Does the Judeo-Christian Concept of Creation Conflict with The Big Bang?
One questioner asks: According to my Bible God called the expanse above the firmament Heaven. He called the dry land Earth. According to your academic definition of a myth, Evolution and The Big Bang qualify as myths. No one has any proof that either of these explanations is true. They are both no more than theory. According to Occam the explanation that demands the least amount of assumptions is usually the correct one. To believe in Creation takes only one. Faith. To believe that anything as beautiful and as perfect as our Solar System came about by accident requires more faith than believing in God. This answer is courtesy of Todd Hoeksema, Stanford University The origin of creation is a widely discussed topic in both scientific and religious circles. It can be hard to reconcile ‘scientific’ and ‘religious’ answers to some questions. I don’t think that science and religion have to be in conflict. Certainly God and the universe are not – who’s in charge, after all? Genesis 1 says tha