So has the modern theory on how life to the universe proved the account in the Torah wrong?No and I’ll explain and does the belief in science that the universe is 13.8 billion years old disprove the Genesis account? No and I’ll explain.
So before the big bang the universe in generally believed to have been very hot and very compact and some say of infinite density,sort of like the conditions of a black hole.Infinite density would assume equal gravity,that’s issue 1 with the BBT without a divine assistance, is that black hole level gravity means in order the escape a black hole something must travel above light speed.No form of mass can ever travel light speed so it is impossible in my mind for mass to have been able to expand in conditions with that high gravity.For me that sinks the big bang ,infinite mass can not ever expand.Now lets talk about the “B’reishit or Genesis.
Gen.1:1-2 (I won’t offer an Eng. translation because it’s well known)
בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית בָּרָ֣א אֱלֹהִ֑ים אֵ֥ת הַשָּׁמַ֖יִם וְאֵ֥ת הָאָֽרֶץ:
הָאָ֗רֶץ הָֽיְתָ֥ה תֹ֨הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ וְח֖שֶׁךְ עַל־פְּנֵ֣י תְה֑וֹם
וְר֣וּחַ אֱלֹהִ֔ים מְרַחֶ֖פֶת עַל־פְּנֵ֥י הַמָּֽיִם:
“In the begining of God’s creation with the heavans and with the earth.
the earth was astonishingly empty and darkness was upon the face of the abyss(the deep also)
the spirit of God hovered upon the face of the waters.”
The use of the word tohu תהו in Biblical Hebrew means more than chaos but profound or astonishing chaos and the word t’hom תהום meaning abyss usually is interpreted as unformed chaotic water reserves,so English translation typically say “the deep”
It sounds like science has not disproven the Bible and matter of fact the Genesis creation account was far closer to modern science then earlier pagan creation accounts.So Genesis describes well what the state of the universe before the expansion of matter and energy happened.Now big bang theorists say this was less an explosion but a fast expansion of space and time co-equally.This makes great sense in that God molded and formed matter,energy,space and time like clay.After God said let there be light ,later on he put the stars in orbit in such a way as to give light to the day and light to the night and be signals for seasons,days and years.(Gen.1:14-19
So what about a six day creation vs. a universe that is 13.8 billion years old?
Is mathematical time the same as physical time,not always.Their sameness relies on the forces of nature being constant.Science can’t know how many ticks on a clock occured since the begining of the universe,they measure physical time based on calculations on how things age.It’s approximated that the universe is about 13.7-13.8 billion years old based on the oldest stars and expansion since the big bang.However if the forces at work in the universe were not constant then the that throws off time estimates.For instance it’s believed the Rocky mountains are newer than the Appalachians near where I live.It is the forces of nature that age a mountain range and if the forces of nature that aged the Appalachians were more intense in the days of creation then were the forces of nature that aged the Rockies.They say the Appalacians were formed when Africa crashed into North America and that is why Africa sort of looks like it fits into North America.This makes sense because the Appalachians are not growing and more or less jolted up when Africa collided with North America and then stopped growing soon after whereas the rockies continue to grow.But this does not prove that one is older than the other.God could have quickly caused Africa to crash into North America and used other forces to grow the rockies,mainly tectonic forces.
I live in an area where winters are harsh and the salt and sand used to de-ice the roads ages cars quite quickly.I had to get rid of a Subaru with only 82K miles on it because it was so rusted out including the under carriage(mostly the under carriage).Had the same car been driven 82,000 miles in Texas it would have been in mint condition or had my car been garaged in New England as well but I live in an apartment.So winters really beat my car up.So there is a clear difference between physical time and mathematical time and don’t get me wrong I don’t dispute that the universe has been aged 13 billion years but that does not make it 13.7 billion years on ticks on a clock.
Regardless of what mainstrean science says the universe can and likely is less than 10K years in age.Remember God controls time and not vice versa ,God can and does manipulate time like silly puddy ,don’t forget time slows down as it approaches the speed of light and may stop at the speed of light.Matter of fact Danish scientist Lene Hau stopped light from moving in 2001.So why couldn’t God stop light and this likely as Eintein believed stopping light would stop time.
If God can stop time by stopping light then this fully throws off any notion of the universes age in mathematic terms being accurate.
In Genesis/Breishit there was not mathematic time until God placed luminaries in the background of the heavens to signal ,seasons,days and years (Gen 1:14-19) and the “big bang” happened further back in Genesis 1:3 when God said “yehi or/let there be light”
So time did not exist as we know it in the primordial age of creation.So 13.7 billion years does not mean anything!
How plausible is the big bang happening randomly?
“If the rate of expansion one second after the BigBang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million it would have
recollapsed before it reached its present size. On
the other hand, if it had been greater by a part in a
million, the universe would have expanded too
rapidly for stars and planets to form.”
There you have it from Stephen Hawking (hundred thousand million million is a quadrillion I think)
So the odds of the big bang happening randomly would not even be 1 in a million or a billion but in the quadrillions.There is something called big bang natural selection,meaning that there were many failed BB’s before one worked but likely the number of the failed BB’s would have had to have been in the billions or trillions or even quadrillions with billions of years between each big bang.Because the failed BB’s would result in massive black holes which would take a long time to become dense enough to re-expand.
Also what I pointed out earlier that if the conditions of a pre big bang universe should in theory have had black hole level gravity.No mass or even light can escape a black hole.That is why they are called black holes because light can not escape,if you went inside a BH they would likely be well eluminated but the light can’t ever escape.I don’t think there is any chance of a random big bang.
Truth in Mikra 
Leave a comment