Big Bang Vs. God

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Introduction

Have you ever wondered how the world came about? Throughout time people have asked the questions: How did our universe begin? How old is our universe? How did matter come to exist? Obviously these are not simple questions and throughout our brief history on this planet much time and effort has been spent looking for some clue. Yet, after all this energy has been expanded, much of what we know is still only speculation. An individual personal facts are lead by personal beliefs. Which brings us to the question: What do you believe? Did the world come about as a result of the Big Bang Theory or did a higher power (God) create the world?

In Science the Big Bang Theory is seen as the most possible explanation to the creation of the Universe, and in Christian religion and in most others the dawn of creation was started by a supreme being, which we have called God without a better word to describe this Supreme Being.

What is the Big Bang Theory?

Big bang cosmology is an explosive topic. Heated reactions nd bitter resistance ave arisen from opposite directions in the last century but, ironically, for the same type of reasons: religious reasons. One group of big bang opponents includes those who understand the theory implications, and the other, those who misunderstand them.

People in the first group understand that the big bang denies the notion of an uncreated or self-existent universe. The big bang theory, based on the accumulated data of centuries, points to a supernatural beginning and a purposeful (hence personal), transcendent (beyond the boundaries of space, time, matter, and energy) Beginner. Those who reject the reality of God or the know ability of God would, of course, find such an idea repugnant, an affront to their philosophical worldview. Similarly, it would offend those who want to spell universe with a capital U, who have been trained to view the universe itself as ultimate reality and as the totality of all that is real. Again, their response is religious.

People in the second group hate the big bang because they mistakenly think it argues for rather than against a godless theory of origins. They associate ig bang with blind chance. They see it as a random, chaotic, uncaused explosion when it actually represents exactly the opposite. They reject the date it gives for the beginning of the universe, thinking that to acknowledge a few billion years is to discredit the authority of their holy books, whether the Koran, the book of Mormon, or the Bible. Understandably, these people either predict the theory ultimate overthrow or