Anonymous asked:

I don’t understand your inability to comprehend a priest coming up with the Big Bang theory (or the irony that you find in it). Christianity does not reject it at all, save for the notion of its completely random occurrence.

You don’t understand?  Really?

I’m willing to bet that you DO understand, but you are just saying that you don’t to make a point.

I know that there are a lot of Christians who who have thrown out the Genesis story as myth and who still believe in Christ.  Given this, there would be no incompatibility.  But, as there seem to still be a LOT of very noisy Christians who do not feel this way (some of them have even run for president!), I don’t think a sense of irony is at all inappropriate.

Because, you see, 44% of Americans are Young Earth Creationists.  That is, they believe that he earth and universe are less than 10000 years old.  One of the things about the Big Bang, you see, is that, if you wind the universal clock backwards, it happened MUCH longer than 10000 years ago.  And, while I don’t have the numbers for it, I would guess that the percentage of priests who believe in Young Earth Creationism is even higher.

And then there’s that Biblical Genesis thing.  I don’t know if you heard about that part of the Bible that says that the earth was created in 7 days?  I mean, there are those who argue that that doesn’t mean that God’s days are the same 24 hour days as human days, but really, the Bible gives no supporting evidence for this argument. And the fact that God demands that people rest on the seventh literal day in human endeavors kinda speaks against it.

And then there are those who believe in Gap Theory, which prescribes that there is a long gap not talked about between the first and second verses of Genesis.  1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.  There are those who like to try to put a gap of several million years between these verses.  This was done a lot in the 18th century.  I’m not sure how many supporters this theory has today.  No matter how you slice this, however, I can’t quite make the Big Bang theory fit into the words that were used here.

So, I hope that this helps you understand my sense of irony

~ Steve