His answer is honest. I suppose he could have admitted that he did not know the "how." Perhaps he felt that if he said "we don't know" he might open up a gap that atheists can fit the Fly Spaghetti Monster into.
Interviewer: What does it mean to say that God created everything out of nothing?
WLC (condensed): I think it means that God created everything out of nothing.
He elaborates with further questioning that God sparked the expansion of the universe (the Big Bang) but again says that he did so from nothing. The Bible simply says that God created the Heavens and the Earth. No information whatsoever about where he pulled it out of, in contrast to where we might guess the stories were pulled from.
Interviewer: What does it mean to say that God created everything out of nothing?
WLC (condensed): I think it means that God created everything out of nothing.
He elaborates with further questioning that God sparked the expansion of the universe (the Big Bang) but again says that he did so from nothing. The Bible simply says that God created the Heavens and the Earth. No information whatsoever about where he pulled it out of, in contrast to where we might guess the stories were pulled from.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
