Can the Big Bang and Creation Co-exist?
Thursday, July 5th, 2007Yes, I believe that they can. From a purely Biblical perspective, creation (or intelligent design) took place in 6 twenty-four hour days. So overall, the creation of everything took 6 days times 24 hours. Genesis says that God created things using his Word. It says that he spoke, and things appeared, but what it doesn’t say is how matter came about. So, for all practical purposes, God could have used a “big bang” to create matter prompted by his word, and then sort it out later on the rest of the days. Another spin is that god used a “big bang” to create everything that is not described for us in Genesis. The only thing that is described how it is made is man. God could have also used a “high-speed” form of evolution that only took a few hours for the whole evolution process to take place, but this seems highly unlikely. Email me if you have more questions.
