What are the scientific ideas about the origins of the world and humanity compared to the christianity belief?
Scientific investigation has found that the universe is many billions of years old. The most widely accepted theory is that it began spontaneously in what has come to be known as the ‘Big Bang’, about 13 billion years ago. The earth is thought to be about 4 billion years old. Life on earth came about slowly through the gradual adaptation of new mutations which better adapted living beings to their environment – the theory of evolution. Not all scientists agree with all of this. In particular, the late Fred Hoyle believed in the ‘steady state’ universe, that is, the universe has always existed and had no beginning point. Christian belief has traditionally held that the Book of Genesis literally describes the creation of the world, which was done by God in a period of six days. A cleric, Archbishop Ussher, used chronologies in the Old Testament to calculate that creation occurred just over 6,000 years before the present. Since scientific discovery has shown this to be untenable, many Chr
