Gensis & the big bang, Creation and Time.?

Question

has anyone ever read the book "Genesis & the Big Bang" [by Gerald L. Schroeder]? and give a brief summary what its about?

and a similar book called Creation and Time [by Hugh Ross] if its better/worse/not alike to the book above.

thnx

Answer 1

In "Genesis and the Big Bang", Schroeder attempts to demonstrate that scientific discoveries and theological beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible are - despite common conception - in accord rather than contradictory.

He does this in a variety of ways. To make the billions-year-old scientific universe and the six-day Biblical one jibe, for example, he suggests that the Bible's god is in a different time-frame than the rest of the universe. He also lines up some of the geneologies in the Bible and compares them with human history and suggests that they match up pretty exactly. As for biology, he simply rejects abiotic generation out of hand with a pretty standard statistical argument.

Outside of religious circles, I haven't seen this book get much more than scorn. Schroeder seems to pick and choose both from science and religion so we see only things that favour his hypotheses... I've seen reviewers criticize both his science and his theology as a result. Ouch. And any use of the statistical argument is pretty much based on complete guesses that have to be covered up and made to look authoritative.

I would say the book is a good example of an attempt to reconcile divergent views, but I don't think ANY of it will go far to convince someone who is familiar with the specifics. A lay person, however, might swallow it whole and never notice anything wrong.