Catholic views on the Big Bang Flashcards
What does Pope Francis say about the Big Bang?
The Big Bang needed God as a starting point - For Catholics the Big Bang could simply be how God chose to create the universe.
quote from Pope Francis.
” The Big Bang theory does not contradict the creative intervention of God: on the contrary it requires it.”
What was God’s role in the Big Bang.
God must have created the matter and caused the conditions to allow the explosion to happen, so the universe was still created out of nothing by God (creation ex nihilo)
The Big Bang explosion happened at the perfect time and with the right amount of matter to create our complex universe - this hows that it must have been planned by an all-powerful God as he created the universe and everything in it flawlessly.
evidence from the Bible
“let there be light’ - Genesis (many Catholics believe this is a direct reference to the explosive light of the Big Bang)
How can this change a Catholics life?
Catholic Christians will read Genesis to learn more about what God is like and what their role in creation is., rather than reading it as exactly what happend ( they view the Bible as metaphorical and with a hidden, profound meaning).They wil try to support scientific progress to learn more about the world God made.
