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Big Bang Theory - the universe has expanded from a singular point of high density and high temperature. This is proven by backtracking the movement of objects in space from expansion through laws of physics. This expansion is based off of red shift, the change in light due to the source of light moving away from the observer. From the explosion, heavenly bodies formed and formed stars, planets, and the Earth, until the matter transformed into the complex and orderly Earth that we know.
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Hubble's Law - red shift, shows either we are at the center of the explosion of galaxies (wrong by Copernican's principle) or the universe is expanding uniformly everywhere.
So how does the matter from the Big Bang transform to complex creatures?
Dark matter (which is still unknown) was also created and make up most of space. Expansion of the universe is driven by dark energy. The Big Bang created subatomic particles which created atoms which began to build up together due to gravity and form stars and galaxies. The Sun, gas, and dust collided to form planetesimals which collected together to form the 9 planets and their satellites. If was created through the long period of change from radioactive chemicals to nucleotide, then RNA and then protocells and eventually the first life through chemical evolution. From this, Darwin's Theory suggests that all life came from a common ancestor through evolution and survival of the fittest. Proven by simpler and simpler lifeforms back in the past through fossils.
Thing wrong - missing monopoles (they should exist if there was a high temperature conditions but there are none), the universe is flat with the rate of expansion (i don't understand this one), unequal amounts of matter v. antimatter, no existence of population III stars which contain only the three lightest elements of hydrogen helium and lithium.
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The Bible - The Earth was formless and empty (like a water planet I think) and God created light and separated it from darkness. He then separated water and the sky, then let land appear, then produced vegetation, then the sun, moon, and stars, and then created creatures of the sea and sky, then creatures of the land, then created mankind to rule over the animals and be in his image
Arguments against - Planet forming theories such that the Earth was all rock at first, evolution states that creatures have common ancestor, dates of the Earth
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My thoughts - The Big Bang Theory and creation of life thus suggests that there is a very minuscule, but still possible chance that there is life outside of Earth. There are also many questions about the plausibility of the Big Bang. Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution does seem to have a point about survival of the fittest. However, both creation by God and the Big Bang can't fully be explained by man.
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Take away - We do not know how we truly came to be, however it is definitely true that humans and the Earth are a very special existence with intelligence and are essentially an almost impossible occurrence/a miracle. IDK how we got here but I think that focusing too much on this problem unless there is more concrete evidence on either side is too much to count as a possible deciding argument about Christianity or not. However, the mere existence of humans and life is crazy because the conditions were met exactly such as distance from the sun, size of the Earth, elements of life, such that I am led to believe there is a higher power that is in control to create order from the disorder.
Update the day after: However, we could say that in history, science has explained what we could call miracles, such as chemistry and biology explaining how life functions. So, one could say that maybe science CAN answer creation and the beginning of life, we just need more time. For now, I will say that either is plausible, however each is under the assumption that their field is omnipotent, whether it be God or the ability of science to explain the workings of the world.
There is still more research i need to do to fully understand both sides of the argument so this will be put on hold for now