Prior to Darwin's The Origin of the Species, a great majority of Christians believed in a literal rendering of Genesis 1 - a six day creation.
Once Darwin's book came out, people began to place their faith in evolution, and inevitably, even Christians began to falter. There was an enormous gulf between the Bible explanation and this new idea from Science.
There was a rift within the church - there were those who rejected "science" and there were those who sat on the fence.
The Christians who wanted to remain God fearing Christians, while acknowledging the "infallibility" of science, were forced to come up with an in-between explanation, which was found no where in scripture, and so the beginning of the end of a literal Genesis started, Once Christians, who were scientifically minded, saw how God's creation explanation was allegorical, it was not difficult to believe the rest of scripture could be neatly lumped in with an allegorical explanation also.
In my opinion, this is where the great watering down of God's word began in earnest.
Now, people could legitimize all manner of sin, and lifestyles. All of a sudden, homosexuality was no longer a sin in the eyes of an allegorical God. Nor was adultery, or fornication, or stealing, or murder and on and on. Each one of these sins could now be wiped away from the allegorical God.
In some Christian circles, some of the afore mentioned were still considered to be sin, while others could be acceptable in God's eyes.
Today, there are a great number of Christian "camps" If I am an adulterer, I simply seek out a church which allows for my kind of lifestyle. I will be indoctrinated into believing I was born this way. There was a genetic predisposition for my lifestyle, and after all, how could a loving God create me with a sin that actually condemns me to eternal Hell right?
So, once people began equating, or even elevating fallible man's "scientific" explanation, a great many "intelligent" people left the church all together.
For those who still wanted God to save them upon their deaths, an in between explanation for creation had to be found.
How can we explain the creation of the universe, and everything in it, including life, without God's six day fairy tale?
Well, the scientists must know right? Of course they did! After all, these are men of science, they know all the answers.
The Big Bang! Yes, that's what happened, it was the Godless, big bang!
Here is the modern day explanation of the Big Bang. - long ago and far away - everything was nothing. Nothing could fit within a dot on this page. Nothing was extremely dense. Nothing began swirling around and around until it exploded out into??? Wait, we have to rewind...nothing exploded, and at first, nothing expanded into space! Then the rest of nothing became everything, and everything was extremely hot, but then began to cool down - it grew colder and colder, to the point where everything began to gather together, and coalesce. This is where all the planets and suns came from boys and girls. It happened over billions and billions of years.
This was great! Now we can be Christians, and intelligent ones too! This surely is how God did things, because scientists know everything boys and girls! That's when Theistic Evolution was born.
For some reason, people place more credibility on fallible man and his science, over God's own word.
There were no scientists around when God created everything. But in God, we have an eyewitness! We have the word of God! But for some of us, that is not good enough. That is anti-intellectual!
For many years, Christians allowed the atheistic men of "science" to have complete control over science. However, today, we have finally arrived at a place where there are Christian, creationists scientists. These men and women are making it ok to once again take God's Genesis account literal.
The Bib Bang Theory is coming apart piece by piece.
Here is creation scientist, explaining more issues which prove the Big Bang never happened.
This is not a knock on my brothers and sisters who believe a Theistic Evolution, however, it is intended to show that we can understand God's creation account without having to evoke an atheistic explanation.
The following can be found here -
BIG BLUNDER
Another Big Bang Blunder
by Jake Hebert, Ph.D. *
2014 has been a rough year for supporters of the Big Bang model. In March the BICEP2 radio astronomy team announced purported direct evidence for inflation, which is an integral part of the Big Bang model.1 The media loudly trumpeted this as “smoking gun” evidence for the Big Bang, and some Christians eagerly, but uncritically, accepted the claim.2
Years ago, inflation was tacked on to the original Big Bang model in order to save it from serious difficulties. Secular cosmologists believed these problems could be solved by postulating that the universe went through a period of inflation—an extremely rapid growth spurt—early in its history. Over time, inflation theory became increasingly bizarre, leading to the idea of a vast multiverse composed of infinitely many pocket, or “bubble,” universes.
Many secular scientists loved the multiverse idea. If these predicted universes really did exist, then surely
some of them, they argued, would have physical laws allowing the spontaneous generation of life from non-living chemicals. Hence, they claimed that a creator was not needed to explain our existence: We Earthlings simply got lucky and happen to live in a universe whose physical laws permitted spontaneous generation and “goo to you” evolution.
Of course, there is no evidence for the existence of these other supposed universes, and this argument conveniently ignores the fact that spontaneous generation appears to be physically impossible. So even if these other universes
did exist, and even if
they all had extraordinary laws of physics permitting spontaneous generation, this would still do
nothing to explain the origin of life in
our universe.3
At the time of the BICEP2 announcement, the Institute for Creation Research pointed out difficulties with the claim and reminded Christians that secular scientists have often made dramatic announcements of alleged proofs for evolution, proofs which were later quietly walked back by secular scientists themselves.4
This alleged “smoking gun” was no exception. A mere two months after the dramatic announcement, even secular scientists were expressing doubts about the claim.5 By early June, the discovery had been discredited by two independent studies.6 One prominent theoretical physicist even called it a “Big Bang blunder” and noted that the BICEP2 researchers made their dramatic announcement to the world before their paper had even been peer-reviewed by qualified scientists.7 This was a serious breach of scientific ethics and protocol.
Worse yet, researchers from King’s College London are now claiming that accepting the BICEP2 results as legitimate would imply that the universe should have collapsed back in on itself shortly after the Big Bang, so that our universe should not even exist!8,9
This debacle should remind Christians of the dangers of trusting pseudo-intellectual secular origins stories over the Bible’s inspired creation account. Rather, we need to go back to Genesis and return to “the simplicity that is in Christ” (
2 Corinthians 11:3), accepting the words of the all-powerful, all-knowing Creator Himself. He was present at the beginning and has given us a clear and perfect account of our universe’s origin.
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