Do you think the Big Bang theory goes against the belief in God or religion?

Question

My friend rejects the idea of the Big Bang because he says it goes against the bible but I disagree, the bible says God created everything but it never said how.....it never said it didn't happen with a loud BANG!!!...do you agree or disagree? If you think big bang goes against the bible? How so?

Answer 1

You're right--the Bible only says that He created the universe; it doesn't go into details. So the Big Bang is a possibility. Personally, I have my doubts, but I really can't say why; it's more of a feeling than anything else. But I'm openminded; I'll wait to see what develops in astrophysical theory.

Answer 2

When you look at the latest financial statement from Ford do you see an explaination of how a car engine works, or if it was from Intel would you see an explaination of how a Pentium processor works? No, of course not. The same reasoning applies here.
The Big Bang theory, which is just one theory of many in the history of mankind, is the current flavor because it fits the available data best.
The trouble you and I have is trying to find out exactly why one particular model is favoured over another model. For example, BBT may be favoured because it can easily gobble up millions of years, which at face value goes against the Bible. Believe it or not, there are actually people around who will favour BBT just because of that fact. But BBT is also be favoured because some of the proponents (only some) using it correctly predicted a background radiation of about 2.7 deg kelvin before the radiation was discovered.
The fundamental thing to believe is God did it with the known laws forces of physics.

Answer 3

If the big bang theory is correct, than there are places like other galaxies that could not have existed in this universe before the big bang. These places are 10's of millions of light years from earth. If the speed of light is constant, than these galaxies had to exist for 10's of millions of years before the creation of the universe in order for the light to be visible to those on earth. see the paradox?
If god created everything say 6 or 8 thousand years ago, the light traveling from these other galaxies would not be visible on earth today. Even if the earth was 6 million years old, let alone 6000.

As far as evolution goes. A true Christian cannot believe in evolution. You cannot say that the earth/universe was created 6000 years ago and then say we have evolved over millions of years at the same time. Christians who say they believe in evolution aren't thinking the whole thing through.

here is a funny, but good explination

http://atheistdelusion.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

Answer 4

If you will dump the idea of god being a personal being, it of course make absolute sense. The more science we learn, the less we attribute to a god. The bible is just a book, sweetie, and if you were a bit of an historian, you would see or be able to learn that much of it comes from Egypt, and the Book of the Dead (the title of which is more correctly translated as "the book of going forth by day"..... Just as an example: The 10 commandments come from the list of denials that people in Egypt had to deny as they stood about to be judged, and before they were allowed into the Field of Reeds. (paradise). The story of Moses coming down from the mountain comes 1200 years after the first Book of the Dead was written!!!!! The trinity idea comes from Isis, Osiris and Horus. The beattitudes (" Blessed are they who are..... yadayadayada...." Right out of the Book of the Dead...... the prayer that beings, "Though I walk thru the valley of the shadow of death...." again, right out of the Book of the Dead, So, if you get rid of the idea of a personal supernatural god, yes, of course the Big Bang occurred, and we are not so sure that it has not happened several times of contracting, exploding, expanding, expanding even more, then contracting and exploding again..... If you want to know more, write me

Answer 5

God could have created the big bang. But, if so, it wasn't billions of years ago.
The big bang did not happen, at least the way some scientist think. There is a law that opposes it-which scientifically kills it. Now God can bend the rules of science-so, if there was a big bang-He did it. Otherwise-it never happened.

Answer 6

Personally, I think it goes against all logic, and all science.
If I didn't feel that way, would I try to see how it could go with what the Bible teaches? Possibly, I don't know. Some of it I couldn't accept for theological reasons. But my biggest objection is the logic of the thing. I just don't have enough faith to buy a theory like that one. A big explosion, resulting in more and more order. Then a series of the most amazing coincidences, following the pattern, eventually, of "the survival of the fittest". It's just too much for me. Sorry.

Answer 7

Well it doesn't exclude the possibility of a god, but it is a whole lot different than the Bible. The time is WAY off. The order is WAY off. Genesis sounds nothing like it.

I personally don't care what you believe, but if you think they might be consistent, read Hawkins "The Universe in a Nutshell" and follow it up with Genesis and get back to me.

Answer 8

I think religion should not be believed in the same sense as we believe our sensory perceptions.
The purpose of spirituality is to reach beyond the normal, which includes beliefs and perceptions. I believe most people miss the point of all spiritual practices. Which is to use metaphors from our collective unconscious in order to enlighten us.
But to believe in the God of the Bible the same as you do the computer screen before you now is completely missing the point. That God is a metaphor for our higher collective consciousness; the very fabric of the universe of which everything is composed.

Answer 9

Big Bang is in The Quran and Bible and probably other texts.


21:30] Do the unbelievers not realize that the heaven and the earth used to be one solid mass that we exploded into existence? And from water we made all living things. Would they believe?

Answer 10

faith is referred to in public college. The classes based round international cultures and we realized about what religions that they had. "How come evolution and the large bang concept isn't banned?" because this is technological know-how sponsored up by using 1000's of peer-reviewed literature and purpose information. "It is going adverse to those who have self belief in God.this is really announcing what your faith says is pretend.this is a few thing this is mandatory study.they are corrupting the innovations of children who've a faith.this is not any longer honest.i imagine it really is going to be banned." And if some instructor says this is Lord Brahma that made the international and the universe, what then? would not they be best ideal, by using your argument, too?