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The Faith of Atheism & Christianity

How was the universe created?

The answer science (atheism) has is that there was a big bang.

God says that He did it.

Let's look at each of these:

What was the big bang?

In the beginning all of the matter in the universe was compressed into a ball smaller than a marble. This "marble" was spinning very fast. It couldn't stay together and it exploded in the BIG BANG which created all of the galaxies, solar systems, stars, our planet and us.

The dirt under your feet was in that original "marble".

So where did that dirt, and everything else in that original spinning "marble" come from? Until recently scientists said it came from a previous universe that had collapsed in on itself. That guess no longer works because they found that our universe will continually expand. It will not collapse back into a marble, so there is no repeating cycle.

So where did that original "marble" come from?

The answer is, we don't know. We have to take it on faith that there was an original spinning "marble" and that there was a Big Bang.

Here's a scientific fact. If a spinning object breaks up, the pieces that fly off all will be spinning in the same direction as the original object was spinning. This results in a BIG problem with the big bang. We see planets and moons in our solar system that a rotating backwards and are traveling in backward orbits. We see galaxies that are spinning "backwards". If the big bang guess was true, this could not happen.

To believe in the big bang requires a strong faith that is blind even to the scientific evidence we can observe.

God Made The Universe

In the Bible we have an eyewitness report of how the universe was created. God did it in six days.

He did not use a big bang and billions of years to create the universe. For example, if you look at the order of creation in Genesis you'll find that it is the opposite of the order of creation required by the big bang. The two are not compatible.

Why do moons, planets and galaxies spin "backwards"? Maybe God made them that way just so you and I would know the big bang was not true. So we would know that God's word is to be trusted, not fallible man's wisdom.

More on the beginning of the universe: The Red Shift Desert