by Daniel Reneau

Created on: August 11, 2009

This is a very sensitive subject to debate with both sides having pros and cons. I see both as an answer to one of the greatest questions man has asked ever since he raised from the earth and uttered aloud where did I come from. I take the side of "Big Man" for one reason: what initiated the big bang? Before the big bang there was what, a seething writhing super-dense atom (no outside energy or matter in this model). The consciousness of the atom realizes that it is and expands exponentially and indefinitely.

The age of the universe is approximately between 13.5 and 14 billion years by scientific guesstimation. In the Book of Genesis time as we know it is not established until the fourth day. For three whole days; days and nights, seasons and months, years and aeons never existed. For three whole days earth was on Gods time which can be seconds or billions of years. "He walked on the face of the waters" what water if the earth was not created until a verse or two later. The water is the primordial aethers of the young universe. The thing to remember is this: it is to explain to creation to a shepherd, it is to be easy to understand and make relevant to their culture. It is easier to say six-thousand years rather than billions of years, it is a number closer to understanding.

God is as a scientist with our earth being his experiment. A scientist needs rules to run an environment so parameters are set to govern the universe and all the systems are in place to run. These systems and parameters are the foundations of mathematics, biology, chemistry, and physics.

I see God as the nebulous galaxy from Fururama when in the end he says "If you've done things right, people won't be sure if you've done anything at all" God is the consciousness of the universe and influences it so. You are able to move your body and regulate its systems but you have rules that cannot be broken; God is the same way he influences his body (the universe) within his rules.

As I was reading I saw someone had quoted Job about the world being round, it also says in Job "do you know the cornerstone thereof" referencing the creation of the earth. I take this as we do not and cannot understand fully the creation of the universe. I Also read of a bucket of watch parts being shaken. We are not talking of one watch, which is man-made to begin with, but a natural event. Man-made things need man, natural things fall into order even in chaos. Big bang does not dictate chaos; it lies within the realms of mathematics, of which everything is ruled by. You can say god is math. Man knows not true chaos and woe on the day he does.

In conclusion, God was the driving force of the big bang.

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