Talking about our universe as a whole brings up a great question that theologians and scientist have been debating for years. So much so that it has involved boards of education and trials in court. Was God the creator of the universe as many of us are taught in Sunday school? After all it does say in the Book of Genesis that God created the Earth and the Heavens in six days and rested on the seventh. Or did the universe just happen as a chance occurrence as the "Big Bang" suggest? Scientist Stephen Hawking suggests that the origins of the universe always has been and continues to be a chicken-and-egg question (Hawking, 2002). In a nutshell, Hawking notes, what agency created the universe (Hawking 2002)? By the same token, what created that agency (Hawking 2002)? Hawkins also notes that; ". . . in the last few years, it has emerged that the Laws of Science may hold even at the beginning of the universe. In that case, the universe could be self contained and determined completely by the Laws of Science" (Hawking 2002). The problem with this is Christians who whole-heartedly follow what is written in the Bible believe the total opposite. This one sided type

Today many scientists don't have trouble using both theories together using scientific data of the origins of the universe and God's creation of the universe. For example, astronomer Hugh Ross points out that the bible and the "Big Bang" theory complement one another, noting that the more one studies the universe, the more one can believe in God (Vera, 1998); manly because while science can take people back to just moments after the Big Bang occurred, there is still a small span of time in which no one really knows what has happened. Will religion and science ever agree? Simply put, yes. History shows us that science has slowly influenced religious beliefs and vice versa. Either way scientist today believe the "Big Bang" theory created the universe. If God did create the universe then that in itself can be considered a Big Bang.

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