Why don't religous people believe in the Big Bang Theory?

Answer 1

What makes you think they don't ? I am semi religious and I believe in the big bang theory and evolution.

Answer 2

SOME peoples RELIGION makes them focus solely on the doctrine of the religion. RELIGION is a FORMULA so to speak. BELIEVING in something is a CHOICE. I BELIEVE in a lot of things which others do not. I BELIEVE that the BIBLE is likely a very truthful document but it can be INTERPRETED so differently by so many. PROOF of this is the DIFFERENT RELIGIONS which read from the same BOOK. Different religions have formed due to their belief systems. AS for the "BIG BANG" Only those who are naive and moderately unintelectual would INSTANTLY DISMISS SCIENCE because they have a built-in HATE-ON for science because they erroneously THINK that science negates religion. IF YOU LOOK AT QUANTUM PHYSICS, it makes BELIEF in the SUPERNATURAL or GODLIKE "STUFF" Believable! So, science can be a "friend" of "religion" in a way.
Incidently the "big bang" is a very complex concept that doesn't mean that there was an explosion and we all came from that, it is in a sense saying that there was "nothing" then "something" BUT that the "nothing" really wasn't "nothing" but "something" that "expanded" QUANTUM PHYSICS includes concepts such as things happening before they happened!! and THINGS having happened being an effect rather than just a cause etc. VERY CONFUSING.....
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Answer 3

There are two reasons. The first is that there has been given an account of how creation happened in the book of Genesis. When Jesus was on earth he asked the question, "If you don't believe the writings of Moses, how are you going to believe what I tell you?" (John 5, last verse). God puts what He had written as a whole of truth.

Secondly, it is impossible for the "big bang" to have ever happened. Einstein made a mistake when he stated that as a mass moves it gains greater mass. This is incorrect. As a mass begins moving, the energy at right angles to direction change into becoming part of the overall frequency.

There is an easy to understand three page writing at http://timebones.blogspot.com that explains this in an easy manner.

Answer 4

Beats me, too. Having a book religion may have some advantages, but the drawback is that we lose more and more of the context the original texts were written for. Assuming that the prophets and authors of the bible were exposed to the Greater Truth, they still had to face the impossible task to convey their limited understanding to their even more limited contemporaries. This results in the use of parables - fairly well documented from the speeches of Jesus, too. Nobody claims the universe is a vinyard just because one parable has us as vinyard workers.

Genesis 1 is a very advanced scientific text for the period it was written in, with very good guesses at what the eternal doubters called scientists later would find. Starting with non-space and space to be separated (as heavens and earth). Space (called earth in the context of the author) "was formless and empty".

"And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness."

No mention of sound effects other than divine words, but otherwise a fair description of what happened at the Big Bang - and there was light, by separation from darkness (absence of pretty much anything).

Answer 5

I consider myself s/w religious, and if you believe in creation, what else is the big bang but creation? The Bible version of creation is only something interpreted by people, and subject to errors. In order for God to have created the Earth, he would have to also created the sun, which is a star, and all the other stars in the Milky Way, along with all the billions of other galaxies in the universe, and the universe itself. You have to think larger than just the sun and planets. Earth resides in the universe, not just the solar system and galaxy. Most Christians I know do not understand or want to understand what's beyond the solar system. It conflicts with what the Bible states as to creation, just as the fact that the dinosaurs existed does. But as for myself, I believe there is a God, and his creation is much larger than we simple humans can fathom, and the Big Bang was just his way of creating "this" universe.

Answer 6

Why do you think, that religious people don't believe in the Big Bang theory?
It was actually even a catholic priest and astronomer, Abbé Georges Henri Lemaître, who came up with this theory.

Answer 7

I wouldn't call myself religious, but I am a christian. And I believ in the big bang theory only partly. I do believe that God created the earth, but how do we know that the actual way it happend isn't how scientists say it did? I believe in both.

Answer 8

Hi,

:) I don't think you need to be religious to believe in that.

The big bang is not even 100% exact. They know there was a huge bang, but don't know everything about it yet...

I am religious (believe in God) but this is science. Believing or not in the big bang will do you no good and no harm! No hell and no heavon...

Karl
http://www.freewebs.com/smithkarl/DaveBlogs.htm

Answer 9

Religious believe what's written in holly books. Things that been proven so far; Big bang wasn't mentionned and never been proven and never will be. In holly books, earth and the universe were created in 6 days. As it is in holly books, it's a fact so we better prove that.

Answer 10

I dont know. I'm a christain, and I dont know what I think about that. I sort of think that the big bang happened, but then part of me thinks something else happened. I honestly dont know. Nobody does.