I mean, either way. None of us were there to witness what really happened at the beginning of time.(this is my first question for this section and I'm kind of worried about the responses I'm gonna get. I'm just asking a question, not trying to make a point.Please don't get mad.)
2007-08-06 14:36:59 · 40 answers · asked by LEMON the good life 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am quite certain that when God said, "Let there be light", there was a big bang!
Yes, both require faith!
2007-08-06 14:42:53 · answer #1 · answered by mizmead 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It's possible that God used the "Big Bang" to form the Universe, the real question should be where did the big bang come from and who or what set it off?
What does take a lot of faith is that the big bang happened all by itself and created matter out of nothing.
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that science cannot demonstrate or duplicate in the lab something coming from nothing.
Evolutionists say that given enough time anything is possible, but Zero multiplied by the biggest number you can think of still equals Zero.
Zero multiplied by a trillion billion years is still Zero!
At the moment science only seems good at explaining what happened after the big bang went off, what happened before that they are unable to say let alone prove.
2007-08-06 14:43:38 · answer #2 · answered by jeffd_57 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not. Scientific theories such as the Big Bang are based heavily on evidence, that explain all the facts and withstand time. If a tree has 20 rings we can speculate that it is around 20 years old, but that is not the same thing as having "faith" that it is 20 years old.
Believing in God relies on faith, and nothing else. Now, believing that the universe is expanding due to magical pink bunnies pushing things away from each other takes as much faith as believing in God.
In response to Martin S (below), our environment was not made to suit us, but life has adapted to it. The universe is "orderly", if that's what you would call it, because of chemical and physical properties that naturally bind matter together (and other forces that physicists would be happy to explain).
Questions similar to this are asked often. The simple answer to all of them is that science is not religion, and religion is not science.
2007-08-06 14:46:34 · answer #3 · answered by khard 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope. The Big Bang made several predictions that have proven true. For instance it predicted that there would be a background radiation "echo" of it that was uniform in all directions. It took decades to get equipment sensitive enough to detect it but it was there.
Predictive ability goes a long way to proving a theory. What you have with god is that the Earth was flat, and only a few thousand years old. Neither of those predictions is accurate.
2007-08-06 14:42:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, I think that it take more faith to believe that a violent explosion resulted in an orderly universe and that the earth just happened to be at the exact right distance from the sun with just the right tilt to it's axis with the moon just the right distance away with the chemical composition of the atmosphere and the massive amounts of water present to sustain life on this planet than it does to say "You know what? This couldn't be an accident. There must be some supernatural being responsible for it all."
2007-08-06 15:09:42 · answer #5 · answered by Martin S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There is a fair amount of empirical scientific evidence for the event known as the Big Bang, so it doesn't take faith to believe it, only a willingness to educate ones self.
This holds true for all scientific theories, which makes one wonder why most people will accept without question that a planet (or planetoid) named Pluto exists (since most people have never seen Pluto with their own eyes) but deny other claims astronomers make.
2007-08-06 14:44:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If your saying that the big bang arose from nothing, then it takes more faith to believe in that than it does to believe in God. However, maybe God created all the things neccasary for the big bang to happen.
2007-08-06 14:52:16 · answer #7 · answered by guitarman28716 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no becuase people just believe in those scientific facts about big bang, however, there aren't as many as scientific facts about God then the big bang
people just say "okay, there was a big bang , the end"
but people who believe in God pray and put their faith and trust in him everyday for the rest of their lives
thats the difference
you put work into believing God, and thats a good thing, not a bad thing..
2007-08-06 14:45:42 · answer #8 · answered by facebook rocks ! 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'd ask you this:
How much faith is required to accept all the mainstream scientific principles and descriptions of the natural world, which contain clear, unambigious and compelling evidence, which are verifiable, and which are completely consistant with the "big bang" theory..?
On the other hand, what do you offer as proof of your "particular" god..?
2007-08-06 14:44:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The beauty of it is = the Big Bang Theory is totally consistent with the Genesis account of creation.
Have you ever noticed how every time Science makes a "new" discovery, it totally confirms what we already knew by faith?
Oh, our God is an awesome God!
2007-08-06 14:44:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
to believe in it perhaps takes faith. to examine the evidence and see that the big bang accounts for a good deal of the evidence, and that it does this better than any other scientific theory, doesn't really take faith. just a bit of work.
2007-08-06 14:46:30 · answer #11 · answered by vorenhutz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋