Posted on 05/06/2013 6:11:01 AM PDT by NYer
Who says that there wasn’t something there before the big bang. As far as I know the idea that the universe sprang into existence from nothing is only found in the bible. The big bang theory just says that at one time all the matter and energy were compacted into a very small package or a singularity. There is no evidence that I am aware of that there was nothing there before. This premise of the universe coming from nothing is just assumed by most people but it is possible that the universe is eternal. It has existed forever and will exist forever. The law of conservation of energy would seem to support that idea.
I view the creation story as God’s way of explaining a complicated process to a primitive man.
Or it was just primitive man’s way of explaining what he could observe of the universe.
Most Christians, including even creationists like William Jennings Bryan and (apparently now) Pat Robertson, had absolutely no objection interpreting the 6 days of creation figuratively rather than literally. With this figurative reading, you would expect religious people to embrace the Big Bang, because its alternative is a universe with no beginning and no end.
Unfortunately, there are plenty of literalists who insist on maintaining primitive man's mindset at all costs.
Reverse that; The Story of Creation lists every item of today's Big Bang theory, nuclear theory of the elements, our planet and its solar creation, the tectonic movement of the continents, growth of the plants, clearing of the air after development of the plants, growth of the fish, then dinosaurs (birds!), then animals and domesticated animals, then Man in exactly the right sequence - despite what they could “see” with their own eyes. (Even snakes, very late in evolutionary sequence, were properly put last in the Story.)
For example, the Story tells of forming one sea and one land, when everybody in the area knew there were multiple seas surrounding multiple land area in just their own small part of the world!
The Catholic tradition of the Bible being a record for the people of moral, spiritual, historical, inspirational songs, poems, stories, and parables - but not every story or parable being the literal Truth, not every story being religious or spiritually bound - is faithful to the Story of Creation being both completely and exactly True, but not literally precise.
I often point to John chapter fourteen and the Physics lesson Jesus gave to Philip, to illustrate how God will give use explanation within our understanding base, without overloading our capacities. Jesus was giving Philip a wonderful lesson on multi-dimensional Physics, but within Philip's knowledge level.
Of course it is scientific...If God said it, it's a fact...Maybe someday (but not likely) science will catch up to God...
It’s certainly not bible teaching.
TS Eliot was a poet, not a prophet.
In 2nd Peter 3:10, the Bible says, “..the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat..”
See, “great noise” = “big bang”, and it comes at the end.
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About the Big Bang, he basically says that he doesn't know if that represents an accurate understanding of that great mystery of the creation of the universe, but he does believe that it must have been a fairly large bang when God created the universe no matter how God did it.
(See clip of that part of his talk here, and try not to smile.)
I really think we are possibly already under God’s judgement. Has he already given us over to ourselves and our evil desires? I cannot think of any other reason so many people are so blind to what’s going on. It’s as if hearts have been “hardened”.
So many examples of exactly this in the Bible.
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