I like to leave the door open, and it makes more sense than any religious description of creation, or any religion's explanation of anything else, really.
Curiously, the Bible doesn't disagree with the Big Bang theory. Genesis 1:1:
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." (King James version)
That's a very general statement, but if you postulate that there is an all-powerful God as described throughout the Bible, then the Big Bang could have been the start of that creation of our universe.
Seems one of the blocks in one pyramid shows of having cut with POWER TOOLS. not hand tools.
How would they determine that it was power tools, unless they include people-powered as being "power tools."
I don't believe in the book of Genesis. It claims the Earth is 6000 years old.
The Bible doesn't say that at all. It
does indicate that
man is about 6,000 years old, but man wasn't created until late in the sixth "day" of creation, keeping in mind that the length of the creative "day" isn't stated, and could be thousands or millions of years each, or even varying lengths of time. But it's quite evident that they are not the 24 hour type of day.
After all, we talk about things happening in our day, or in George Washington's day, with the references obviously being somewhat longer than 24 hours, or even than a year.
And Gen Chapt 1 finishes the creation story, so it's in generalities that are compatible with what scientists say.
Ah! An intelligent question! But supposing there was one, where did what went bang come from?
Perhaps that was God's means of creating our universe. After all the Bible talks in many places about his tremendous power (Isaiah 40:26 and others).
I am still waiting to find out how some clown built a boat and gathered up two of each species and took them out for a 40 day cruise. There are millions of species on Earth. Must have been a very big boat. And how did he feed them? If it really did happen then after 40 days two very fat lions would be all that is left.
Well, the ark took, per Genesis maybe 50 years or so to build, being 3 decks at 300 cubits long (each cubit just under a foot and a half), 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high, (near 1.4 million cubic feet), and after talking about the animals to take on board, Genesis 6:21 says, "And on your part get yourself some of every kind of food that is eaten, and stow it with you, so as to have it for your eating and for theirs." [ they being the animals of course] (Byington Bible)
BTW, it wasn't strictly two by two, since Gen. 7:2,3 says, "Of every clean beast you shall take seven mated pairs, and of every beast that is not clean two, a mated pair; also of the birds of the air seven each, make and female, -- to keep alive the breed all over the earth.: (New World translation)
Note, too, that the ark wasn't the usual boat or ship, rather it was just a big box in shape.
In all of the above, a God as described in the Bible is required, one with powers we can hardly imagine but much of it described in the Bible. And looking at the complexity of the human body, it's easy to contemplate that it's at least as likely (much more, in my estimation) as blind evolution in a world where everything decomposes with time and exposure, rather than getting
more complex with time -- in a world where even intelligent man can't create life from scratch.