Did God really create the universe or was the universe created by the Big Bang?

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Ok. thousands upon thousands of pages have been written on the question "how did we get here???" and over the years they have changed and contradicted themselves. i find it funny how the reason why we're here is explained in one lone, profound sentence that has never changed in thousands of years....

In the bigginning God created the heavens and the earth." Gen. 1:1

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--a girl in tn who is smarter than scientists.

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G-d started the Big Bang, and no, we are not descended from monkeys.

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I suppose the answer depends upon in whom you place your trust. God has stated that He created the universe and all there is in it. Man, rather than believe God's word, has entertained various theories, none of which have been substantiated.

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"God has stated that He created the universe and all there is in it. Man, rather than believe God's word, has entertained various theories." A reader will look very hard indeed to find a more deceptive statement. It leads the reader to believe that by theorizing the mechanism of creation we deny or reject God. That is a patent falsehood. If God created the universe, how did He do it? He didn't bother to elaborate. We'd like to know. So we try to find out using various means. Science among them.

The question is posed as if, when looking at the two choices, an individual contemplating the origin of the universe has to pick God or Big Bang. There are other possibilities. Perhaps these two are put up because they are arguably the most "popular" and are better known. Oh, and who said the creation of the universe by God or by Big Bang are mutually exclusive? Could not God have used "natural" means to create the universe by the mechanism of the Big Bang? There isn't a shred of physical evidence that will contradict that idea. None whatsoever.

Consider the controversy over the behavior of light. It behaves like a particle in some experiments, and behaves like a wave in others. Both sides had bulletproof (scientific) evidence. The scientific community drew battle lines. It got ugly. But cooler heads prevailed. Now we know that light exhibits what is called particle duality wherein it exhibits properties of both. It's not a particle or a wave, but rather a "wavicle" in the jargon of some investigators. The same thinking could apply here.

And once more, at the risk of being repetitious, let's review. Did God create the universe? There isn't one piece of physical evidence to support that idea. Is Big Bang theory confirmed by scientific fact? No. It's merely suggested. (It's a theory.) Could God have created the universe via the Big Bang? That's another theory. And no evidence whatsoever can be shown to refute it. Welcome to the Custom Burger Barn where you can have it your way. What would you like, please?

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All indications would seem to suggest that God may well have used a 'big bang' of sorts to create the universe based on the premise that it all had to have started first from a 'thought' or an 'idea' that could then be put into motion.

First answer by Pinkclouds. Last edit by Sammienicole. Contributor trust: 2 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 24 [recommend question]