It is not scientifically possible to study the origin of the universe. The experimental scientific method calls for testing and repeating a hypothesis. The beginning of the universe can neither be tested experimentally nor repeated. In addition, no human observer was present to witness the beginning. Despite this, various ideas or theories have been proposed on how the universe began.
Some Christians are very much against the “Big Bang” theory. They see it as a non-believer’s attempt to explain the universe’s origin. They take this view because they do not believe God is the Creator of the world and all that is in it. Some ascribe to the Big Bang Theory, saying that it was God Himself who caused the big bang to create His universe. As Christians, we look to the Bible for our answers. If we are to believe what the Bible tells us, we cannot ascribe to either of those explanations.
In Genesis 1, we read that God created the earth before the sun and stars. The Big Bang theory requires it to be the other way around. In Genesis 1, God creates the earth, sun, moon, stars, plant life, animal life, and mankind in a span of six 24-hour days. The Big Bang theory requires billions of years. Genesis 1 tells us that God created all matter by His spoken word. The Big Bang theory begins with matter already in existence and never explains the initial source or cause of that existence.
In Genesis 1, God breathed life into the body of a perfectly created Adam. The big bang theory requires billions of years, and billions of chance circumstances, to get around to the first human, and it never can explain how the first microscopic life form happened to “evolve” from a non-living atom.
In the Bible, God is eternal, and matter and universe are not. There are different versions of the Big Bang theory, but in most of them, the universe and/or/matter are eternal. In Genesis 1, the existence of God is a given, “In the beginning God…” The true purpose of the Big Bang theory is to deny the existence of God. If we believe in God and His Word in the Bible, we cannot believe in the big bang idea. In all of the scientific attempts to explain how the world began, nobody has come up with a true explanation of the creation of life except GOD.
