GOD AND THE BIG BANG
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Some have responded to my Facebook post about God and the Big Bang. Well here it is and I know some you may not like it, but maybe a few will accept it. The whole thing gets down to how I finally worked out that there is a supreme being.
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I know what the Bible says about the beginning and I know what scientist say about the beginning. There is direct conflict between the two, or is there?
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I’m a believer in science, it has given many wonderful things, it has given us the computer and now anyone in the world can communicate to someone else on the other side of the world. It’s given us life saving meds. And it’s given us things that we do not understand if we believe in God because it goes against what is written in the Bible.
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When scientists look at the universe they see the galaxies moving apart. Scientist can measure how fast the universe is moving and they can pin point where the galaxies originated. And the grand conclusion is that the universe all started from something smaller than an atom. Hard to believe, but I believe it. From some people it just sounds so unbelievable that they will never believe it. But what makes me believe? Well, for me it’s my starting point to my journey to believing in the Supreme Being.
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Something smaller than an atom produced the universe. From it came everything we see, every object on this earth and the earth itself. To me that requires that you have to believe that if the Big Bang did occur from something smaller than atom then you have to believe a supreme being created that small little microscopic speck and caused its explosion into something really grand. Thus my belief in God springs from the Big Bang.
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Now I hear the argument, if the Big Bang did occur and that I subscribe to that theory, then don’t I have to subscribe to what scientists say about other things such the existence of the dinosaurs? The Bible makes no mention of such creatures. So how do I get around that? For a long time I couldn’t find a way around it. It’s something I thought about for years, but I finally came to a solution that works for me.
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What I’m going to say next may cause many of you to want to stone me. I ask that you bear with me.
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Here’s my take. God was the cause of the Big Bang, though it took billions of years to reach it’s current form, it was just a blink of an eye for God. When he saw what he had made, he populated many of the worlds including our own with living creatures. Now here is the part that may get many mad at me. None of the creatures that God created for our world did not include man and thus man was not around to record the event. Remember, it was man that wrote the Bible and thus we know what happened after mans creation.
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There were two great extinctions of the earth. From what the scientists tells us the first extinction was caused by an exploding star and the earth was in direct line of the killing gamma burst from that star and it killed off over 90% of living things on earth. I believe this was an act of God since he did not like what he had created. I heard someone say that God makes no mistakes. If God was only dealing with earth itself and not any of the other planets that he populated with living creatures than I could agree with that. I’m not saying God is not perfect, what I’m saying is that not only did he create earth but also the universe and there are billions of other worlds in our galaxy and there are billions of galaxies. That means God may just had his hands full and when he got back to earth he found it needed a little change.
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I think after first extinction of the Earth, God went back to checking the other worlds he had populated and started making changes to them. Then when he got back to Earth again, things still were not to his liking. The Earth was covered many creatures and the Earth was lush with vegetation. But it still was not good and God deemed another minor adjustment was needed and he caused the second extinction by sending a meteor crashing into the earth which wiped out most of the living creatures. And like the first extinction man was not around to record the event.
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When God paid a third visit to earth he then found things much more to his liking and found that earth just needed a very minor tweak to make it better and this tweak was man. And as time past man took up the pen and started recording God’s work. Of course man did prove a slight disappointment to God for he had to make another minor adjustment in the form of the Great Flood.
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All this may seem silly to some, but as the pastor’s wife said to me “It’s not important how you came to God, it’s that you did.” So if you want to condemn me for the path I took to God then so be it, if you care less about the path I took but care only about my happy arrival, then thank you.
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