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I went to MIT with a guy who is now an astronomer at the Vatican, and I’d bet anything that he accepts the Big Bang. Like evolution, no belief is really necessary any more.
The Vatican hires astronomers? Why? Are they looking for Heaven?
I don’t think Lazarus asked anybody to take a nibble.
Sometimes the beds are soft to find, but other times they’re just right.
I may have replied to this old thread, but that was the old me.
The simple answer is yes because there is a different time frame mentioned in the Bible (1 day is like a 1000 years).
And my own take on it, just because of the pun intended. To me everything is alive, Mother Earth, with the Sun her heart, our planet her womb, etc. This goes for the universe as well. All has a point of birth, and point of conception, which comes from sex between higher beings, so yes the Big Bang, means exactly that, The moment of conception from sexual intercourse that created our universe.
Peace
I can’t believe I’m the first person to note this:
Not only CAN a Christian believe in the Big Bang Theory, it was a Catholic priest who first came up with the idea!
Well, I guess there’s late, and there’s too late… 
Major apologies- I DID scan for Lemaitre’s name on all three pages before posting, but I was still WAAAAAAAY too late.
No issue, I cunningly hid it by copying the little accent on the i from wikipedia (and I meant too late in the sense that I also was astonished that it hadn’t come up when the thread was current originally).
I love your non-skeddo theology.
The question is a simple one with a complicated answer. Some Christians can believe in both, they are the intelligent ones who accept that the bible was written by an almost stone age people to try and get a view of something that was beyond their understanding, hell it’s still beyond our current understanding.
The issue that raises it’s head is that some people take the view that the bible is 100% factually correct, this is not the view of the majority of religious folk around the world.
So why pick Christianity over another faith? Well I would put that down to an accident of geography, you are more likely to pick a faith you were brought up in.
No, still hasn’t posted in more than 3 years. If you didn’t notice this thread is over 10 years old.
Perhaps I am being pedantic, but it is rather telling that there is an implicate assumption in the OP that the creation stories in Genesis are Christian. As near as anyone can figure these stories have been pretty much unchanged since around 500 years before there was a Jesus, much less a devoted fan club…and established in oral tradition far previous to then. Basically all the Abrahamic religions share the same creation myths, so there is no reason it should be harder for a Christian to lend credence to the Big Bang than a Jew or a Muslim. Actually Muslims tend toward more literalism IME, so I’d expect the BBT more heavily deprecated in that population.
I was talking about the other guy who came back from the dead. You know, the one who was pissed off and told people “EAT ME!” but that got misconstrued somehow.
thank you.