Big Bang Theory vs. Creationism confuses me?

Question

Because Big Bang and Creationism don't really explain the same thing, do they?

My understanding of the Big Bang is that the entire universe came from a very small area of very dense matter which blew up to form the universe that exists now. So it seems to me that Big Bang explains how things became the way they are, but not how something came into being from nothing.

But, I feel like the entire point of Creationism is to explain that there is anything at all here, whether 'anything' is a tiny piece of matter or an entire universe. So they're not really explaining the same thing, are they?

Anyone who supports either side is welcome to respond, I just want other viewpoints about it, because I don't get why these are two sides of the same debate.

I'm not asking for your personal opionions... If I wanted personal opinions, I'd just look up the basic debate.

Answer 1

RIGHT, "Big Bang" is NOT about origin, but DISTRIBUTION.

... "Big Bang" is NOT OPPOSED to the Biblical creation account. It DOES PRESUME that matter existed which unknown processes caused to expand at tremendous speed from a small area. It makes no statement about the ORIGIN of that matter. Many people on BOTH SIDES of the creation debate argue false points about science, astrophysics in particular, the "big bang" theory, AND THE BIBLE...

The scriptures nowhere state that creation took place in 4004 BC. That was the result of humans falsely interpreting the scriptures in an improper manner, effectively taking several dozen passages out of context, shuffling them together like a deck of cards, and selectively dealing them out to serve their desires. This is NOT a valid method of Biblical interpretation.

The "Big Bang" theory is a cosmological model that fits rather well with our observations. It is an "integration" of general relativity into the question of how our universe came to be the way it is.

While it cannot be considered "proven," it does seem more likely than any of the other theories which have been advanced in recent years. It lines up well with the predictions of relativity about the energy and motion necessary to produce the universe as we see it. Together they predicted an "echo" which was not found until many years after the "Big Bang" theory was published.

Answer 2

Big Bang is a theory based on observation of galaxies movement away from "something". The farther you look into space, the farther you look back into time (if a star is 100 light years from us, you are seeing the star the way it looked 100 years ago, not now).

Big Bang is a euphamism for the birth of the universe. Or "how" the universe came to be. It in no way seeks to describe "why" the universe exists.

Creationism (young earth etc) attempts to describe both "how" the universe came to be and "why". Creationism however does not mesh with what can be seen and understood in the world around us (especially young earth creationism). The fossil record, the universal genome, and astronomy.

Hope this helps some

Answer 3

The Big Bang Theory is just that - a theory. If there was actually evidence to prove it, then it would no longer be a theory. This theory cannot and never will be able to explain the origin of anything, such as where this so-called dense matter came from in the first place. Creationism offers an explanation for all of this.

Answer 4

Actually, the Big Bang theory does in fact suggest that everything essentially came from nothing, not that there was a tiny object full of stuff. The mechanism for this was the equal and opposite creation of vast amounts of matter and antimatter. However, the antimatter decayed at a different rate, allowing baryonic matter to come to dominate the visible universe (although more exotic and invisible forms actually dominate.)

But I get the gist of your point. The Big Bang theory answers the question "how." It does not address the question "why?"

Answer 5

Yes they are both explaining the same thing. The big bang has matter and energy cycling from a singularity to an expanded universe and back again. Creation has the world as a blob with light and darkness, then a form and then the sun, moon, and stars...

In one case we have evidence, facts, and observations not to mention mathematical verification and models. In the other we have assertions and faith.

Answer 6

Most Christians do not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.

One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good.

Catholics can believe in the theories of the big bang and/or evolution. Or not.

On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis:

The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.

Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html

The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theories of the big bang and evolution are the most logical scientific explanations. However tomorrow someone may come up with better ideas.

As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.

With love in Christ.

Answer 7

Suppose you were walking through the forest and you come upon a cabin house. It appears to be deserted but when you get closer you noticed that inside the refrigerator there is food. You noticed that the bathroom are designed for man and woman perfectly decorated for each person. You would probably conclude that a couple lives here. Suppose you go in another room and see a room with twin beds with beautiful playful colors, you would probably think they must have kids.

You notice that there is running water, electricity is still on. You would now conclude that someone is occupying the house at this time.

Suppose someone tell you that no one lives there, in fact the house just appear out of no where, WOOF! everything needed to live in a house just appeared?

WOULD YOU BELIEVE THEM?

Same is true of our earth. It is designed with everything we need to live and survive. Humans can't live in water and fish can't live on land. Someone created it that way. Our trees provide fruit and vegetables. Plants provide beauty. Clearly someone designed the earth for us to enjoy. Oh...and the beautiful colors. Green, blue, yellow, orange...nothing is boring. The different foods, fish, veggies fruit. Which means not only did someone create the earth for humans to live on but had a goal that they be truly happy and enjoy life.

What about the man and woman, just the intricate way children are born and the perfect bond on intimacy shows that not only was having children a privelege but it was made to be enjoyable. Someone created the human body to expand its stomach to carry a baby weighing up to 10lbs or more. Also, everything inside the woman was created to sustain that baby for up to 9months. Wow!

Oh...and do we have water and electricity? We sure do. The powerful beautiful ocean that is push back and held back by grains of sand. Who can create with all that wisdom? Oh..and our electrical system shows the wisdom of a perfect Creator. Just research the moon, the stars, the galazy. Wow! You would be in awe with such an awesome creator.

That is just a few examples. Now suppose someone told you that the earth just appear from a Big Bang, it just happen and WAAALAH! We're here. Would you believe it?

I'll let you figure it out.

Read Isaiah 45:18 "For this is what God has said, the Creator of the heavens, He the true God, the Former of the earth and the Maker of it, He the One who firmly established it, the One who did not create it simply for nothing, who formed it to be inhabited."

Answer 8

Creationism says that at one point there was nothing and then God said " let there be light "and with a big flash the universe was created" Big bang theory says the same thing except that it doens't mention God speaking the Universe into creation. Same thing, different words.I tend to believe the bible because it gives an account of what happened and why. The bible provides an eyewitness account for the big bang, by the only eyewitness who was there at the time....God.

Answer 9

The Big Bang theory fails unless you can explain where the dense matter came from and what caused the "Big Bang." Could it have been God?

Depending on your point of view, God could have created the world in six days or God could be the source of the matter and the "Big Bang."

Answer 10

It seems that you are not confused at all: you understand perfectly that they are not necessarily mutually exclusive explanations of existence, and they both fail to account for the same things, typically (that being the first cause, what set the Big Bang into motion/ what created God, or allowed him to be). THey could actually be considered supplemental interpretations, if you were so bold and blasphemous to believe in God and the Big Bang (Heaven forbid)