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I could not disagree more. "In the beginning God created..." Before the Big Bang theory scientists believed in an eternal universe. Big Bang theory says there was a singular beginning to space and time which is absolutely in line with scripture. Atheists were very much against the theory untill the evidence became overwhelming. [excerpt, bold emphasis mine]

That one point may agree with the bible, but there is more to the Big Bang than that.

If you would like to read about some of the contradictions between the Big Bang and the Bible, here are some links:
The Big Bang: God’s Chosen Method of Creation?
Does the big bang fit with the Bible?
Missing antimatter challenges the 'big bang' theory
“Antimatter and the Big Bang”(An essay on one of the scientific problems with the Big Bang)

I disagree with you about the acceptance of the Big Bang.
It has been my observation that the Big Bang has been widely accepted and taught in public schools for quite a long time and only recently has its lack of scientific merit caused some to question its validity.

I really don't understand fellow Christians having a problem with what may be the single most important physical evidence pointing to a Creator. The Big Bang is a problem for the atheist position. [excerpt]

As a Christian, my faith in God and His Word take precedent over everything else.
As a biblical literalist I find that the Big Bang as a Naturalistic explanation for Creation denies God the glory for his work as he describes it in his Word.

Scientifically speaking, the Big Bang is a problem for everyone.

Had a few moments and skimmed the second link briefly.

One thing I disagree with is, true or false, the big bang doesn’t have atheist underpinnings and is in fact a problem for the atheist world view. It is not a “secular” explaination of origins, because it doesn’t explain away anything, but in fact, from a secular stand point, brings up a very important question.

By basic logic if the universe began to exist then it must have been caused. Science based atheism coming out of the “enlightenment” went on the premise that the universe was eternal.

This was an important point to them because their explaination for all the wonders of creation was that, yes, a mechanistic explaination is absurd however given an INFINITE amount of time it were possible. The big bang theory says there is not an infinite amount of time.

(We of course know this without the big bang, not just through scripture, but also through logic...1000 years ago philosophers figured out that the universe must have a beginning because an actual infinity would be impossible to traverse. In other words if there were an infinite number of events preceding the current moment, we would have never arrived at this moment. See the “Kalam Cosmological Argument”).

There are still today some scientists who still subscribe to the “steady state theory” of the universe, primarily for their discomfort with the notion that the universe should, scientifically and logically speaking, require a Cause.

BTW, have you read Lee Strobel’s “The Case for a Creator”?