The Big Bang Argument…

So when Christians say that science is making great strides to help them reinforce their faith by illuminating the “Designer” in the natural world it is yet another attempt to high jack scientific thoughts. One of these scientific discoveries it the theory of the Big Bang:  At the beginning of time and space there was a singularity or a dot of condensed mass and all at once it exploded in all directions and it seems that this must be due to a God making it happen. One Christian apologetic put it this way; if there is a cause then there must be a ‘causer’. I’ve heard it also said that there can’t be something from nothing so god is the something before the Big Bang. And all things burst from his mouth and it was good I guess.

The main reason scientists believe the big bang is a viable theory is that it was discovered that the universe is expanding. Things are constantly floating away from the center is a uniform yet accelerating way.  This leads to the logical conclusion that at one point in time all the universe was in that center as a super dense mass.  So the idea that something came from nothing is to negate the idea the dense mass was something. Also, it is like a Christian to take one piece of incomplete text and turn it into doctrine. They say, “no, you guys came up with it, and now we know god is real because he is outside space and time (supernatural) and space and time only existed after the big bang.”

This is how simple people think.  They take one idea and run with it instead of doing what any skeptical, intelligent person would do which is to probe the idea, discuss possible exceptions of explanations and continue to study the theory. There are so many theories that go past the big bang and many that try to discover more underlying realities involved in the universe that may prove the big bang theory to be laughable but it is the search and continued skepticism that keeps science going and our understanding evolving. Even if all the theories are proved incorrect it is still better than hanging the whole argument on “God did it.”