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So, the other day a friend asked me if I believed that the Big Bang theory was a pretty accurate representation of how the universe was formed. I said "Sure, it's pretty much been mathematically proven." And he was surprised by this because I'm a Christian-and like most people brought up in our public education system, he was raised with the belief that if you're a Christian, then you are not allowed to believe in anything scientific. Well, for the record, I also believe in gravity.

This whole schism between Science and Religion is one of Satan's greatest accomplishments, right up there with the whole separation of Church and State Myth.

I was not raised a Christian. Neither of my parents are Christians. I was educated in a school system that quashes free-thought and teaches that God does not exist. I was saved when I was 28 years old, which does not happen a lot from a statistical viewpoint. So, what earth-shattering event caused me to become a Christian? Near-death experience? The water in the reservoir turning to blood? No.

Einstein proved mathematically that God exists. It's true, although you will never ever hear that in a public classroom.

Was Einstein a Christian saved by grace? No. But he determined mathematically that the universe could not have possibly been formed by random chance in a finite period of time. He knew instinctively that in order for a random and chaotic universe to spontaneously create life required one thing to work: infinity. Then, unfortunately, while developing his theory of relativity he accidentally discovered that the universe has a beginning something along the lines of 15 billion years ago. His first instinct was to fudge the equation on his "static universe model" formula by adding a "cosmological constant" which essentially was an extra undefinable quantity (in the form of a Greek letter) added to both sides of the equation in order to make the universe infinitely old and thus allowing him to remain an atheist. He said this was one of the worst mistakes of his life. Later, Edwin Hubble confirmed that the universe was expanding and had a beginning at some point in the past. So, Einstein became a deist-a believer in an impersonal creator God.

So, to start wrapping up and going back to the beginning of this article, yes, I believe in the Big Bang Theory. Why? Because it's in the first three words of the Bible, "In the beginning." According to Genesis 1:1, the entire universe came into existence, brand new, a finite time ago. In the final decade of the twentieth century, astronomers and physicists have established that all of the matter and energy in the universe, and all of the space-time dimensions within which the matter and energy are distributed, had a beginning in finite time (simultaneously proving that Buddhism and Hinduism are scientifically inaccurate since their doctrines teach that reality is infinite).

Of course there's way more to it then that. Genesis 1:1 through 1:11 goes step by step through everything that we currently understand about how Earth was formed. Starting with the second epoch God creates water and microorganisms, then dry land, then vegetation, then the atmosphere switches from opaque to transparent, then comes aquatic life, then the birds, then the higher mammals, then man. Which is a pretty simple yet accurate depiction of the fossil record and everything that scientists have ever discovered about the development of life on Earth.

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