Where Did the Big Bang Idea Come From?

Name: Charlie
Grade: 7
What is your favorite planet or star? Saturn
Question: Where did the Big Bang idea come from?

Thanks for your great question, Charlie! I also really like Saturn because of its huge (thousands of miles wide!) beautiful, smooth-looking rings.1 I normally like to call Saturn the “hula-hoop champion” of our solar system! And I also like it because it’s the second biggest planet that God created on day four of creation week in our solar system (Jupiter is the biggest).

Image of Saturn taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft
Public Domain via NASA

Now to your question—where did the big bang idea come from? First, I’m glad you called it an idea rather than a “theory” (this is what many people today like to call it). As you might already know, a theory requires lots of actual (observable) evidence to confirm it . . . and there’s no evidence at all for the big bang! Rather, many secular astronomers and scientists (those that reject God) believe that there is evidence for the big bang because of their naturalistic worldview (the “lens” they use to study everything in the universe).

And so the big bang idea comes out of this naturalistic explanation of the origin of the universe, which basically teaches that the universe created itself . . . from nothing! In other words, those that believe in the big bang idea have already rejected God’s Word (the Bible), which clearly says God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1).

From the biblical worldview, we know that God created everything in the universe in six literal days, as described in the first chapter of the Bible—Genesis 1. Obviously, the big bang idea does not fit with the Bible’s account of our origins.

Image from the New Answers Book 2

And from Scripture,

“You alone are the Lord. You made the skies and the heavens and all the stars. You made the earth and the seas and everything in them. You preserve them all, and the angels of heaven worship you” (Nehemiah 9:6 NLT)

So, like the angels in heaven, let’s remember always to worship our God—the Creator of us and the heavens!

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