If religious people question the big bang theory...?

Science refutes the Big Bang. "Religious people" just happen to agree with that science. This is the pivotal question in the Creation/Evolution debate. Can something come from nothing? Logic and reason says no. Science says no.

If (since) God was the cause of the "Big Bang" we are able to see His orderly creative process. If the Big Bang initiated itself chaos and randomization would be the result. It would be like an explosion in a pile of metal, and no automobile would evolve. That is logic and science.

So, God the Intelligent Designer is the only reasonable answer.

I think the most likely explanation is "Chaos," as postulated by the ancient Egyptians and later, the ancient Greeks.

Chaos was a big swirly vat of potential but wasn't any particular thing because nothing had become anything yet.

When something eventually became out of all the potential, that was probably "God" since it would have the force of all eventual things in the universe lined up behind it waiting to exist.

But since "God" was part of Chaos, it would be part of everything that came from Chaos. The "divine spark" of "creation" (or, more accurately, "becoming") would spread out into everything that followed it or maybe inform everything that followed it if it wasn't actually part of it. As the first thing that managed to exist, it would be more powerful than what came after it to a point as long as everything wasn't getting harder/better/stronger/ faster throughout time (which I don't think is true. I don't really believe in a "Golden Age", past or future, and I don't think we're in a Golden Age right now, either.)

I can only assume, though, that "God," as the first thing to exist, would be more powerful than things that came after it because it managed to turn potential into reality. Maybe it isn't more powerful. Maybe, as Bill Murray said in Groundhog Day, God isn't omnipotent--he's just been around so long, he knows everything.

I don't think there was nothing because no theory accurately explains how to make something from nothing.

But there wasn't anything in particular in the beginning. It's the "without form and void" idea. Not nothing, just not any particular thing.

(And that really isn't splitting hairs. Really.)

It all comes down to individual beliefs, deary. When most Christians think of us, they automatically think we're all what my friends(both christian and non-) and I call 'bible-thumpers', who belief the bible and only the bible, and reject science without good reason. Then there are some of us, like myself and two people in my drawing class last year, who actually analyze scientific explanations for things, and try to find ways that both can be right. I, personally, believe that basic cosmic bodies, such as the planets and stars, were created by some outside force(what most people call 'the big bang', thought there is still the question of where it came from), along with 'God', who did the creating of everything, and then evolution was something that He/She/They(allowing for religional differences here) helped along while they were working on the creation of man. Furthermore, I do not believe that man evolved from the ape, but think primates may have been a prototype of the body, but I wouldn't really care if there was some science-loving Christian out there who found an explanation that makes sense that does have the two connected. I think 'Stereotypical Christians' (aka, bible-thumpers) are just close-minded people who can't see how many wonderful ways you can believe in science without compromising your religious beliefs.

As I side not, I wish people would stop supposing all religious people, and more specifically, Christians, are all like those stupid bible-thumpers who think that all non Christians deserve to die. I am friends with many non-Christians, and some of my friends who are christian are the same way. Most of us really don't cafe about whether your beliefs match ours or not, as long as you don't make a big deal about whether ours match yours...,

The Big Bang theory is not a theory about the "origin of everything", it's a theory about the evolution of the Universe from the first fraction of a second. And there's an awful lot of observational evidence to back it up.

The problem of the origin of reality is not addressed by the Big Bang theory. Nor is it addressed by "goddidit".

Jeez. You complicate things. The thing is, God's existence does not revolve around the earth being here. He could've been Born or CREATED or come around somehow before this. In the big bang theory things are different... And the circumstances are not here anymore.

Christians read too literally into the bible. i highly doubt god could just always be, and I'm pretty sure the big bang didn't emerge from nothing. but that's me.

God, Supreme Being, Spirits, are not physical, not located in Space or in Time, and are immortal. The Creator's created the Material World, but are not of this world. You can design and build a boat and row this boat, but does that make you this boat? No...

Hold up! I want to quote this for the ages:

"Why didn't the big bang then create life that could evolve to live on the surrounding planets?"

J. I. L. , you just win... the dunce hat. This is just epic, epic stupidity.

I always question the beginning of God. I'm just as curious as the next person. But there are certain things that the Lord hasn't revealed to us yet. Probably because He knew it would eliminate faith in order to have fact. If we had fact, then everybody would choose the Lord. That is not how the Lord operates.

They only believe in god because they were told that if they didn't they would go to hell ! The big bang theory does not take care of them after they die and that is what most of them live for ... to die... and go to a palace in the sky