• Question: Do you believe that God made the world or it was just a big bang and everything went into place?

    Asked by maurikaphylecia to Ruth, PB, Paul, Lyn, Katy on 21 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by tmbeharry, stephz.
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      Peter Balfe answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      I responded to someone else’s question “what was before the big bang?” with the answer “The quiet sound of God saying ‘whoops!'”.

      Quite liked that answer, not too proud to use it twice!

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      Katy Brown answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      I don’t believe in God, so I think it was a big bang – this is the most likely theory we have at the moment.

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      Ee Lyn Lim answered on 21 Jun 2013:

      I’m technically Buddhist, so…the gods that I think about are different from the Christian God! But either way I don’t think we can ever find out for sure if there is a God (or gods), and whether or not this God made the world. So I don’t choose to believe either way – I’ll just say ‘we don’t know yet’. If I had to say which one I preferred – I think I’d like the big bang to be true! It’s a more exciting story than a big guy in the sky waving his hands and having everything appear by magic…

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      Ruth Mitchell answered on 23 Jun 2013:

      I believe in God and I believe that God made the world using the Big Bang – so God was ultimately in control.

      Science can’t prove that God exists but it can’t disprove His existence. The reason I believe in a God is because I look at the world around me and there are certain things, like what happened before the big bang and the purpose of life, that can’t be explained without a God. In fact all of science actually points to the fact that there is a God and how amazingly He made the world and us!

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      Paul Waines answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      Hi maurikaphylecia (cool name)- I’m still struggling with this one! I had a christian upbringing, but in my adult life have seen little to make me believe strongly in God. I work with many people that do, many that don’t, and I have listened to both points of view.

      If there was a God, I don’t see why he would have created the earth so that just humans could worship him, but this kind of seems to be the case- and even then not everyone does, do they?

      The idea of the big bang is one that I can easily believe in- but I wonder what happened to cause it?

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