Creation
By Rhonda S.
@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
United States
July 14, 2020 2:43am CST
Did God create the universe or did it advance in a different way?
The Big Bang is the major belief, but there are dozens of others roaming around the scientific community, such as Steady State and Mirror Universe theories.
The science behind these ideas may be exceedingly difficult to understand (by me anyway), and a distinct few may be challenging to comprehend why they emerged as theories at all.
There's also a belief in Creation by a God who is loving and powerful. A magnificent God who can create whatever and whenever He chooses--He speaks and it happens. He is beautiful and creates beauty.
God created our planet and the expansive universe to show His Glory--and one look at the earth and stars declares the truth for every eye to see.
As you can tell I believe in God and the Creation story, though I love science.
This is where science and I will need to disagree.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
14 Jul 20
Last time I checked, the Big Bang was nowhere near losing any credibility, where did you get that from? Steady state or multiuniverses can be combined with the Big Bang, at the moment the evidence say there's no steady state and we have no way of proving multiverses, but the Big Bang fits nicely with quite a lot of scientific evidence.
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@Torunn (8607)
• Norway
15 Jul 20
@misunderstood_zombie They're finding things the Big Bang can't fully explain yet, of course. It's science, it'll never be finished :-)
The flatness problem f.ex., it has quite a few solutions, the most accepted one is that the universe is inflating. There's explantions for the first law of thermodynamics too, and of course there are other scientific theories about the beginning of the universe. But as the Big Bang is the one most of the evidence support, it's not on the brink of losing it's credibility.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
14 Jul 20
I read it on several sites stating that many scientist are finding problems with the Big Bang theory. They are still working to resolve such ideas as it violates the first law of thermodynamics and the flatness problem. These ideas are a little hard for me to grasp, so maybe I should have worded it differently.
Thanks for commenting.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
14 Jul 20
I don't see any incompatibility between the current theory about the origin of the Universe and the existence of a Divine Creator. Your rather glib statement that 'The Big Bang is on the cusp of losing credibility' could not be more wrong, however. It is the only theory which explains all the evidence we have that the Universe is expanding and that it must have a certain age in Time, as we now measure it.
What is remarkable about the Creation myths (yes, there are two of them) recorded in the Book of Genesis is that the sequence of events is very broadly correct, in contrast with the many other Creation myths of other peoples and cultures. That doesn't mean, however, that the Bible's descriptions of the Creation are literally factual in every detail. They are simple accounts made for the understanding of humans who were nomadic herders.
You would not (I hope) choose to use a Child's First Picture Book of Plant Life as a textbook in a Grade 7 or 8 Biology class, even though what facts there are in it are broadly correct! In the same way, you cannot expect to cling to ancient stories about the Creation, knowing what we do today about the Universe and the development of life on Earth.
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@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
15 Jul 20
I really didn't mean to write a glib statement, but I did read there are problems with this theory. I hope you have a great day.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
15 Jul 20
@misunderstood_zombie The point of a theory is that it fits the facts as currently known but can't be (or hasn't yet been) reproduced. The word 'theory' has quite different meanings in scientific terms and in common usage. What most people would call a 'theory' in common parlance would be called a 'hypothesis' or a 'conjecture' in scientific or mathematical terminology. The 'Theory of Evolution', for example, has not yet been demonstrated by experiment (to make it a law) but is, nevertheless, a perfectly well-established fact.
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@bird123 (10643)
• United States
22 Jul 20
Yes, God created this physical universe from a single point to expand into what we have today and beyond. It's just like a seed can grow into a giant tree. The real genius of it all is that the universe unfolds in such a way that mankind will be able to figure it all out in time.
Poof creation makes a nice holy book story, however it is far from reality.
I would not be so quick to give up science. Science is walking toward God whether they realize this or not. Science will Discover God before religion ever will.
@misunderstood_zombie (8142)
• United States
15 Jul 20
Thanks, God is everything to me. Science is just cool.
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