Difference between big bang theory and creation
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How is the Big Bang theory different from creationism?
Alan Bustany
Answered 4 years ago
How is the Big Bang theory different from creationism?
The principle difference is that the scientific theory popularly known as the Big Bang makes testable predictions that restrict what is possible. By contrast Creationism says some supernatural being did it, makes no testable predictions, and might as well be Last Thursdayism.
People mistakenly think that the primary purpose of a (scientific) theory is to explain things. Not so! Explanations are the booby prize of science. The real purpose is to make predictions that restrict what is possible. The greater the restriction, the better the theory, and the easier it is to demonstrate that it is wrong. Demonstrating where and how a scientific theory is wrong actually enhances our understanding of things…
God, on the other hand, is a fine explanation for everything, or at least whatever you want. God restricts nothing. Indeed God breaks whatever rules you might have at any time by performing miracles.
Just about the only way in which Creationism is similar to the Big Bang theory is that both give some sort of explanation for the origin of the universe. In just about every other respect they are completely different. Such reverence for explanations is consistent with a faith-based approach to life. If you have ever tried to answer a two-year-old’s endless stream of “but why?” questions, however, you will realise that all explanations end in:
It just is that way;
Because I said so;
I don’t know; or, for the theists,
Because God.
Explanations are also context dependent. There are many many different explanations for why I wrote this answer, depending on whether the answer is psychological, physical, historical, philosophical, logical, and so on. *The* explanation does not exist.
If you need your God for an explanation of things, go for it! I prefer to stick with the “I don’t know” explanation and seek out scientific knowledge of the limited areas where we do know some limited things.