[Jehu]

I would seriously divorce discussion of the Big Bang with a discussion of Evolution. The science behind the Big Bang is very good science. There is no contradiction to the Biblical account that the material universe came into existence in a moment of time, as the Big Bang evidence indicates. Look at Genesis 1:1 It is not hard to see that verse AS the Big Bang event. The Bible then skips 12 billion years of development through physical laws and jumps to the re-population/renewal of the earth. As formless and void (tofu/bofu) in the Hebrew indicates that the earth already existed but under a roiling chaotic condition after some Divine Judgment in a bygone era. The Bible leaves many things out and that is for man and his science to explore. But evolutionary theory is another matter. Probably the weakest scientific theory of all time, yet the most widely hyped and believed. Only because it offers an alternative to believing in God. And cloaks itself as part of the new religion of "science." I mean, who is going to suspect a priest wearing a labcoat? That is why it is so emotionally held and fought for. Yet nobody gets emotional over REAL science, imagine emotional arguments about chemistry, or physics?

[Reuben Hick]

There is no contradiction to the Biblical account that the material universe came into existence in a moment of time, as the Big Bang evidence indicates.

Two Questions:

According to the Scriptures, which came first, Earth or the stars and planets?

According to BBT, which came first the stars and planets or Earth?

[Reuben Hick]

As formless and void (tofu/bofu) in the Hebrew indicates that the earth already existed but under a roiling chaotic condition after some Divine Judgment in a bygone era.

Where do you see "Divine Judgement" and "bygone era" in tofu/bofu? A considerable amount of eisegesis?

Why do you reject the gospel where death came to the Creation via Adam's sin?

The Gap Theory has more and bigger gaps in it than Plain Ol' Atheistic Evolution