Scriptural and Scientific View of Creation

According to the Big Bang theory, the event that began this universe took place some twenty billion years ago. All the matter and energy now in the universe were condensed into a mathematical point with perhaps no dimensions at all. Then there was a cosmic explosion, and the universe began an expansion which continues to go on and on.

It would appear that there is considerable correspondence between the Genesis account and the Big Bang theory of creation. However, eschatological verification that God is behind the Big Bang and responsible for it, simply does not necessarily follow. The Big Bang could still have been an accident or something other than God. How can we really know for certain? Sooner or later we must rely on faith again. Perhaps the Big Bang is just a surprising natural phenomenon.

The concept of eschatological verification can be demonstrated in a parable. Two men are walking together on a trail. One of them thinks that it leads

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a kind of cosmic 'bounce', and begin to reexpand. . . . . But if the universe does reexpand, its expansion will again slow to a halt and be followed by another contraction, ending in another cosmic Ragnorak (from the Edda), followed by another bounce, and so on forever. If this is our future, it presumably also is our past . . . . Looking farther back, we can imagine an endless cycle of expansion and contraction stretching into the infinite past, with no beginning whatever" (Weinberg 153). If this oscillating model is the real truth, it avoids the problem of Genesis. Perhaps it is just the nature of things to be as they are, without bringing in God as the Creator. But just why the situation is as it is we cannot know. If God is behind all of this, we still must depend on our faith in order to arrive at that belief. One very important question arises at this point: Does every event have a cause? Must an event always have a cause? Paul Davies asks this in his book God and the New Physics. And he goes on to say: "Can something happen without any prior action or any rational reason? Newspapers often proclaim 'Object in sky unexplained.' This does not mean, however, that aerial phenomena occur that have no explanation, o
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