and the heavens had the same origin.”

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