Moses and the Big Bang: Science and Divine Creation
By Ken Goss
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Moses and the Big Bang is a result of a lifelong interest in the subject of origins. On one hand, the scientific community digs deeply into the physics of the origin of the universe. On the other hand, the faithful Christians believe that God is the creator of all things. How can both be true? Do the findings of scientists support the concept of a creator God? That is the subject of this book.
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Moses and the Big Bang - Ken Goss
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WestBow Press rev. date: 01/18/2018
CONTENTS
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 History
Chapter 2 Philosophy
Chapter 3 Basic Facts
Chapter 4 What Is a Day?
Chapter 5 Day One: In the Beginning
Chapter 6 Day Two: Gravity
Chapter 7 Day Three: Dry Land
Chapter 8 Day Three: Plants
Chapter 9 Day Four: Time
Chapter 10 Day Five: Sea and Air Creatures
Chapter 11 Day Six: Land Creatures
Chapter 12 Day Six: Man
Chapter 13 Day Seven: Rest
Chapter 14 Conclusions
Appendix
About the Author
DEDICATION
This book is dedicated to my family, for whom it was written.
PREFACE
Moses and the Big Bang started as a series of essays that I planned to give to my children and grandchildren at an appropriate time to teach them about my faith and to strengthen their faith. When I realized that several of those essays dealt with responsibility to a creator God, I decided to merge those essays into a book and share it with a broader audience. The fact that the first ten words of the Bible are In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth
tells us that the message of a creator God is foundational to all other beliefs about God. This is why the anti-God forces have attacked this concept so vigorously. This book attempts to defuse those attacks.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I owe a special thanks to my sister, Sharon Duncan, without whose support this book might not have happened.
INTRODUCTION
I was born into a fundamental Christian family. At the age of eight, I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and King. In my sixty-plus years, I have attended church regularly. I have studied religious subjects both independently and in some college level classes, but I am not a theologian. I have studied several languages, but I am not a linguist. I have a degree in engineering, and I have worked as an engineer for more than forty years, but I am not a scientist.
Growing up in a Christian family, I was taught early to believe in God and to accept the Bible as His Holy Word to mankind. Added to that has been my studies and my experiences, which have confirmed to me that God does exist and the Bible is His Word. However, at the same time I have studied enough science to have a fair amount of trust in many of the published observations and conclusions of the scientific community. For most of my adult life, the orthodoxy of the fundamental Christian community has insisted on their interpretations of the Bible, including the account of creation, and the scientific community has insisted on the accuracy of their interpretations of their observations. I have struggled to find the truth between these two positions. That is the subject of this book.
CHAPTER 1
HISTORY
For millennia, men and women of many faiths and belief systems have accepted that there is a creator God who is responsible for the creation of the natural world. Almost every religious belief system, from the most advanced to the most primitive, has some form of creator and some form of creation account. In the Judeo-Christian and Muslim religions, the divinely inspired account of that creation was recorded by Moses several thousand years ago and is contained in the book of Genesis, the first book in the collection of ancient documents that Christians today call the Bible.
The book of Genesis tells us that God created everything in six days and rested on the seventh. It is a straightforward account that the least educated among us can understand, but it is also deep and complex enough to hold the interest of the most inquiring and scholarly. Thus, it has been the subject of many interpretations and understandings.
Fundamentalist Christians, who favor a literal interpretation, believe God created everything in six earth days of twenty-four hours each. In 1658, Archbishop James Ussher used the genealogies in Genesis to place the whole of creation at about six thousand years ago.
However, this is not the only interpretation made by godly scholars. You only need to search the internet for phrases