I’ve always been interested in the intersection of science and religion. I spent lots of time on the early internet looking up debates of creation vs evolution. Just look at my old blog.
I just watched what I believe to be a very useless video on the Big Bang. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3MWRvLndzs
Science can be defined as “The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.” For me the most important word in the definition is “observation.” Science, at least how I learned it in school, was all about observations of phenomena. This leads to my problem with the Big Bang, who observed it? Or rather, what evidence have we observed that leads to its conclusion? To me it seems it’s not in the realm of scientific inquiry. Note: I understand the idea of derivation. For example, we know that there is an absolute zero temperature. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_zero) A high school student could derive a rudimentary calculation of absolute zero based upon observations they make. Maybe I will make a future video about it.
To quote from the video and insert my own opinion, I think it’s bold to claim with any certainty that “after a few billion years here we are” while previously stating in the video “time doesn’t even make sense” with respect to the Big Bang.
I was born in 1995. I was only 5 when we hit the year 2000. What a number. I’ve always been bad at remembering what year it was. To me it’s insane that it’s 2021, at least at the time of me writing this. But to me, every time I hear or see a year, I think, who got to decide that we were in year “1”? What made that year special? This might bring us back to my unconventional views of religion. If its true that the system of BC/AD or BCE/CE all use the same numbers that start with Christ’s birth, why is that the case? I think a lot of people (and not just people but more importantly all computers) just treat the year as a number and accept it as fact. Take unix time stamps for example. “The unix time stamp is a way to track time as a running total of seconds. This count starts at the Unix Epoch on January 1st, 1970 at UTC.” What is so important about 1970? Computers were invented then? My main point here is that I think it’s important to recognize implied assumptions of the whatever system you are working with.
Recently it was Easter. “He is risen” was written everywhere. I think it’s bold to ask people to believe someone came back to life after being dead based on anecdotal evidence. Do I believe an all powerful God could do such a thing? I think so. To me, this begs the question of why? What would be the purpose? The answer might be in John 3:16–17:
[16] For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. [17] For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
But why does the world need saving? Well, that brings us back to Adam and Eve and the Fall of Man.
This has been enjoyable to write but it’s getting late. I might make another version of this later.
