do u believe that the creation could have in fact been what scientists call the big bang?

Question

i saw something like this awhile ago

let there be light" = big bang.

separation of light and dark = formation of stars

Firmament = formation of the planet(s)

Separation of the waters = formation of atmosphere,

"waters under the heavens gathered into one place" to expose dry land. ...

plants, water creatures, land creatures, people, = basic progression of evolution.

doesnt it make sense? what great discoveries open thinking can lead to....

i am a creationist, but this makes a lot of sense despite the fact that it could be wrong.

Think about if this link between science and religion was significantly proved how much more peace there would be.

Happykid, whatever u said, sincerely, makes no sense at all.

Rach i never said it involved any evolution.

Answer 1

yes, science is great, isn't it?

Answer 2

Except that scientists now postulate that there was, in fact, an age before the big bang, and have started developing models as to what the universe looked like before it last went bang.

Now, of course, this is all just hypothesis, but if you feel the need to limit your worldview (and thus the range of possibilities) based upon the ability to reconcile the facts to a set of images emanating out of one particular creation myth, isn't that just going to hold you back?

Doesn't this seem like reaching a bit? Something you might be doing just to feel like it's really okay to believe?

The problem here is if you want to claim that the bible ought to be taken as a book of spiritual allegory - then that's super, but it makes it a manmade book. If you base a religion on participating in the body of tradition that has sprung up around it, that's your decision.

For the rest of us, though, the Bible is only going to be a book with powerful imagery that describes the continuing spiritual experience of a tribe of people and their evolving concept of god. However, a book of imagery and allegory will not be true in an absolute and exclusive sense.

It's not really a great discovery, and is something that you can do with virtually any body of myth.

Hail Satan,

Lazarus

Answer 3

What you are descibing is called "shoehorning". Attempting to read something into your favorite myhtology that isn't there.

You might be dismayed to learn that the Biblical creation myths (there are two different versions) get things painfully out of order (light before there were stars or sun, plants before there was sunlight, etc...). I will also point out that the "firmament" is specifically described as a massive tent of ice and/or water in a dome over the world...a description that says nothing whatsoever about planets.

The closer one comes to looking at your myth, the more and more impossible it becomes. Even metaphorically.

Answer 4

The Big Bang happened billions of years ago. Most Christians believe it started much later. Did God cause the Big Bang? If so, He's really late!

Answer 5

Yes and I can also believe that it was Gods plan to create a big bang and it all came together by his engineering expertise.

Thanks for the question.

Answer 6

That, or people thousands of years ago noticed things around them and made up stories to explain them to the best of their ability.

I'm not trying to attack your beliefs or anything (I only do that to people who are being rude, and really asking for it!). But this falls into a category similar to that of so-called biblical predictions. Connections to known things and events, made after the fact.

Answer 7

ok... so the big bang theory basically says that there was like this tiny molecule or atom or some crap like that (sorry not a science fan) and it blows up and makes life. ok.... so if i go put a huge bomb in the middle of a city and set it off... do you think its gonna create life? its a big bang... no?

Answer 8

let there be light" = big bang.

separation of light and dark = formation of stars


I don't think there would have been light until stars were formed because there wouldn't have existed the proper elements yet.

Answer 9

It takes as great a leap of faith to believe that everything was created out of nothing as it does to believe in an intelligent, unseen creator. No one knows for sure, but I agree with the greatest scientist of them all who said, "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein

Answer 10

Yes, I do. The key element is that it was not an accident, nor a series of billions of accidents causing disorder to become order.

Answer 11

It's great as long as we don't get so rigid that we start lying about the evidence we see in order to make it fit into our formula.