The Big Bang or God?

Question

Whenever I start thinking about things like this I end up getting confused and annoyed with my brain.
Which do you have more faith in and why?

Answer 1

Big Bang....giggity giggity gooo.....

Answer 2

if we consider thew big bang theory we should understand that it is 'THEORY' which means unproven, it is just another belief system, someones idea of how it all began. However there are serious flaws with this belief. They do not explain where the materials for the 'big bang' came from or how there was even space for this. So they do not present a complete picture at all. We can say there are big questions about the big bang or is that the big blag?
On the other hand the idea that God created everything is a much more complete concept. Apart from biblical view there are other scriptures that give a very scientific and complete explanation of creation, The Srimad Bhagavatam of India give a very complete scenario of creation. One of the ideas presented is that everything is generated from sound and actually this is confirmed by modern science that on an atomic level everything does vibrate on a sound frequency. Also in the Bible it says 'in the beginning was the word and the word was God'. Personally I find that the scientific presentation is deeply flawed whereas the spiritual concept is more complete. Science says that life comes from matter and our understanding is that matter comes from life and is easily demonstrated. E.G. if we take a lemon tree we can see that whilst it is alive it will produce tons of citric acid in the form of lemons. So we can see that life produces matter not the other way round that the scientists would have us believe. We are safer in the hands of God than in the grip of the scientists who are only men.

Answer 3

I also believe in the possibility of a higher power, something that is beyond our perception but to say that God killed his only son to save our sins by letting him die on a crucifix is just a little like saying that every Christmas a fat man in a red coat flies around the world on his sleigh that is pulled by a team of twelve magical reindeer, delivering presents to all the children that have been good that year. I'm not a fan of religeon.

The Big Bang sounds more plausible in one sense - there is a wealth of evidence to support it. But the point of singularity when the mathematical reasoning which underpins the big bang starts to break down is still elluding our brightest and most educated minds.

However I'm not a scientist with an IQ of 240 so wondering about the secrets of the universe is far beyond my limited capabilities and knowledge.

Answer 4

A couple of your answerers claim that the Big bang Theory has been proven , this is not the case..hence the word "Theory". You are right to be confused in a world which is not demanding as much faith in scientific ifs and maybes as it once did in religious dogma.
The really important question to ask yourself is " does it matter?"; big bang or not, there are still twelve in a dozen, and religion or not,you do your best to be a decent human being..at least most of us like to think that we do....faith is, however,a comforting thing to have hold of.

Answer 5

I don't have faith in either gods or the Big Bang. None is needed for science, because they use evidence.

The Big Bang is supported by levels of background radiation. Also note that the distance between galaxies is increasing -- if you rewind their movement backwards in time, you reach a single point.

This isn't a matter of faith --- it's just a matter of thinking.

P.S. For those people asking, the "Big Bang" was coined by one of the theory's detractors. It's funny how the critics tend to name things. They gave American painter George Bellows and others the term "Ashcan" painters because their colors were so muddy, and "Fauvism" to Matisse and others because their colors were bright. The Big Bang is named by people who thought it was ludicrous.

Answer 6

The Big Bang.

Keep in mind that the creationist claim is that man was made in God's image...out of mud.

By the way, faith isn't involved in believing in the results of science. There's evidence, so no faith is needed. And your first respondent's claim that there's lots of proof for creationism is simply false, as he perfectly well knows.

Answer 7

Think of it this way, the evidence for the big bang is pretty overwhelming, but consider,
Where did the physical laws of our universe come from? and,
What fired off the big bang?

Answer 8

If I were to choose, I would choose God, but he could have produced a surge of energy ( he is decribed in the Bible as being full of dynamic energy, Isaiah 40:26) and the Big Bang could have resulted from that, so it's entirely possible to believe in both.

http://www.watchtower.org

Answer 9

God.

The Big Bang theory just doesn't add up.

Belief in God is based in faith where as the believers of the Big Bang theory reject faith. So that means the Big Bang theory must "prove" itself. But it doesn't....far from it. So belief in either requires a great deal of faith.

Since faith is part of my belief in God, it is accepted. Faith in the Big Bang theory is an oxymoron.

Answer 10

Big Bang is an effect so it requires a cause. God is a cause, thus God is before Mr. Big bang

Answer 11

The Big Bang theory is actually very supportive of the Genesis proclamation that there was a beginning.

When the theory first appeared, a number of scientists such as Einstein, ridiculed it and hoped it was not true because it does sound so much like "in the beginning God created...". Einstein even fudged his equations to try and invent a "steady state universe", i.e. one that had always been. In fact, the phrase "Big Bang" was intended as ridicule.

I think Einstein hated Quantum Theory for the same reason, i.e. that there are inherent unknowns in causality and those unknowns might be God acting in every instant of time.