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[quote=Anonymous][quote]What's the creation story in science? The Big Bang. Like it or not, that idea was sold to you in the same way religion was, and you don't question it because people in power said so. Science is just another organized religion. At least actual religion gives us something to believe in. [/quote]

Not quite. Like all science, the current understanding of the Big Bang has evolved over time, and like all science, the hypothesis has been developed out of both theory and observational and experimental evidence, and it has been tested based on the predictions it makes. The most conclusive evidence for the Big Bang was the discovery in 1964 of the Cosmic Microwave Background.

The difference between religion and science is that science says, "I don't know for sure, but I think this is the way it happened based on the evidence we've found to date," while religion says, "It was God and we can't understand how it was done or why."

Our understanding of the initial moments of creation of the universe keeps getting better and pushed further and further back in time (right now it's to around 10 ^-37 seconds), and we keep learning more and more about the initial state of the universe, what might've caused the "Big Bang," and how our universe might relate to a larger "multiverse."

I don't think our understanding of Genesis has changed that much in the last century or so.

My Christmas story is that Santa Claus brings presents for the kids, which is a much nicer and more magical story than "Mommy and Daddy buy them, wrap them and hide them until you go to sleep." But the fact that's a nicer, more magical story doesn't make it any more true.

In the case of the Big Bang, the more we learn about it, the more amazing and incredible it is. We're learning about dark energy, which may be responsible for the fact that our universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate. Different cosmological theories imply that our universe might be embedded in a larger "metaverse" populated by other "universes" that may or may not have physical laws similar to ours.

All of that is mind boggling in its own right, and it's what we humans figured out on our own, using our brains and the tools we've created, without even having to leave our solar system.

With all of that incredible mystery there to explore, why would we want to punt and say, "God did it."? [/quote]

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