Could God have caused the Big Bang?

Question

The Bible is not very discriptive about how the world came to. So is it possible that God put in motion the events that ended in the Big bang?

Answer 1

Sure, as long as you don't read in some sort of literal time frame into the Bible. If you believe the Genesis is saying day 1 make x, day 2 make y, etc., then it the Bible and the Big Bang theory are not consistent. But if you believe, as I and many Christians do, that the "days" mentioned in Genesis don't literally equal current, "human" days, then the two narratives can be consistent.

Answer 2

Yes, it is possible. It's also possible, as some have suggested, that God created the universe only five minutes ago, and gave us artificial memories and set up stars and nebulae so that it *appeared* the universe was far older than five minutes. This is a relatively common Creationist explanation for why there are stars that are apparently 13 billion light-years away that we can see the light from - it couldn't have been traveling for 13 billion years if the universe is only 6000 years old, after all, so God clearly created the universe with that light only 6000 light-years from Earth, making it SEEM as if it had traveled all that distance.

This is POSSIBLE, of course, if we allow God omnipotence. But, like most suppositions about God, there is no way at all for us to prove or disprove this sort of hypothesis. Therefore, it cannot be called a "scientific hypothesis" in any way. That doesn't mean it's not true, of course, just that there's no way for us to test it. You cannot prove it, you can ONLY take it on faith.

Answer 3

God became continually there, and continually would be this is in simple terms it. The God discern in faith is eternal. And for the sake of pastime no longer an excellent type of scientists have self belief interior the super bang concept anymore, it became a word easily coined via a professor in England interior the 70's who needed to ridicule the belief. yet decrease back to the subject count, undergo in techniques what we hear of religions right now have been instructed, altered,and adorned over the final couple of thousand years so of direction all pick their God to be the ultimate and what could be extra advantageous than eternal existence, from a human attitude besides.

Answer 4

Ben, it would have been easier to say, yes. Genesis was written by mere mortals who could not understand how rain was made so they had to devise a way to separate the water on the earth from some reservoir above their heads. The spirit of God moved over the waters. Where did the waters come from? "Let there be light," This was before the creation of the sun, the poor fellows could not figure out where the light on an overcast day came from, the sun was not visible at those times so there had to another source of light. They got it all wrong, Ben, and so did you.

Answer 5

Surely. Somehow He'll will need some kinda event that will shape the world, and the Big Bang is the best option.

Answer 6

This is an idea held by many religious people who are somewhat comfortable with science, and don't want to throw it away just because of some "literal" interpretation. The Bible does not say how, and science does not say why.

But you have to watch out a little bit - M-theorists think they are now answering the why. But who knows....

Ron.

Answer 7

I think the Bible is pretty descriptive in how the world was organized. It happened over a period of time, as explained in "days", therefore I don't think the big bang occurred. If so, then everything would have probably happened at once.

Answer 8

the bible is just a book, i dont believe in god, but i believe in life after death, if you read the bible and study it, you will notice that god is also the devil, which doesnt make sense, and not only that but the bible also says that women are dumb and should be slaves to men, so the bible isnt that accurate, i believe the big bang was just the world comin to an end.

Answer 9

Truths need not be believable, they merely self-consistently exist. Lies must be believable. Consequently, lies are usually much more believable than the truth. Hindus have 30 crores of gods - 300 million deities. Go down the list and pick some likely candidates, then get back to us.

(physical reality) - (empirical reality) = faith

Faith is destroyed if it works. If you have faith you can only be denied. Test of faith! What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Answer 10

Many astronomeers believe exactly that...they think they are figuring out how He did it.

Big Bang.
Let there be light.

I certainly don't think the similarity is a coincidence. Nor do I think either of them bears any resemblence to reality. To think that we are capable of understanding the nature of the universe, either through religion or science, is the epitomy of human vanity.