Why don't theists embrace the big bang?

Question

OK, I know I will probably get slammed from all sides on this, but I wonder why theists don't embrace the big bang?

As I understand it (and correct me if I'm wrong), the force of the explosion had a very narrow allowable range in order for a life sustaining universe to be the result. Too much force and everything flies apart and you have no galaxies, no stars, no planets, just a bunch of matter flying off in all directions.Too little force and everything implodes in on itself.

Again, as I understand it, there was a very narrow range for an explosion that led to the universe as we know it.

To me this is not evidence of a creator in the strict sense. But it does allow for the opinion that something guided the first moments of the universe. Yet I see many theists (and specifically Abrahamics) rejecting science in general and the big bang in particular.

Answer 1

I think there are many of us who do.

The details of a the working of teh universe could not have been understood by people that long ago. So a very simplified version was revealed.

It is amazing because the fact that there was a beginning, and the order of creation of light and life in the sea and on land then humans is scientifically being proven as correct.

God works through and probally set up the rules for our universe. WOW that is a much bigger concept than was originally revaealed adn a bigger concept of God. God has revealed himself bit by bit through the ages - why cant he allow science to reveal more of himself.

Answer 2

As other people have said, there are theists who believe it. However, if God could create the entire universe from his spoken word, why wait for life to develop and planets to collide. It's a good thing I'm not asking the question or I could get slammed for this, but a respected friend of mine in a theology program brought this thought to me... why couldn't God have created an earth that was old in age, yet new in the number of years... and with that, why not the entire universe?

Now, as to why we reject science... the definition of rejects itself with regard to the Big Bang... science is: systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.

If you can experiment with the Big Bang and call it science based on the second half of the definition of science, then we could call it science, but in fact the big bang is the observation of an effect without ever being there for a cause and experimenting the cause at that. If God wanted to, bang, the universe IS. No 15 billion years... no 6 billion years for the earth to develop life. Sure, if we look at the universe, we can assume that it is 15 billion years old and we can date rocks to billion of years old (at least some people think we can)... why do we assume it's 15 billion years old?

a) we don't believe in a creator
b) we don't think our creator to be big enough to do something like that
c) we think ourselves all knowing because we base our existence on what explanations we can think up

The best part of it all is, this doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Genesis 1 and 2 is indeed important to the Hebrew or Christian, however, John chapter 3 places our salvation in a nutshell. :)

Answer 3

I'm christian, and as far as I'm concerned God was the creator of all and he did it by science, he is the first and ultimate scientist, everyone tries to think of God as the wizard in the mickey mouse cartoon, and for get just how vast this universe is, and couldn't have just happened from nothing....people back when the Bible was written
didn't know how to describe what they saw and the things that happen as we do today...they have found drawing on cave wall of space ships, and men in strange suits....we are so use to living in a fairy tale
world were cartoon character or worshiped like they were human, that people can't think , it's either cartoon like, or some barbaric type of existence...and there's
no middle ground....we and this world and the universe or to well put together(to complicated) for there not to have been some supernatural force behind it..and the big bang could have been the beginning for us but he was involved in all of it....believe it or not

Answer 4

I read a really good article on that same concept once. How theist need to be more accepting of the big bang theory because in essence the big bang theory assumes that there is a beginning.

They dont' readiliy accept it because it is not what is told in Genesis 1 and 2. The problem is Genesis 1 and 2 are not there to tell us HOW the World was created but WHO God is.

Answer 5

I'm an atheist and I don't embrace it. It's a theory that interests me but science has to come up with a theory of quantum gravity before it can even say for certain that the universe had a starting point-until it does I reserve judgement on the big bang.

Answer 6

Many "theists" do accept the Big Bang. There's not much difference between the Big Bang and "Let there be light". I don't know how God created the universe, I just know He did.

Answer 7

I completely agree in that, however the world actually came about, if you believe in God, then you believe God made it happen that way, big bang, matter from nothing, acid trip, whatever. Why don't people think God used the laws of nature? It's not like Genesis goes into great detail on HOW God did it.

Answer 8

I do believe that something like this happened ... although not strictly the big bang theory... but i am open to it
I am quite comfortable with my belief in God as the creator and being able to create in this type of way

Answer 9

You know God says is anything too hard for me? He formed us out of the dust!! Jesus healed the sick and raised the dead. He restored the blind men's sight and unstopped the death ears.
He feed 5,000 and 4,000 on two different occasions with prayer and a few loaves and fishes that were multiplied when He broke them and passed them to the people and they were all feed and then there was more taken up left over than when He started with.

Answer 10

Well there was no life when the big bang happened. It was about a billion years after that life was even sustained