In the Biblical account of creation as we can see in the first two chapters of Genesis, the central message the inspired scriptural author wants that God is the Creator of all things that exist, including man, whom he created in his image and then made him head of all his creatures. An important remark to make here is that the account of creation given in the bible is not an attempt to give a sequential account of the beginning of things.

The literary genre used in indicating from first to the seventh day of creation should not be understood with the modern scientific method. The point here is that the aim of the sacred author was not to present the things in their sequential order according to how they were created, but to show that none of the existing realities emerged out of chance or any other scientific hypothesis but all are creatures of one Creator God and that all were created from nothing.

Therefore, “the attempt to find scientific information in Genesis is dubious theology as well as dubious science. By treating it as if it were a book of science ahead of its times, we tend to neglect both the human experience that lie behind it and the theological affirmations it makes”. If we say that there was something before creation, and that this thing is not God, then it means that there were many uncreated realities before time itself. But this cannot be because several materials existing at the same time must be traceable to one primary origin. All existing things existed from something.

That is, all existing things are conditioned realities. For these to be conditioned, there is necessity for just one unconditioned reality otherwise, there is no existence for the conditioned realities which cannot cause their own existence. This unconditioned reality, or in the words of Aristotle and later by Thomas Aquinas, the Uncaused Cause, is the only one true God, the Creator of all.




We cannot hold that God created things from something, otherwise it will amount to saying that there was something before the “beginning” which does not hold. Both science and theology holds that there was a time when there was nothing. Hence, there was a time when there was no time for time itself is a product of a “beginning”. On the part of science, this time is zero time, that is “no time”. The Big Bang theory, for instance, holds that before the big bang, there was nothing including time. For this theory, the big bang was the beginning of time itself.

Thus, in a standard big bang theory, it is meaningless to ask “what went on before the big bang?” This is because there cannot be a “before” the big bang. Physicists believe that time is something physical and since it is part of a physical universe, it follows that if the physical universe had a beginning, then time and space themselves had then too. On the part of theology, St. Augustine, defending that God created out of time, thereby making time also a product of God’s creation, says that it is meaningless asking “what was God doing before creation?”.

For Augustine, there was no time “before” the Beginning. Time for him is a creation of God, and just like created world that had a beginning, time also had a beginning. However, we can see that the two positions accepted the fact that there was a moment when there was no time, that is to say, there was a moment of “beginning” of all things including time itself.

The problem lies in that while science stops at the big bang moment, theology, basing on philosophical metaphysics, goes beyond big bang which is a material reality, and thus a conditioned reality, to look at the unconditioned cause of the big bang itself.


Therefore, in order to solve the problem regarding the “beginning” of things, physical theories must admit the metaphysics. Thus, the “scientific evidence for a beginning can be combined with a metaphysical premise (such as ‘from nothing, only nothing comes’) to render a metaphysical conclusion that there must be something beyond physical reality which caused physical reality to exist”.


From this premise, R.J Spitzer makes a very wonderful conclusion that embraces both physical and metaphysical proofs saying:
If there is a reasonable likelihood of a beginning of the universe (prior to which there was no physical reality whatsoever) and (2) if it is a priori true that “from nothing, only nothing comes”, then it is reasonably likely that the universe came from something which is not physical reality. This is commonly referred to as a “transcendent cause of the universe (physical reality) or a “creator of the universe”.

CONCLUSION

Having shown the error of Big Bang theory in not identifying the Uncaused Cause of the universe but holding the origin of things to the material; in a sense, to an accident or chance, we cannot say that the theory is totally against the Christian doctrine of the fact of God’s existence and having Him as the Uncreated Creator of the universe. Science and faith are never in war with each other. What science needs is a simple humility of accepting its limits. Science, basing on its principles and methods, cannot go beyond the materials, hence, it has no capacity of penetrating into the metaphysical realities.



Reality does not end with things that can be touched and explained. As a matter of fact, Big Bang theory accepts the fact that there was a moment when there was nothing including time. But this was only to demonstrate that Big Bang really occurred. But Big Bang cannot occur if there was no being who put it into motion for things cannot be their own cause or simply happen by chance. Thus, Pope John Paul II holds the truth about creation is only vaguely found in the mythological cosmogonies outside the Bible but pertains originally to divine revelation thereby making it to be a truth of faith.

Learnclax article features insights before the big bang, the bang bang theory and the origin of things,the problems with big bang theory and God's creation of things.

Basically it is a reconciliation between the bible's account of creation and the big bang.

in summary : in d beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

xpholico:
in summary :
in d beginning, God created the heaven and the earth.
Genesis 1:1

you're not obviously not smart enough to comprehend this... you need like 10 years. I'm not trying to be offensive here my apologies!!!

By the way great write up/or copy, its absolutely right and I think theres a lot know the regular people don't or cant understand no matter how much we explain it.. we need to in indent like why is the sun so hot and yet the dark void [ space is endlessly dark in color, are we in a black hole, cause the if the sun lights up everything why Pluto so cold and the space doesn't light up?

Mafia001:
you're not obviously not smart enough to comprehend this... you need like 10 years. I'm not trying to be offensive here my apologies!!!

By the way great write up/or copy, its absolutely right and I think theres a lot know the regular people don't or cant understand no matter how much we explain it.. we need to in indent like why is the sun so hot and yet the dark void [ space is endlessly dark in color, are we in a black hole, cause the if the sun lights up everything why Pluto so cold and the space doesn't light up?

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