I believe science reveals the deeper facets of how God created all things, but knowing "How" is not important to having a relationship with God. All the first writers would need was, "God created all things." They believed and trusted that.
I have faith, trust, and belief. It is all I need. I realize it is not enough for you and I know I can never convince you otherwise.
and my original point was that it is simply easier to accept that an infinite being created all things rather than that "Nothing" created all things. If you polled the world, I think you would find most people agree with me. =)
Sure there would be questions about an infinite being, but how does nothing create everything?
If I may interject at this point. You are quoting 1 part of the big bang theory. It doesn't say there was nothing, it says there was a superhot super dense mass which likely reached a critical mass and exploded in the big bang. Now the movement of te galaxies is not at question due to observable evidence. But whatever theory you want for the start of the universe will be just that, a theory. Where did that mass come from? Well one theory is the cyclic theory that the universe expanded before , then contracted in on itself until it was a super mass again, then it exploded again. Another would argue that our universe in merely the output of a white hole. Another would say that our universe is but 1 being created and destroyed within the multiverse. Then of course there are the various quantum "holographic sphere" theories. So maybe a little more investigation into the various theories.
So the universe may not have started from nothing. Therefore no need for a creator. But let's say there was a divine creator who has created the universe as we know it within the Hubble Sphere (45 billion light years in Diameter, of course there may be more but we will never see it due to the speed of light). God created this entire universe yet we as humans are the chosen, intended residents of this universe. Let's think about that for a moment...
An average North American adult has a mass near 100 kg (actually a bit less, but people like to pretend all North Americans are fat).
The Mass of Earth is almost 6x10^24 kg.
Therefore, it would take
60,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 average North Americans to have the same mass as Earth.
There are only 6,600,000,000 humans on Earth (and not all are fat North Americans). So the mass of all humans put together represent a little less than
0.00000000001% of Earth's mass.
So how does the earth compare to the known universe? Well it's a long subject but this website has some great diagrams to show comparisons.
How Big Is Earth Compared to the Universe?
Loosely speaking, there are over 10 trillion known planetary systems in the known universe. The earth is inside 1 of these planetary systems. 1 in 10,000,000,000,000,000,000.
So does it seem logical to you? Imagine the biggest hotel you can think of. Now imagine that only 1 person was allowed to stay in it. That would not even scratch the surface on the scale of the Earth to the known universe. We as a galaxy are not significant to the universe, we as a solar system are not significant to the galaxy, and our planet is not significant to our solar system. There are over 7 billion humans on this planet and growing. Boxing day 2004 there were [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]
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Aye. There's the rub. If the lives of those people were no significant to you, then what makes you think that a whole universe which is exponentially greater in scale, was created for these insignificant primates on this insignificant rock. Does that seem logical to you?[/FONT]