Jesus affirmed the historicity and authority of Genesis. He believed in a recent, literal creation over long ages and evolution.

1. God Big Bang?
Created
Larry Kisner
Arizona Origin Science Association
World View Outreach Church

2. Topics
How did the universe begin?
Is the Big Bang the Answer?
Did the Big Bang happen
or is it coming?
What about the Starlight and
Time Problem?
Credits: Adapted from presentations
by Mike Riddle and Dr. Russ Humphries

3. Big Bang – Then What?

6. Questions for Evolutionists
Origin of the Universe
1. What specific evidence supports the claim of a
natural origin of the universe?
2. Explain how something can come from nothing in
contradiction to the first law of thermodynamics.
3. What is the evidence that the universe increased
in its order and complexity after the big bang in
contradiction to the second law of
thermodynamics.

7. Two Models
 Evolution / Theistic evolution
 Big Bang
 Universe 12 – 15 billion years old
 Stellar formation (natural processes)
 Biblical model
 God spoke the universe into existence
 Young universe
 God created the stars

8. Evaluating the Evidence
Evidence against one position is
support for the other position
Evidence against evolution is
Support for creation
What is the actual evidence
To support creation or evolution

9. A Young-Earth
Cosmology By Dr. Russell Humphries
If the cosmos is so young,
how can we see so much of it?
Farthest Galaxy seen:
14 Billion Light-years
If light traveled that distance at today's
speed, would it have had time to get here?

10. Earlier creationist
theories were not adequate
Theory Problems
1. Light created Fictional history in the sky
in transit No scientific explanations
2. Speed of light Data against it
has decreased Theory unclear
Neither explains other phenomena
Neither gives decisive biblical basis

11. Summary
The Bible + relativity
= different clock rates
Earth near center of universe
Clocks slower near center
1
day
Billions of years
Enough time to see stars

12. This newer creationist theory
starts from a Biblical basis
Biblical assumption gives a different cosmology
Big bang theory uses a non-biblical assumption
The Big-bang assumption needs scrutiny

13. Big bang theories assume
the cosmos is the same everywhere
“ ... our position in space is [not]
specially distinguished in any way…
this assumption ... [implies] that …
the universe is approximately
spatially homogeneous .”
— Stephen Hawking & George Ellis,
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
ho mo ge ne ous : uniform composition throughout

14. The assumption means the cosmos
would have no edge or center
The Public's Big Bang:
"In popular literature ...
the universe ... has a Edge Center
center and an edge. of Matter of Matter
"This is wrong ...
[It] has no center and edge."
— Edward R. Harrison, Cosmology
―Island‖ universe

15. Big Bang theorists imagine
that matter fills all space
The Experts’ Big Bang:
Travel infinitely—
you’ll never find space
without galaxies
No edge of matter
—no center !
(Window frame)

16. But the Bible says there is a center
Waters
And God said, “Let
there be an expanse
in the midst of the Expanse
waters…”
—Genesis 1:6

17. The Earth is near the center
[God] separated the
waters which were
below the expanse from expanse
the waters which were
above the expanse… waters
—Genesis 1:7
Became the Earth
(Genesis 1:9,10) below

18. The expanse is big
“Let there be lights in
the expanse of the
heavens …to give light
on the earth” … and it
was so.
—Genesis 1:14,15
―Island‖ universe with Earth near center

19. The expanse is big
“Let there be lights in
the expanse of the
heavens …to give light
on the earth” … and it
was so.
—Genesis 1:14,15
―Island‖ universe with Earth near center

20. A center makes gravity important
Big Bang Cosmos Biblical Cosmos
Matter fills all space Island Universe
No net force Net force toward center

21. Scripture says gravity affects the cosmos
―Altitude‖
For as the heavens are Big Bang
higher than the earth…
—Isaiah 55:9
Earth Heavens
Distance
―Altitude‖
Biblical Heavens
Earth
In the Biblical cosmos, Distance
we must reckon with gravity

22. Scientists agree: gravity affects time
Gravitational time dilation Fast
— Lower clocks tick slower
Predicted by Einstein
Shown by experiment
Slow

23. If today's cosmos is an “island”,
clocks near its center tick ~ 2% slower
2 % Slower
Faster
20 Billion
light-years
Billions of years
Insignificant today, but what about the past?

24. In the past,
the cosmos was smaller
Evidence for expansion:
Scientific: Red shift of light from galaxies
Biblical: 17 verses in Old Testament, such as:
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
— Isaiah 40:22

25. When the cosmos was smaller,
clocks at the center were very slow
Billions
1 Day of years
0.5 Billion
light-years
This happened on the fourth day of creation

26. During six days on earth, billions
of years elapsed in the distant sky
Age of Universe 6 days, E.S.T.
when Adam saw it
= (Earth Standard Time)
So light from distant galaxies could reach us,
and distant objects would appear to be "old."

27. This theory follows
straightforwardly from the Bible
―Island‖ Cosmos Relativity ―White-hole‖ Theory
Young
+ = earth
+ = Bang!
Unbounded Cosmos Relativity Big-bang Theories

28. The basics of this theory
are scientifically sound
If the cosmos is an “island”
— clock rates must be different
If the cosmos has expanded
— clock rates must have been very different
From all the science we know,
these conclusions are unavoidable !

29. Conclusion
God used relativity
to let us see a young universe
Clocks on earth slow during 4th day
1
day
Enough time to see galaxies

30. Book and video explain much more

31. Implications of the Big Bang
 God’s creation was not 6-days
 The meaning of “very good” in Genesis 1:31
 Death before sin
 The Genesis Flood was not worldwide
 Colossians 1:16 “all” does not mean all
things
 What do the heavens declare: God or
evolution?
 The authority of Scripture

32. Big Bang or Big Deception
 The big bang is NOT a fact
 Most evidence contradicts the big bang
 Many scientists (including astronomers)
disagree with the big bang
 The Bible does NOT teach the big bang
 The Bible teaches a young earth (universe)
which agrees with science

33. The Origin of the Universe
And God made two great lights; the greater
light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule
the night: he made the stars also.
Genesis 1:16
Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath
created these things, that bringeth out their
host by number:…
Isaiah 40:26

34. When I consider thy heavens, the work
of thy fingers, the moon and the stars,
which thou hast ordained;
Psalms 8:3

35. The Origin of the Universe
 (Ex 20:11) For in six days…
 (Ps 19:1) The heavens declare the glory
of God
 (Ps 33:6) By the word of the Lord were
the heavens made; and all the host of
them …
 (Ps 148:5) … for he commanded, and
they were created

36. The Origin of the Universe
I, even my hands, have stretched out
the heavens, and all their hosts have I
commanded (Is 45:12)
Nehemiah 9:6
Thou, even thou, are Lord alone; thou
hast made heaven, the heaven of
heavens, with all their host…

37.  (John 1:3) All things were made by
him…
 (Rev 4:11) …for thou hast created all
things, and for thy pleasure they are
and were created

38. Nothing Too Difficult for God
17 times the Bible declares that God stretched
the heavens
2 Sam 22:10 Job 37:18 Isaiah 51:13
Psalm 18:9 Isaiah 40:22 Jeremiah 10:12
Psalm 104:2 Isaiah 42:5 Jeremiah 51:15
Psalm 144:5 Isaiah 44:24 Ezekiel 1:22
Job 9:8 Isaiah 45:12 Zechariah 12:1
Job 26:7 Isaiah 48:13

39. A God of Miracles
 God created trees mature with fruit
 God created mature animals
 God created Adam mature
 Jesus fed the 5,000
 Jesus turned water into wine
 Jesus withered the fig tree (Matt 21:18-19)
 Instant learning of language (Tower of Babel)
 Instant healing of soldier’s ear (Luke 22:51)
 Creation was “very good” (Gen 1:31)

40. What Did Jesus Say
 Jesus confirmed Moses: John 5:46-47
God wrote it down for Moses: Ex. 20:11
 Jesus confirmed Abel: Matt 23:35
 Jesus confirmed the Flood: Matt 24:37-39
 Jesus confirmed creation: Mark 10:6
 Jesus is the Creator
 John 1:1-3, Col 1:16, Heb 1:1-3, Eph 3:9
Why do you believe the Resurrection if
you don’t believe the Creation ?