The Big Bang Theory

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth..

Genesis 1:1, NKJV

 

At least as far back as Aristotle, humanity has been looking for scientific explanations of the universe.  Thousands of years of philosophy and debate and speculation and theories and rationalizations have brought us no nearer a definitive answer than we were when the debate started.  Every scientific theory is still just that--scientific theory.  And when reality contradicts theory, they add more theory to explain away the contradictions.  Don't believe me?  Read up on the big bang theory sometime.  It's a hoot.

 

The whole universe was in a hot dense state, then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started...wait!  And I'm not talking about the TV series.

 

A speck of matter imploded on itself about fourteen billion years ago, give or take an eon, casting the cosmos into the farflung reaches of nothingness and giving it a hurricanic spin.  Gasses and particles gathered together and stars were born, drawing more particles and elements into their gravitational pull until planets were formed, and somehow in all of that cataclysmic chaos, a little yellow sun in a backwater part of our galaxy gave rise to eight or nine or ten planets.  The third rock from the sun was a little blue one, perfectly placed by the accidental serendipity of the whirling universe so that it was neither too hot nor too cold, but just right.  In the primordial soup of earth's surface, a pair of amino acids met, bonded, and formed the first proteins, which over the process of time developed into the building blocks of all life on earth.  First the one celled organism, then the jellies, then the tadpolic progenitors of the fish that sprouted feet, flopped onto land with an aberrant intake and exhaust system, climbed a tree, evolved into the ancestral primate that produced both monkeys and mankind, and now here we are today, the pinnacle of an evolutionary process which politicians now claim will be the doom of the universe unless we change our fossil-fuel consuming ways...

 

And I know people who actually believe what I just described.  Unfortunately, it's all just theory.  No, excuse me.  Not just one theory, but innumerable theories mashed together in a morass of mental gymnastics that defies coherent thought.  And these theories are widely accepted as fact, not on the basis of empirical data and evidential proof, but on the assumption that each theory in and of itself is true.  Even wilder than that, put ten scientists in a room together, and they'll probably present fourteen differing opinions on how all of those theories fit together to give us the universe as we know it.

 

The Big Bang Theory makes for great television.  But truth?  Not so much.

 

The Bible gives us the origin of the universe in one simple statement:  In the beginning, God created.

 

The all knowing, all powerful, everywhere present all the time God originated all that is in a thought and made it by an act of His own will, speaking it into existence with one miraculous phrase, "Let there be!"  And it was.

 

We are not told when He did it, in terms of years or millennia or eons, but He started start.  In the beginning, God was already there and He began it.  We are not told how He did it, except that He took nothing from nothingness and made it something, and did so with the limitless power and ability of an infinite Almighty God.

 

If belief begins with God, then believing the rest is not difficult.  It's when we choose not to believe in God that we begin looking for other answers.  And in our limited capacity, we develop theories.  Did you know that Charles Darwin started out as a believer?  But when his daughter tragically died, he rejected the very idea of God and began looking for another explanation.  Start with the wrong premise, and you will never arrive at the correct conclusion.  But when you start with God, everything else falls into place.