Creationism and the Big Bang

 

People have been debating the beginning of time since the beginning of time. No matter your religious background or philosophical beliefs, the reality is that everyone has a theory or an opinion on how the universe began. The two major beliefs in the world today, at least in the West, are the belief in a creator (God) or the Big Bang theory. They certainly aren’t the only two worldviews that exist in the world today, but they are definitely the most prominent. For today’s blog, I’m just going to focus on these two and briefly explain how I think the two are actually connected and how creationism actually explains how the Big Bang happened. 

The Big Bang theory comes from an Atheistic worldview and essentially teaches that everything that exists in our universe today exists because nothing exploded millions, or even billions, of years ago somewhere in space. To be fair to the belief system, I know that there is more to it than that, and there are probably scientists who are going to read this and get triggered by my oversimplification of something they say is very complex, but that is the most basic explanation I can give. Nothing exploded in space, and now here we are as a result of millions of years of evolution and natural selection. Now, while I could probably write an entire book on the various problems and contradictions that exist with evolution, I’ll just leave it at that statement. Nothing exploded. Think about that. Nothing existed. . . and then it exploded. And out of that explosion matter became a reality and then began to evolve itself and expand into everything that we see today. I find that very implausible to put it nicely, but I’d like to offer another explanation for how the Big Bang happened and how everything came into existence.

Genesis 1.3 says, “And God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light” (NIV). If you’re a Christian, you’ve probably heard that verse a million times. But have you ever actually thought about that verse and the implications of what it says? Before this verse, there was only darkness in the universe. The heavens and the earth were “formless and void” verse 2 says, and then God speaks light into the universe. Can you imagine what that might have looked like? The very first time light existed to penetrate and expel the darkness from heaven and earth must have been explosive. Now do you see why I think the Big Bang is a real thing, just the doing of an all-powerful and majestic God? The Big Bang is certainly something that caused the existence of the universe, but it was the doing of a mighty God who spoke it into existence, not an explosion of nothing that resulted in everything. It was the result of the very words of God revealing the glory of His creation. 

Now, obviously, I’m biased to this belief because I’m a Christian and always have been. However, even if I wasn’t a Christian and I considered the creation of the universe logically, it would make more sense to me logically for there to be an all-powerful being that created everything than to believe that the universe full of nothingness spontaneously exploded to create matter that then spent millions of years evolving into everything we see today. Even if I couldn’t completely understand it all, it would make more sense to me that there was a God who created rather than the universe creating itself. 

I’m not writing this blog to crap all over people who don’t believe in God or who believe in the big bang and evolution. That is never my goal and I hope that I never come across that way either in my writing or my teaching. However, I am called as a Christian to preach the gospel and share the truth of Scripture. I believe with all my heart that God created this world by the words of His mouth and I will unashamedly proclaim that truth as long as I have breath in my lungs. This universe didn’t create itself; it was created by a loving God who cares for us and wants to have a relationship with us.