Can the Big Bang theory be able to work with Christianity as well?

Question

When I became a Christian some one told me God could have used the Big Bang to create the Earth. I think it makes sense. God could have used the Big Bang as a way to make the Earth and the other planets and galaxies. It's possible, right?

Answer 1

I personally believe in the Big Bang along with God. Mainly because who is to say that one of God's days are on a 24 hour clock? What is stoppin them from being hundreds of millions or even billions of years? God then picked Earth as the most suitable place for life, made it habitable and slowly shaped man into his image through the process of evolution. That is my personal belief and I am quite sure of it and some of my atheist friends view that as a reasonable claim.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

This might help:

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...For Christians, the heart of the issue really comes down to the question "Does the concept of a Big Bang type creation event undermine Scripture?" I could argue that the broad concept in fact does the opposite. The Big Bang theory validates the Christian concepts of a finite universe, an initial beginning and a creation of time and space. Today, we see apologists arguing for the existence of God using the Kalam argument. The Kalam states everything that has a beginning must have a cause. The universe has a beginning. Therefore, the universe must have a cause. Further, that cause must have exerted intelligence to desire change and a will to make the change happen.

Astronomer Hugh Ross goes even farther, though. He states that although there are many competing models and theories on the Big Bang event, each with its own details, all agree on two basic premises: At some certain point in the past the universe began to exist and it has been expanding ever since. Ross argues that both these premises are clearly taught in Scripture. He writes, "The Bible's prophets and apostles stated explicitly and repeatedly the two most fundamental properties of the big bang, a transcendent cosmic beginning a finite time period ago and a universe undergoing a general, continual expansion. In Isaiah 42:5 both properties were declared, 'This is what the Lord says-He who created the heavens and stretched them out.'" Ross notes also that there are at least eleven Bible verses that talk about God's "stretching out" the universe.

All in all, the concept of a big bang type creation event shouldn't trouble Christians too much. While specifics such as the nature of the creation, if it was guided intelligently, and other points should be discussed vigorously and the Christian position defended, the main idea of the universe coming into existence a finite time ago is actually a huge concession on the part of modern science - ground that the scientists for a long time did not want to give up. This is why Dr. Robert Jastrow, Director Emeritus of Mount Wilson Observatory and founder of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies had written "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."...

Answer 3

The fact that you have become a Christian is okay. I cannot knock it. However, all attempts to rationalize the Big Bang with Christianities Creation Story are doomed to failure, and should be avoided / forgotten. The time line is all wrong. The massiveness of what happened cannot be glibly explained away as the act of some being. Don't try to do that. Make good use of the fine things your religion will teach you about the way to relate to your fellow man, and others in society and let it go at that. The Christian myths about creation were written long, long ago when man had only a smattering of knowledge about physics, atomic fusion, and certainly none of the advanced optical and radio telescope devices we have today on Earth and in Space to observe the Universe.

You will need to study science as science. As you learn more, you will mature and begin to understand that today you know and can learn more from the various scientific technologies than people could, or did, long, long ago. Some people truly do not want to cope with the vastness of Space, and the wonders of the Universe. They are more than content to look at what is around them and close their minds to other things. This is especially true if they are shy about extended math, conversions of units of measure and weight, atomic physics, etc. Maybe those things don't interest them, and a really simple story is much easier for them to accept.

Now, I don't want to play with your mind, but consider this...
We call Earthlings all of the people who have ever lived on Earth or live there now... Right? And, we call Aliens those creatures of some description who do not, or have not, ever lived on Earth....Right? So, according to the story, God created Earth. And, if he did that, then he didn't live there
originally. He lived somewhere else...Right? So, if one follows the pattern, God was an Alien. Now, where does that get you? In general, nowhere. However, it does put your mind into an interesting position for looking at things a little bit differently. Don't go nuts about it, just think about it some.

The Sun is only one of Billions and Billions of stars in the Universe. It is 864,900 Miles in diameter, and its surface temperature is 9,930 Degrees F. Its core is estimated to be 127 Million Degrees F. Inside the core of the Sun Hydrogen Gas is being converted to Helium through a nuclear fusion process caused by very intense heat and pressure. The gases are so hot that they are molten and even metallic at the center of the core. Now, tell me that somebody created that... I don't think so. But, like I said, make up your own mind in time.

Answer 4

Science examines the universe around us in an attempt to understand how it works and why things are the way they are. To me, if the universe is created, then damned-skippy you can look at it and see how it works.

If I showed you a nice 17th century Swiss pocketwatch that keeps perfect time even until this day, and you took it apart and meticulously examined every gear, sprocket, droplet of oil, and spring, and were able to tell more about it than even the original watchmaker knew.... that doesn't mean there wasn't a watchmaker. Nobody just dropped a bag of gears and stuff on the floor and it magically landed as an assembled watch.

Yet, when we look at the universe to see how IT works, and we figure things out, it doesn't suddenly mean there was no intelligence or design behind it.


CONVERSELY:

Our place in the universe being such a perfect mix of such rare conditions doesn't mean that it WAS created either. The anthropic principle says: we're here because things were set up in a way that sorta lent itself to us being here. If they weren't this way, then either we wouldn't be here to contemplate on the failure of the universe to produce us, or else we'd be so different that Earth would be a hostile, uninhabitable place if we were to visit it.


My point is this: I'm an agnostic, and I can't say there is NO god ant more certainly than I can say that there IS one. I get madder than hell every time I see snobbish science enthusiasts blowing their noses on religion because in their own exhalted estimations, the concept of something beyond human comprehension and experience is simply poppycock. They are, to me, just as bad as the Spanish Inquisitors were centuries ago.

(someone commented that only now has the Bible been used as an infalible source of knowledge that refutes science - this is FAR from true.... just ask Galileo, who was told that the bible said he was wrong and to shut up or get burned at the stake.)

My conclusion:
The Bible doesn't say how many times Moses ate breakfast, so he must have only eaten a few times - whenever it was mentioned, and he obviously never defecated even once - it's not in the bible, yaknow? The bible isn't a technical explanation of how the universe works; it's not the scope, just as how one bakes a cake isn't included in auto repair mags.

If science and religion disagree about a fact, then either one or both of them is wrong. There is only one truth, and its value is not altered by belief or disbelief in it.

Answer 5

The bible was seen as "guidance" and a theological reference book rather than a "technical reference book" for almost two thousand years, until some American Christians invented "fundementalism", or the notion of "scriptural innerrancy" in the late 1800's to protest the teaching of real science in US schools.

To believe that God is smart enough to make a universe in 7 days, but is too dumb to use metaphor, or to use evolution as a mechanism to guide life, is, I think, a pretty dreadful insult to God.

I'm pretty much a "devout agnostic", so I don't know if God is there or not, but I'm a nice guy, and if He IS there, I expect to see Him when I die. I can't imagine too many fundies will be there!

Answer 6

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

sounds like a BIG BANG to me!
heavens-space
earth- well, earth!

Answer 7

Some kind of 'supreme being' must have at least made the Big Bang possible, if not actually caused it to happen. I seriously doubt that this 'supreme being' is anything like Christianity or any other religion describes.

Answer 8

The question you should be asking is: Can Christianity work with the Big Bang?

Answer 9

Absolutely! Future Christians will look back on the idea that you had to believe that Earth is only 6,000 years old in the same way we look back on Galileo getting arrested for saying the Earth went around the Sun.

Answer 10

See if you can find in your Bible where it says God created earth. Easy, right? Now look for the place where it says HOW it was done..........think about it!