I read Jastrow’s book years ago, and I never forgot that closing line.
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The second edition was published in 2000. I read it when it first came out - about 30 years ago. I chuckled at that quote and have remembered it all these years.
But I disagree in two particulars with that otherwise fine closing statement.
First, it's not a "bad dream" to find an answer to a difficult question. It's a good dream come true.
Second, the theologians have not been sitting there for centuries. They've been stumbling around in the general vicinity, arguing with each other (and often killing each other) over minuscule details of their misinterpretations of the nature of Creation. They have less clue than than scientists, who (when they finally confront the necessity of a Prime Mover) recognize that the PM must have certain characteristics, and propose one that matches them. The theologians anthropomorphize their gods based on themselves, and then fantasize that they each were created in God's image. None of them have any idea what God's image is.
My God created the Universe from nothing at the time of the Big Bang, and then has watched The Experiment unfold for billions of years, with infinite patience. I am exceedingly pleased and proud to participate in this Great Experiment.
Your mileage may vary, of course. ;-)
The Big Bang is not consistent with the Biblical account of creation!
Science as a proof of the existence of God ping.
Science may demonstrate a first cause but only faith can demonstrate in the mind of man that the first cause of science is one and the same as the eternal God of salvation, the God of religion whose love is so complete that He offers to share eternal life with his lowly and material creatures.
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It is cool that Scientist can come to terms that there is a creator. But they don't give me hope. God gives me hope. And I took a short cut to the highest peak by just taking up faith in Yeshua. Now, we can just kick back on the highest peak and watch the scientist come to terms with the truth.
These two are especially weak. A precisely designed big bang? What precisely does that mean?
"Personal because it made a choice ..." That something happened doesn't imply there was any choice to its happening.
I always find comparisons between the Creation in Genesis and the Big Bang to be interesting, but this is just drawing lines and inferences where they don't exist, à la Schiaparelli.
This is an idea that transcends the Genesis account, it seems to me. The first verse, "In the beginning God created ..." indicates that the flow of time was a precondition of God's activities. It certainly fails to indicate that God created time, or set it in motion, or anything of that sort.
I have stated before that relativistic cosmology is more comprehensive in this regard than is Genesis, even if this is a more or less subtle distinction.
Please see #29shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach Adonai
The Lord commands us to bring the one who sins before his brother, such that he (the sinner), will be turned away from sin. If that doesn't work, bring him before an elder, if that doesn't work, bring him before the priest or rabbi. If that doesn't work, you are absolved from your responsibility.
Here's where I have trouble. I could care less what atheists think, say or do. They will meet their maker, and go to Gehenna. And I, like Abraham and Lazarus, will watch from the other side. Unable to give water to their soul.
I tried Lord, this post is evidence...may I be judged with mercy.
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The theory that God created the Big Bang, and 3.5 bajillion years later we have earth, is a joke.
IF you believe in God, in an all-powerful, all-knowing, Creator, then the Big-Bang-Evolution Theory is completely incompatible with what we see and observe now.