Anonymous wrote:My kids go to Catholic school and they teach the various ways the Earth came to exist.

LOL, the earth came to exist in more than one way? So I guess Catholics believe in a multiverse?

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Anonymous wrote:Mainline Protestant here and the Big Bang doesn't conflict with anything in the Bible.

There's Genesis, but that can be interpreted as metaphor, as mainline protestants do. By interpreting anything that is found to go against science or other modern thinking, religious people can still hold on to their religions and be very modern, thinking people. and the big beliefs -- going to heaven and enjoying eternal life, are things that science can't prove. Science deals only with the natural world and can't disprove stories that take place beyond the known universe

Thanks for telling me what I believe.

Anonymous wrote:Mainline Protestant here and the Big Bang doesn't conflict with anything in the Bible.

+1

I believe God created man and the 'creatures' of the earth.

There are a lot of unknowns and life emerging from the primordial soup and the various species of today evolving from those single cell organisms is such a stretch. No proof on how life continued to be created as that process of evolution worked it's magic. And using the basic framework of each creature as proof to me is nonsense.

As for the big bang where did that mass come from and just how dense of an object could all that exists in the universe be.

The problem that most Christians create for themselves if holding to the 7 days.

Going with the current theory of evolution there is somethng that puzzles me. Why did man evolve so slowly in his accomplishments for so many millions of years. Look what has happened during the timeline of life the bible describes and that is less than 10,000 years.

Anonymous wrote:Mainline Protestant here and the Big Bang doesn't conflict with anything in the Bible.

There's Genesis, but that can be interpreted as metaphor, as mainline protestants do. By interpreting anything that is found to go against science or other modern thinking, religious people can still hold on to their religions and be very modern, thinking people. and the big beliefs -- going to heaven and enjoying eternal life, are things that science can't prove. Science deals only with the natural world and can't disprove stories that take place beyond the known universe

Anonymous wrote:While our understanding of the Big Bang is not complete, and likely will never be, it is pretty certain that it did happen 13.8 billion years ago, which led to the beginning of both space and time. All evidence supports this. We of course don't know how or why it happened, or what existed at the moment of the Big Bang or before it -- we only know what happened after it. I don't mean to begin an argument about the Big Bang; however, provided that religious people here assume/believe it did happen, I am curious as to how believers square the Big Bang with their belief systems. More generally, I am curious to know what major religions say about the Big Bang.

Major religions, which started before modern science, don't say anything about the big bang or any other scientific concepts. However, many religious denominations have come to accept modern scientific concepts and as noted, some religious people were scientists themselves. In the old days, clergy were among the only educated people there were, so some were scientists.

Mainline Protestant here and the Big Bang doesn't conflict with anything in the Bible.

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Anonymous wrote:The Big Bang theory was developed by a Catholic priest.

Georges Lemaitre

yep.

The theory is being reevaluated in the sense that it is being considered part of a larger framework, since there are things that cannot be fully accounted for, or things that we cannot understand. But it doesn't mean that it is considered incorrect -- just incomplete. It is pretty certain that, 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was extremely small, extremely dense, and extremely hot. Or, at the very least, that space and time, as we know it, began at a specific point in time, 13.8 billion years ago.

Not a physicist here, but I think I read somewhere the theory is being reevaluated. Which is to say "pretty certain" is not entirely correct. (I am speaking from a strictly secular point of view, because I don't know any religion's opinion on this.)

Episcopalians. Fine with science.

Anonymous wrote:The Big Bang theory was developed by a Catholic priest.

Georges Lemaitre

The Big Bang theory was developed by a Catholic priest.

My kids go to Catholic school and they teach the various ways the Earth came to exist.

While our understanding of the Big Bang is not complete, and likely will never be, it is pretty certain that it did happen 13.8 billion years ago, which led to the beginning of both space and time. All evidence supports this. We of course don't know how or why it happened, or what existed at the moment of the Big Bang or before it -- we only know what happened after it. I don't mean to begin an argument about the Big Bang; however, provided that religious people here assume/believe it did happen, I am curious as to how believers square the Big Bang with their belief systems. More generally, I am curious to know what major religions say about the Big Bang.