Four Big Bangs Part 2

As I said in my last Blog, my favorite radio, 99.5 KKLA has Frank Pastore as the host of the afternoon drive home show. Last Tuesday he was talking about a new video he recently made with Prager University called "The Four Big Bangs", Cosmological, Biological, Anthropological and Psychological. Today I want to try and tie these to the Biblical account in Genesis.

Cosmological Big Bang: This is Something from Nothing, the Big Bang as we know it from Science. This first Big Bang can be matched to the first two days of Creation in Genesis 1:1-8: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (NIV)."

Here, on the first day, God created the Universe, the Earth and light. The Earth was formless and void, the planets and the stars had not yet come together. On the second day He started the process to separate the planets and stars and created the sky.

Biological Big Bang: This is the conversion of inorganic compounds to organic lifeforms. This second Big Bang can be matched to the third and fourth days of Creation in Genesis 1:9-19: "Then God said, 'Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.' And it was so. (NIV)."

On the third day God created the dry land and the plants. On the fourth day He finished the alignments of the Sun and Moon and stars to mark the seasons.

Anthropological Big Bang: This is the Darwinian question of evolution. This third Big Bang can be compared to the fifth and sixth days of Creation in Genesis 1:20-31: "And God said, 'Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind.' And it was so. (NIV)."

On the fifth day God created the sea animals and the birds and on the sixth day He created the land animals and Man. He placed man over all of the Earth, its plants and animals. Man's main distinction from the animals is God created man in His own image.

Psychological Big Bang (self-awareness): This is the question of morality and meaning, man's search for significance and purpose. The creation of Man on the sixth day and God resting on the seventh day aligns here. Genesis 2:1-3: "By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. (NIV)."

God created man in His image and that is why man has free will and introspection, and wants to understand the world around him. God rested on the seventh day and made it holy to show us that we need to take time from our everyday lives to understand our purpose and to worship Him.

Albert Einstein said: "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." We need both to understand the world that God created and in which we live.

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