Big Bang Cosmology and the Bible

Do faraway stars prove that the universe is billions of years old? Doesn’t that conflict with the Bible? Has the speed of light always been the fastest thing in the universe? It is possible that the speed of light is not truly known? Was it always a constant, or could it have been briefly faster than it was now?

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Creation Week Symmetry

There is symmetry between days 1-3 and days 4-6 of creation week. Genesis 1:1 is the initialization of the story of creation. Genesis 1:2 describes the initial state of the cosmos as without form and void. In Hebrew this is tohu va-bohu (תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ). Tohu means “lacking form and purpose, unordered, desolate”, and Bohu means “empty, uninhabited, wasteland”. The first three days were the solution to tohu by bringing organization to the unorganized, and the second set of three days was the solution to bohu, filling the organized spaces with inhabitants.

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Theistic Evolution

Theistic evolution aims to reconcile the biblical account of creation with secular perspectives on human origins. Unfortunately, theological evolution denies the biblical concept of God being immutable, and the sufficiency of Theistic evolution seeks to reconcile the biblical creation story with secular views on human origins. Theological evolution denies the biblical concept of God being immutable and denies the suTheistic evolution aims to reconcile the biblical account of creation with secular perspectives on human origins. Unfortunately, Theistic evolution denies the biblical concept of God being immutable, and it seeks to reconcile the biblical creation story with secular views on human origins. 

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