Part 4: What about the Big Bang theory?

Interviewer: An example of a specific area of conflict between Christians and science. What is so wrong with the Big Bang theory that leads some Christians towards the view of (young earth) creationism?

The Big Bang is an assertion that the Universe had a beginning. Scientifically this is a relatively new idea – previously cosmologists thought that the Universe had always existed. So the idea of a beginning to the Universe is common to both modern science and Christian thought. However, the idea of a Big Bang is in conflict with some readings of the first chapter of Genesis in the Bible.

Don’t provoke a conflict (between Genesis and modern cosmology) when it’s not necessarily there in the text. - Can you agree with this statement?