RE: God and Big Bang
April 9, 2017 at 9:05 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2017 at 9:05 am by Alex K.)
(April 9, 2017 at 8:50 am)Chad32 Wrote: I've heard people say he created the big bang when he said "Let there be light". Except space already existed before then, because there was a void, and a large body of water already there beforehand. People tend to gloss over the fact that he never said "Let there be a body of water". Somehow liquid water already existed in cold dark space when he showed up to start all the other stuff.
If we go with either cosmological inflation or variants of ekpyrotic theory as the most successful current scientific hypotheses, the "let there be light" part is actually not the beginning. In inflation, light only comes into play in a process called reheating which occurs after inflation, when the universe is basically completely emptied and the energy contained in the inflaton field(s) gets dumped into all the other fields, thus producing the hot soup from which all current matter originates. So the biblical account is a bit disappointing in that regard.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
