-I believe in creation by God, that's why I'm curious as to what others think.
-If you say the "Big Bang" I ask, where did the materials for the explosion come from, if there was nothing in existance yet?
-if you think it was just always there, floating around in space, explain on that a little please, because I just don't get that theory.
2007-09-09 05:45:08 · 38 answers · asked by Starr 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
if you think the sky faerie was just always there, floating around in space, explain on that a little please, because I just don't get that theory.
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"they tried an experiment at Harvard took all the "big bang" elements and stuck them with lightening and other elements to recreate a minior big bang and got nothing. "
You might want to research that statement a bit more. It is incorrect in many ways and does not reflect well on CSUF's teaching programs.
2007-09-09 05:50:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
Hi...good question...The 'Big Bang' was the theory of a lot of scientists and philosophers and scholars that one big explosion from an unknown source created the earth and the universe. The theory was if I'm not mistaken that these individuals believed that the universe was great in size in the beginning of the creation but new evidence has come forth that actually the universe was smaller in the beginning and is now actually expanding. It took one priest and his knowledge to help discover the universe size. Now these individuals believe in their research that a huge explosion created the universe I believed they called it a Evil Seed of an unknown source...lol..Why they called it that I'll never know. Now I believe that God might have been this huge explosion that these scholars believe. Now God is known to us Christians as a powerful Entity or Spirit. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last. He is all Eternal. Space has always been there but the Universe was created by God. He created the heavens and the solar system and the other planets in our own Milky Way. And our own Mother Earth. Lets suppose that there was only 'space' nothing was in this space but blackness and cold, no stars no planets no nothing just a big black ball of nothingness. Then this great force punched a hole right through this ball of blackness and created such a force of magnitude that the universe was formed. This force had a magnitude of different gases and ingredients that formed various stars and planets to form our galaxy. Who's to say that this wasn't God? God could have been this great force of magnitude that created the earth and the heavens and the other solar systems. Now when it comes to evolution and the creation of man and all living things as it was written in the Book of Genesis, I believe due to my faith that God created all things, however, I do have an open mind on some issues that I also believe that evolution had a part in the creation also. God may have started the beginning of the creation but I feel that evolution finished where God left off. This is my opinion. Have a blessed day!
2007-09-09 06:13:18 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The scientific theory of the origin of the Earth is that when the gases that make up our solar system began to coalesce some 5 or 6 billion years ago, it did not all go into the sun. About two percent of it cooled at varying distances to form the planets. This occurrence is about 6 or 7 billion years after the big bang so they are not simultaneous events. If you go back to the big bang, the idea is that all the matter that makes up our physical universe now was compressed into an almost impossibly small space. The explosive pressure at some point exceeded the gravity and boom, creation.
2007-09-09 05:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by James H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The theory is the same one Christians employ to explain where god came from...god has always existed and always will.
The material you speak of can be explained in the same way...it always existed and always will.
What you should probably try to understand is that the Big Bang and evolution are not trying to say there is no god. For all we know, god place the material in one central place and caused it to explode outward.
The main problem religious people have with evolution is that it makes the old stories in the bible false....which today is no big surprise. Even if god told our ancestors these stories, they didn't have the knowledge to understand what they were hearing. In human history many things we know today like the earth orbits the sun and the moon orbits us was not known to ancient people. So when they told a story it was from their experience and understanding of the world at that time.
2007-09-09 05:57:18 · answer #4 · answered by suigeneris-impetus 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It seems odd to me that you "don't get" a theory that Earth "was just always there" (it wasn't), yet that's exactly what you must believe about God.
The earth, like other rocky planets, formed as large chunks of debris gravitated towards each other. As the mass of debris gets bigger and bigger, its gravitational pull gets stronger, and more debris is collected. Scientists are still learning about planet formation (just recently, I read an article on how scientists think early planets, while forming, keep from spiraling into the parent star). Do a few internet searches and visit some science news sites and you'll find plenty of things to study.
The Big Bang is the leading scientific theory on how the universe came about. Yes, it's difficult to understand exactly how something could come from nothing, but any argument, religious or scientific, is going to eventually fall back on getting something from nothing, or having something that always existed.
2007-09-09 05:56:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The big bang theory and theism are not exclusive. The big bang merely states that there was an ifinitley dense peice of matter that expanded into the universe today.The big bang theory does not state where the matter came from, just that it expanded rapidly, either from the hand of god or something else. Some atheists beleive that it was just there, but I beleive differently, without having to refer to a sky-daddy. All that the big bang states is that it was infinitley small then immesuably big. No contradictions, except within the Bible which is just a worn out bunch of papers.
2007-09-09 05:55:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
By the 1950s, scientists were in hot pursuit of the origin of life. Around the world, the scientific community was examining what kind of environment would be needed to allow life to begin. In 1953, Stanley L. Miller and Harold C. Urey, working at the University of Chicago, conducted an experiment which would change the approach of scientific investigation into the origin of life.
Miller took molecules which were believed to represent the major components of the early Earth's atmosphere and put them into a closed system
The gases they used were methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), hydrogen (H2), and water (H2O). Using an electric shock similiar to lightning the result was a black sludge which contained proteinsm, the building blocks for life. All these gasses are readily available in other planets in our solar system which gives the possibility that we are not the only planet with life in the universe
2007-09-09 05:56:53 · answer #7 · answered by Follow The 9 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Earth was born when the debris from the KABLOOEYof a second generation star started to hang out in conjunction with itself and with other debris and eventually they amalgamated and POOF! Earth. Then along came Thea and slammed into earth and POOF! today's Earth began. Also the moon (what's left of Thea that didn't get mooshed into earth).
Nowhere does science say that God did not start this stuff through making the Laws of Physics. Nor does Scripture state scientifically exactly HOW God did His creativity schtick.
I don't expect illiterate, itinerant goatherds to be conversant with astrophysics and I don't understand those twits who do! I rather doubt God expected it of them either, or He wouldn't have let them stick in their feeble explanation of creation.
But, the scientific explanation IS there nonetheless. Just read the progression of creation in Genesis 1. First light (Big Bang), then matter (water and dry land), then life. And repeat the sequence for emphasis. First light (via stellar objects), then matter (sun, moon and stars), then life. It's a good mnemonic for a people whose history and culture was verbal rather than written for centuries.
2007-09-09 06:02:17 · answer #8 · answered by Granny Annie 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There were several threads of possibility. When these threads met they became God. He created the universe through the Big bang. A explosion so huge it would drive a man insane if he could comprehend it. Releasing all the matter and subatomic particles into the universe while creating it. Over 18 or more billion years our galaxy finally formed. Then our solar system. Then our planet.
Just because God did it in six days doesn't mean you have to take it as a literal six days. Doesn't say somewhere that a moment to him is as millennium to us ( or something like that).
2007-09-09 05:59:08 · answer #9 · answered by RedBirdofChaos 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The earth accreted from a dust cloud surrounding the sun.
The dust came from previous supernovae.
The early stars came from hydrogen formed after the big bang cooled enough to allow matter to form.
The big bang was an expansion, not an explosion, and we don't know what caused it. Possibly the collision of several branes in multi-dimensional space.
2007-09-09 05:49:36 · answer #10 · answered by sfbcaptain 3 · 7⤊ 0⤋