Are the scientists who created the Big Bang theory athiests?

Question

Why can't it be that God just created the Earth?!?

Wow...reading all these answers makes me feel naiive -.- ...did I use that correctly?

...Ps...Im not christian...so I dont really understand when you guys talk about parts of the Bible...dont hold that against me or anything, please!

Answer 1

God is only an imagination of people. God doesn't exist. Creationism doesn't make any sense. It is impossible for a supernatural power to exist. It is just fiction. Homo Eructus made god. I respect your belief and i just said my opinion.
Big bang theory make sense.

Answer 2

A person does not have to be an atheist to believe in the Big Bang theory. What we call "God" may have created the Universe by using the Big Bang to do it. There are some things which we may never know.
But the whole point in desiring to know things is what it's all about. Science does not by definition have to conflict with religious beliefs. Man has a need to know. A need to discover the world and universe around him.
Learning about what an atom is does not violate the sanctities of faith.
If there is a God, then perhaps that God created Man to be inquisitive enough to question and explore all of creation. The alternative to seeking knowledge does not seem very appealing.
After the Big Bang it took 300,000 years for it to be cool enough for atoms to seperate from radiation. So what? Does that statement deny the existance of God? No.
Man could not exist without the death of previous stars which then formed heavier elements. That does not disprove God either.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for 160 million years before the impact of an asteroid allowed for man to evolve. Even that does not disprove or deny the existance of God.
Who can say what God's overall plan of creation is? Certainly not Man.
Scientists do not create views to conflict with religion. They simply make observations on what already exists in Nature and develop theories based on those observations in an effort to increase knowledge for humankind.
I would propose the question to you as to why the Roman Catholic Church has persecuted people such as Copernicus and Galileo for attempting to teach people that the world was round or that the Sun did not revolve around Earth. This is the true travesty.
How many believers in God are also willing to acknowledge that the world (universe) was not created in seven days? How can one deny the existance of the Paleozoic Age and Mesozoic Age? Acts such as these are truly on the same level as any denial of a God.

Answer 3

First - "Theory" does not mean "unproven". A vast number of predictions of the big bang theory have been observationally proven

Second - Even most theologians do not buy the literal story of Genesis.

In my mind, as we develop a more complete understanding of the physical world around us, and the very fact that we can develop models (theories) that have tremendous predictive power, implies some relation to an underlying reality. This only amplifies the notion that the underlying order of the universe is phenomenally complex and probably beyond our understanding. That is, physics becomes philosophy. So there is a lot of room for faith in science. It's just that the underlying force that drives the universe is more complex than the philanthropic God of the worlds' religions.

Answer 4

Yes for the name, no for the theory !!
The Belgian Catholic priest Georges Lemaître was the first astronomer to suggest a theory like the 'big bang' to explain some facts from Einstein's equations. But Einstein refused to accept that theory.
Two years after, Hubble found the evidence in the reddish light of the farther galaxies and Einstein accepted the Lemaître's theory with the Hubble's facts... I don't know if God created all, but I believed that the creation happened some thousand millions years ago, and human kind evolves from apes some millions years ago..
The name 'Big Bang' comes from Fred Hoyle, an atheist that refused to accept for many years the Big Bang Theory.

Answer 5

Nobody will hold anything against you for asking a question! Most scientists do not believe there is a god who created the universe. Established religions hold unto power with all the zeal at their disposal and new religions are created in an attempt to share that power and profit from it. Scientology was created on a bet between L. Ron Hubbard and Carl Sagan, Hubbard has accumulated a vast fortune from the gullible people who fell for his crap. The Christian bible is so riddled with contradictions and untruths it is to weep that it's readers don't take the few gems of wisdom that it contains and run with that instead of bowing down to priests swinging smoking lamps and babbling words from a dead language. Wake up and use your intelligence in an intelligent manner.

Answer 6

Would it matter ? There is plenty of evidence to support the "Big Bang" theory . I`m not an athiest , and I believe in God . I believe when He created the universe , including the earth , He did it instantly and spectacularly .

He could quite conceivably have used a "Big Bang" method to do it . He could also have done it many other ways I suppose , but the Big Bang certainly seems plausible .

Answer 7

Yes most believe that God jus created the Earth but the comet that hit the earth was large causing a chemical reactiaon that may hav caused us . They (the scientist) also say the Earth has been here forever but as humans we think that is impossible because everything in our society has a begining and end except for the earth. But the chances of all the scietist not believing in God is doubtful.

Answer 8

The Big Bang is a hypothesis, not a theory. If it ever becomes a proven fact, then there will be theories as to how it happened, in the same way that theories of evolution explain the fact of evolution.

And most - around 90% - of scientists are atheists, which simply means "non-theist" and not "anti-god" as I'm sure your preacher's been telling you.

The reason is that religious belief is irrational and unnecessary for figuring out how nature works; everything science has discovered about the world so far is that it behaves just as if there were no super-being in charge, so most scientists only think about religion when one of its attack dogs tries to discredit science and move society backwards into another dark age.

Keep your religion, but keep it to yourself. You have the right to remain stuck in the past and miss the bus to the future if you wish, but you don't have the right to drag the rest of us back there with you.

Answer 9

Not necessarily. The people who wrote the bible didn't know about the "Big Bang" at the time, so they couldn't explain that God created "the earth and all that in them is", and used a big bang to do it. It is not true that seeking precise and detailed understanding of the physical aspects of life necessarily rejects faith in God. The more we know about the mechanics of our universe, the clearer we can understand the unification of all spheres of life, including ethics and justice. Hope this clears up a few misconceptions.

Answer 10

Not necessarily. Just because there is no higher being in the equation, does not mean that all scientists that try to prove the Big Bang are atheists. Man has an inert nature to try to explain and prove things, which is why the sciences were created. And it also keeps them busy. God seems to play the role of "innocent until proven guilty." If science eventually fails to prove this, then the answer must include the presence of a higher being.

Answer 11

Oddly, Wikipedia says that the Big Bang theory originated with a Catholic priest!!

Here's the quote:
In 1927 , the Belgian Catholic priest Georges Lemaître made one of the first modern proposition of the occurrence the Big Bang theory for the origin of the universe, although he called it his "hypothesis of the primeval atom".

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Anyway, the only person who says God (the god of Abraham) created the Earth was Moses. Do you trust Moses? After knowing that he exaggerated the extent of the Great Flood? the Tower of Babel? the age of people prior to the Great Flood?