If God snapped his fingers and the universe sprang into being,then the big bang didn't happen. However, mathematics predicts that if there were a big bang, there should be microwave/long ir radiation that can be received from all directions and orieintations-it predicts the fabric of the universe to be saturated with this radiation. Curiously, this radiation was discovered about 20 years ago, just as mathematics predict. Further, light would have occurred before planetary formation--light would have occurred some 380,000 years after the big bang, planetary formation took biillions of more years. How does one reconcile this with biblical account of genesis?
2007-12-17 04:50:45 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
There are a lot of "easy" answers to this question, depending on your beliefs. Please understand that you don't have to agree with these to understand they are logical and self-consistent, given the context:
1. God created everything in the universe to have a seeming "age," and even made it seem like the big bang, etc. happened. He can do whatever He wants, after all. In this particular case, while the science is correct, the scientific conclusions are not correct (due to extraordinary circumstances - which any good scientist will tell you is POSSIBLE, but clearly unlikely).
2. The "Days" referred to in the Genesis account are not the same as what we call "Days" today. This is supported by the original meaning of the word in Hebrew, not to mention the fact that time had no meaning in the beginning, until God gave it meaning. Therefore, both Genesis AND our scientific understanding of the history of the universe is correct.
There are more, but I believe those are the top two.
2007-12-17 05:01:53 · answer #1 · answered by javelinco 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God created darkness before light. Genesis ch 1.
But your misinterpreting what the big bang timeline says. The light from the big bang would have been produced instantly, however, due to the high density of the dust created from the event, one looking back through a telescope (and thus through time) would only be able to detect the first light after about 380,000 years, when the density of the shockwave dissapated enough to see through it.
2007-12-17 13:06:11 · answer #2 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Bible does not say whether there was a snap or a bang. No doubt there was some sound. We were not there to hear it.
Neither does it say how long a period of time lasted BETWEEN the Creative Days. It is entirely reasonable for the Greatest Craftsman to not count time needed for things to cool or dry as part of His day. As with human craftsmen, there are other projects to be done while cooling and drying time goes on.
Remember that to a creature with a lifespan so long that has no beginning or end, what is a few thousand years?
2007-12-17 13:06:00 · answer #3 · answered by grnlow 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe it can't be reconciled but that proves nothing.
You do know that there is growing discontent in mainstream scientific circles with Big Bang. -- Which reminds me of that great saying : He who marries the spirit of the age is soon a widow !
What you take issue with has been raised in much more simple places, like the wine at the wedding of Cana. It was created anew but must have had fake aging to really be wine . Once you admit God there is no problem, and if you don't there is every problem. Same old story.
2007-12-17 13:01:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Stretched out like a curtain and that means it can come back in very fast. How about the blink of an eye?
As soon as you guys catch up with God, you may know something. God says ask and He will make things known to you. Have you ever tried praying for your answers?
God says without Him we are nothing, so I don't sweat the small stuff like you believing in millions and billions of years.
About your light, God said "let there be light and there was light." Have you very educated people ever thought that God could say "don't let there be light and there was no light." What happened to your billions of light years???
Believe my friend. You are dealing with Almighty God and you can't come close to His knowledge. I suggest you get on your knees and ask God for the answers to your questions. He may just have mercy on you and answer them. Other scientists have done it and look what the world has invented.
2007-12-17 13:08:14 · answer #5 · answered by Jeancommunicates 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is so much built in speculation in your assumption of big bang, light, radiation, and suppositional predictions, that you can't possibly attach a fact to any of your variables.
Then you expect someone else to reconcile it with Genesis.
To put that into plain English. You don't even know what you believe, how do you expect us to?
2007-12-17 12:59:49 · answer #6 · answered by Poor Richard 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't have a problem with it. The bible says, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." So God decided to create a universe. He caused a ball of matter to come into being and then exploded it.
Where do you think that singular ball of matter came from?
2007-12-17 13:06:53 · answer #7 · answered by wilds_of_virginia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What is a day to God. If our day is one rotation of the earth. Who is to say that to God one day is one revolution of our solar system or one rotation of the entire universe. A day is just a mark of time from God's perspective that could be anything.
2007-12-17 12:56:04 · answer #8 · answered by KaYbE follows ΙΗΣΟΥΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Just because one prediction that makes sense based on your model comes to pass, that doesn't prove the model. read Robert Gentry.
2007-12-17 12:55:29 · answer #9 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm not going to argue that the universe isn't old. But I will argue about the age of LIFE on earth.
2007-12-17 12:55:39 · answer #10 · answered by The GMC 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋