3.17.2006

Big Bang proof? Creationism support? Or both?

Both Wired and CNN, among others, are reporting on new findings by scientists that show the universe started in an instant, a very long time ago. While reading the articles, which purport that the new evidence points to the Big Bang theory, I couldn't help but foresee the other side of the issue- how this evidence looks from a Creationist point of view.

From the articles:

"[The new study] also helps explain how matter eventually clumped together into planets, stars and galaxies in a universe that began as a remarkably smooth, super-hot soup." Wired

"Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters" Gen 1:2

"...the universe went through extremely rapid expansion in the moments after the big bang, growing from the size of a marble to a volume larger than all of observable space in less than a trillion-trillionth of a second." Wired

"The theory, developed by Alan H. Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, holds that during the universe's first moments, inflation produced a sudden burst of heat and light that left an afterglow about 400,000 years after the event." Washington Post

"The probe's chief investigator, astrophysicist Charles Bennett of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, says the data reveal that the infant universe just popped out suddenly from almost nothing." Voice of America

"And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light." Gen 1:3

"Brian Greene, a Columbia University physicist, said: 'The observations are spectacular and the conclusions are stunning.'"
"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made" Romans 1:20

I suppose some of this might be a stretch, but I don't see it as a long stretch at all.

The universe is amazing, the grandness of it. In these articles, it is reduced to atoms and lights fluctuations and such- but I love just looking at the night sky, seeing on a dark night not only that you can look in one spot and never see the deepness of it, nor can your peripheal vision see the breadth of the universe. It's bigger than we can imagine. Numbers like 'trillion' and 'light year' are bigger than our mind can concieve. They might as well be infinity. How I feel is somewhat summed up in Ecc. 3:11 :
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

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