Origins Flashcards
Explain the Big Bang theory
First put forward by a catholic priest physicist.
George Lemaitre
Universe began from a tiny ‘wobble’ of quantum energy that expanded with huge release of energy and as it cooled
Made gases of hydrogen and helium
Reacted together to make heavier and dense elements which made stars and planets.
Astronomer can measure how fast and where they are moving to.
Clarifying that they must have originally come out of one single point, the Big Bang. 13.8 billion years ago
Explain Cosmic Chance
They suggest that powerful intelligence like God’s
Must have begun it and set it in motion.
It’s just a very very lucky event
Explain the steady state theory
Universe is believed to be eternal and unchanging.
FROM FRED HOYLE
It has no beginning or end
However it is rejected and discontinued
Explain the one universe in a multiverse
Scientists think the universe is like a soap bubble and that there other soap bubbles out there.
New universes was formed
Thus parallel universes could exist.
Why is the Big Bang theory so believable
Most of humanity agree or are familiar.
Scientific than religious
Revolves around technology that simply helped us to advance to the answer efficiently
We’ll known scientists and astrophysicist
Like Albert Einstein
Stephen hawking
George Ellis
Contents of Psalm 33:6
Quote
The lord created the heavens by his command, the sun, moon and the stars by his spoken word.
Contents of John1:3
Through him god made all things, not one thing in all creation was made without him
Contents of CCC P297
Scripture bears witness to faith in creation “ out of nothing” as a truth full of promise and hope
Contents of genesis 1:1-2
In the beginning when god the universe,the earth was formless and desolate.
Contents of hebrews11:3
It is by faith that we understand that the universe was created by god.
What is the difference in gen 1 and gen2
Gen 1 is a more factual and more formal account low detail, where as genesis 2 is a more personal account because god talks to Adam in person in high detail
However both interlink to God Creation ‘Ex Nihilo’
God is the craftsman
Describe God
Keywords
Transcendent
Eternal
Immanent
Omnipotent
Omniscient
Omnibenelovent
Ineffable
