Sermon On The Theory Behind Creation

Christopher Eric Hitchens, a British-American author once remarked: “Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.” Isaiah 40:22 reminds us: “It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in.”

Cosmology is a branch of physics and metaphysics that addresses the scientific principles of the origin, evolution, and overall structure of the universe. It is heavily reliant on complex mathematical equations to support and understand the large-scale formational behavior of an evolving world. It is identified and seen as an orderly system or entity within the universe as it is dogmatically perceived. Cosmology is defined as a broad discipline covering the deductive reasoning of scientific analysis, religious or philosophical aspects of the cosmos and its nature. Religious and philosophical approaches may include the cosmos among spiritual entities or other matters deemed to exist outside the physical universe. Within certain reasoning, the "Big Bang" theory is regarded as the scientifically accepted explanation for the universe's beginning. However, it should be borne in mind that some aspects of cosmology are still considered theoretical and subject to further research and refinement due to the vast scales involved and limitations in observation technology.

There is much controversy over the opposing theories of science and many religions regarding the assumption of a “Big Bang” theory in contrast to the belief that the creation of the universe was in fact by God’s personal hand. Some Christians are said to view the “Big Bang” theory as compatible with their faith, interpreting it as the method God used to create the universe, with the "beginning" described in the first book of the Bible representing the moment of the “Big Bang.” But creationists differ in their opinion. Genesis 1:1-8 reminds us: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. And God said, “Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.” And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so. And God called the expanse Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.”

It should be emphasized that some conservative Christian groups, particularly those adhering to Young Earth Creationism, reject the “Big Bang” theory as improbable because it contradicts a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation story, which they believe describes a much shorter time frame for creation. The relationship between cosmology and religion is complex. While some cosmologists are said to be religious, others are believed to be either atheistic or agnostic in principle. In its scientific defense, it has been inferred that the “Big Bang” theory does not necessarily oppose the idea of God's work; many religious individuals, including Christians, are said to interpret the “Big Bang” as a scientific explanation for how God created the universe, seeing it as the mechanism through which God initiated creation rather than contradicting the concept of a creator. The main problem in its formulation is that the theory lacks concrete proof, only conjecture in the further important factors of creation, such as life itself, plants, trees, etc. Its main emphasis is on the initial concept. Little explanation, or scientific proof is offered as to how everything else was formed. The other prevalent factor is that the “Big Bang Theory” is exactly what it suggests: Theory.

But theory is not fact and can always change over time. Time is said to be relative. In a religious context, this may equate to the concept that God exists outside of the linear passage of time as we experience it, meaning that God perceives all moments of time simultaneously, essentially experiencing the past, present, and future as a single "now" because he is considered both timeless and eternal. This aligns with the concept that God created time itself and is not bound by its scientific limitations. Alper Mazun (No further details known) once remarked: “Time is relative. In human life, time is experience. The faster you archive a significant experience to your memory, the more you live in the same clock time. In physics, experience is represented by the distance traveled, and this entire thing is called the Relativity of Time. I want to age and die through archiving my experiences, not watching my biological clock. Please don't waste my clock time with mediocrity and egotism, let me use it towards serving to others.”