No 6
(The Big Bang
- Its impossibility)
Everyone has heard about the Big Bang theory of creation. You know, that's where a blob of energy (some
call it: "the cosmic egg")
exploded somewhere in space and from there, hydrogen gas was supposedly created
and expanded itself across the universe. For some unknown reason and after an
undetermined period of time it started to re-gather itself by gravity to form
the millions of stars and planets that we observe at night. No one knows why and how it happened, it just
happened. So how do Christians defend
themselves against such a preposterous story?
Some can argue that the Bible teaches a completely different
story of creation, but, as we have said before, most evolutionists don't
consider the Bible as authoritative. There has to be another way; this is where
Scientific Creationism comes into play.
In the Big Bang theory, stars are said to have created
themselves because hydrogen molecules started moving toward each other by
gravity and got closer and closer. The
closer they got, the hotter the cloud of gas became and eventually got so hot,
that a star was formed. This all sounds very complicated, right? But, actually, there is a very simple scientific
explanation why this could never, never happen.
When gas molecules contract or get smaller they become hotter;
when they get hotter, pressure from the hot gas pushes out or expands. So there is gravity pulling in and pressure
pushing out or expanding. Science has
ways of measuring these two forces and, as it turns out, the gas pressure
pushing out is 100 times stronger than the gravity pulling in. A star could never create itself; it had to
be created.
There is a wonderful verse in 1 Peter3:15 - "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:
and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of
the hope that is in you with meekness and fear.” Let's use this verse as our focus in
defending the Bible whenever the Lord gives us opportunity.
The Lord used only five small words to describe the creation of
the stars and they are found in Genesis 1:16 "He made the stars also".