I have examined this area of contention from many angles. I was once a Christian and fully believed in the 6 Creative Days. I became an Atheist and understood their model of existence. I became a Pagan and invoked Godforms into myself, a spiritual experience far exceeding anything I had done in 25 years at a church.
In the end, I have discovered several things, I think.
1) The Universe is far more complex than any of us will ever understand. For an individual to conclude that X is the Truth, be it God or a Big Bang, seems utterly insane to me, for the reasons that follow.
2) Humans are very good at cherry picking data, without realizing it. Christians cherry pick what appears to support their point of view (I did when I was one), so do Atheists (Been There Done That) and Pagans (Yep, did it there too). All think they’re right based on the data they like… but all ignore the data they don’t like.
3) The human brain appears very good at making up data that it thinks should exist, even if such data doesn’t exist… or making inconvenient data disappear.
Anyone who concludes that They Know are probably wrong. We don’t know, we don’t even know what we don’t know. We have five senses that don’t provide us full access to data (we know that subsonic, ultrasonic, infrared, etc exists… but we cannot perceive it without special equipment). We don’t even know what other sorts of data may be out there. And yet, we, we pathetic fools seem more willing to die believing nonsense, rather than simply say “I don’t know”.
There exists no strong objective evidence for God… which means at best Science should be silent on the subject. However, There exists no strong objective evidence for God which means anyone banging a bible and screaming about salvation also, should be silent on the subject.
We can all make our own decisions, we can choose to believe in God, or believe in the Big Bang, or we can choose to consider all the options, examine all the Maybes and consider what we might learn from them, rather than foolishly trying to conclude anything. After all, a conclusion, appears as the place where you decided to stop thinking about the subject.
