Evolution?

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You managed to take something this topic supposedly isn't about and phrase it in such a way that I feel obligated to comment on it. The Big Bang is not taken on faith. It is the consequence of the fact that we can currently observe that the universe is expanding. If you look at where everything is moving and move backwards from there, you end up with a situation where everything was concentrated in a single point. There is a great deal of evidence that can be observed today to support this model of the universe. That's the opposite of faith. Do you accept that it's possible for police to solve crimes they didn't witness, or do you reject the entire idea as having to be accepted on faith?



I'm guessing when you say "time and chance" that you are referring to mainstream evolution. But that's not a particularly helpful way to describe it. Chance makes it sound like it's completely random. There is randomness in mutations, sure, but natural selection is not random.

I provided this link in the other topic.

Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution

If people want to discuss evolution, please confirm that you are talking about what science actually describes as evolution. Many people have an inaccurate view of what scientists actually say, even people who think they accept evolution as true.

Evolution, the process of gene frequencies changing over time, is an indisputable observed fact. It's not up for discussion.

The theory of evolution is a comprehensive model explaining the diversity of life which fits with all known facts and observations. This goes well beyond fossils. DNA, geographical distribution of organisms, and pretty much every concept in biology is either supported by or integral to evolution.

If the fact and theory thing is difficult to grasp, think of it in terms of something less controversial. Gravity is an observed fact. The theory of gravity is a model which explains how it works in accordance with our observations.

I don't have any objections to the Big Bang Theory itself. I have an issue with atheism in combination with the Big Bang Theory. The idea itself, that the universe came into existence due to an explosion, is not necessarily incompatible with the biblical creation account.

Since you pointed out the issue of an expanding universe, there are 17 scriptures in the Bible that said the universe was expanding long before astrophysicists figured this out via scientific models in the mid-1900's.