2006-09-03 15:52:51 · 9 answers · asked by chevytrk1232000@yahoo.com 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
There no reason to believe that both versions are not true. The big bang theory is based on science, the Godly creation theory is based on faith. These two understandings do not contradict each other, when you really think about them.
2006-09-03 16:01:00 · answer #1 · answered by Richard B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you're speaking of Creationism (or Intelligent Design) vs. Scientific Theories like the Big Bang Theory then the Big Bang Theory wins out every time.
The Big Bang Theory may one day be surplanted by a more accurate theory but based on current evidence it is the best explanation for the beginning of our Universe. Remember the Big Bang Theory arose from methods that also led to airplanes, computers, medicine, skyscrapers and more. That method is the scientific method.
In contrast, Creationism (disguised as Intelligent Design) arose from the same reasoning that led to the Inquisition, the Crusades, the belief that the Earth is the center of our solar systems, the belief that the Earth is flat, the belief every ten years in imminent Armageddon and the idiots Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson blaming 9/11 and the Asian Tsunami on non-Christians.
Which is more based on reality: Airplanes or Armageddon?
Furthermore, no matter how much one wishes there to be a magical supernatural god being in the sky actively involved in our lives, such wishful thinking doesn't make the proposition one iota more likely to be true. No matter how much I wish Mermaids to be real and no matter how many people believe Mermaids to exist, the fact that Mermaids do not exist remains undiminished. (Mermaids were a figment of past sailors' imaginations.)
Plus, one has only to remember the 25,000 or more children dying of starvation EVERY DAY to realize that if a magical powerful supernatural God Being truly existed, it would be a most evil, immoral, uncaring, unworthy God Being to allow those children to suffer so horribly and die so alone!
There's no mystery to the deaths of those children. With food and medicine all of them would live. All. To think a God supposedly has the power to answer the individual's prayer for healing through a miracle but that that God would not intervene in the suffering and painful slow deaths of those innocent children?!? That's insane, immoral and irresponsible.
Faith is a poor excuse for overlooking such real horrors happening this very day in other parts of the world. We humans are in fact all there is and it is up to us and our will to make things better.
God is imaginary. Faith is non-thinking. Prayer is superstition. it is up to the believers in such supernatural magical things to prove otherwise.
Think back before you were born. You have no memory of that time. You, the individual, did not exist. That is what the time after you die will be like. You also will not exist then. Just as there was no beforelife, there is no afterlife. Logical. No matter how much we wish to live forever, it just aint gonna happen. Sorry.
Finally, the Universe likely arose from something larger: the Multiverse. But the Multiverse likely always existed. It is something which was never created. It is all there is fundamentally. It only transforms. Because we individuals began at birth and end at death, we naturally apply that to the Multiverse as a whole. We ask, when did it begin? But perhaps the Multiverse truly has no beginning but is in fact the fundamental ground of all being.
Good luck!
2006-09-03 16:08:20 · answer #2 · answered by Patrick St. Bernard 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as a christian, i believe that the universe originated as a Godly creation. however, i do believe that evolution is real and continues to happen.
i know there is some scientific proof to support the big bang theory. but i like knowing that we were purposefully created by God and not the result of some random, scientific blip.
2006-09-03 16:00:16 · answer #3 · answered by irish_3078 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Neither, both are just theories. If you examin the big bang, and look at modern research into astrophysics, there are several discrepencieswhich have yet to be explained
2006-09-03 15:58:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
How about before the big bang there was a god that made it so...because before the universe, there was nothing...you can't have nothing, there's gotta be something!!!
2006-09-03 15:56:49 · answer #5 · answered by paddy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On this side, ladies and gentlemen...
- evidence
- experience
- facts
- proof
- science
And on this side...
- myth
- legend
- stories from a holy book
- faith
Further, the holy book was written before humankind had the technology to research events that happened millions of years ago.
So...which side are you on?
2006-09-03 16:00:34 · answer #6 · answered by keepsondancing 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
big bang, more facts that the creation theroy
2006-09-03 15:54:38 · answer #7 · answered by akuma_sayian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one knows and unless they invent a time machine, no one will ever know for sure
2006-09-03 16:00:10 · answer #8 · answered by Stephanie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God made the bang.
2006-09-03 15:59:26 · answer #9 · answered by sixpakforsure 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋