Not a hate-mail, but I don’t have a category for this sort:
I am not a scientist but I am a teacher (not in florida). I am a Christian and personally believe in intelligent design. However, I do not believe it is my place to force Christianity into the classroom either. I will live my life as a Christian and feel free to share my faith when necessary and unforcefully. Anyway, I don’t think anyone will get anywhere in this argument. First, even if there was a “Big Bang” where did the first big rock come from and what hit it? Even science can’t explain something coming from nothing. On the flip-side even Christians can’t explain when or how God began. All I know is that science can only explain so much and so does the bible. So, it’s faith in either God or Science. Faith that God did it or that science will discover it. I personally believe that science studies God’s creation including scientific laws. I also believe that there are some things in the Holy Bible that will better understood in the end. Even the gospels told of secrets that were not shared with the masses. Also, who can argue that evolution exists? That’s fact!!! The argument is creation v. just happening.
-tgilmer
Science provides a set of tools that yield no replicable data on God. The bible describes events and not processes. science describes process but not events. The two have virtually no over lap. The problems arise when the adherents of the Bible try to impose their system as the definitive final word on all things
It’s fine with most of us if someone wishes to be a christian ( I am) but I surely don’t want your religious opinions in my face as so many Christians seem to feel that they have a right to do. on the same token I keep my religious positions to myself in most circumstances. For me to do otherwise would be an act of disrespect. So may the Parmesan be with you
First of all, if you’re going to argue about the Big Bang theory, at least get it correct first. It’s not that a big rock was hit by something, which then made it asplode into the universe; it’s that Nothing asploded into Something, which then expended into the universe. It makes much more sense that way.
I seem to have missed the title of your post. No one has a testable hypothesis on what was the originating event of the big bang , anymore than they have Data on God’s parents ( or grand parents) actual origins are currently untestable. I’m reasonably sure that I exist but you are iffy, if not stop by the office and we can grab a beer after work
The Big Bang isn’t rocks hitting each other, it’s more a very large energy source expanding and creating lots of heat, contracting and attracting each other to create matter.
Thankyou for lifting the pro christianity comments out of the gutter and into the realm of intelligent discussion. I’m willing to be convinced that a higher being created the start of the universe as no one can prove anything at this stage. However, I won’t believe in it or base my life around it until someting has been proven, and that is how I think all people should live: finding answers for themselves. I personally haven’t found those answers in Christianity.
At least you get part of the argument, though I don’t know about this big rock you speak of. MAybe you should look up the Big Bang……….
It never fails to astound me that seemingly intelligent people like yourself can admit it’s possible that we are here through a process of events we are yet to understand but then go on to talk about the bible as if it is some sort of writings by mystical beings who knew secrets of the universe hidden to all us other mere mortals. Just a heads up for ya TG, the bible was written by men with vested interests from all walks of life living through different ages. Have you ever read the damn thing? It’s a pile of bs stories that any moron can see was chucked together rather haphazardly by some dictator who then went out and smashed people until they agreed to worship the drivel. Do some research TG, most of the crap in the bible is ripped off from previous relgions and given a new spin when the RC church looked like losing its grip on power. Wake up and smell the roses dude, noone will laugh at you for admitting it was a crock.
Well, the Big Bang was not the result of two bodies of mass colliding, it was the result of extreme mass and pressure building up and the resulting explosion casting mass into the blankness that became the Universe. Of course the question of where said mass came from is a mystery, some think it was the result of a previous universe converging in on itself, the duration of a single universe being referred to as a Kalpa. Another theory is that stored energy in the universe was the only thing existing, and eventually the energy became matter (kind of a reverse from splitting an atom and releasing energy). Either way, the universe was created when FSM got really drunk, so it is a moot point.
RAmen