The Bible s Version Of How The World - 1756 Words

For hundreds of years, the majority of the world believed in the Bible’s version of how the world was created. The most common known story is from Genesis 1. In this verse from the Bible, God created the world in six days and then proceed to rest on the seventh which is why we are supposed to rest on Sundays. Each day God creates a different part of the universe. For example, the first day He creates light, the fourth and fifth day He creates all the land animals of the world, and finally on the sixth day He creates humankind, both male and female. This basic story was what most Christians accepted and believed in for thousands of years. Then in 1859, Charles Darwin released his book, On the Origin of Species, which stated that animals†¦show more content†¦It is much easier for people to say that the Bible is wrong and many have because there is not that much proof to back it up. If the Bible is taken literally word for word, a person would be able to say that it is w rong very easily, but by looking at the Bible more abstractly and interpreting it in different ways, it can fit with scientific theories much more closely. By taking a look at each day individually, what happens on and the order of these days, it become clear that creationism is quite similar to how evolution states the universe and world was created. A lot of the following ideas about each day came from an article written by David Wolper in an article called â€Å"Genesis and Science: More Aligned Than You Think?† for the Huffington Post in 2010 with a few of my own throughout. The Big Bang Theory is the scientific theory that attempts to explain how the universe was created. It states that the universe started out in a very small, very dense, and very hot area and then with the help of a huge explosion expanded into the universe we know today. What scientists have failed to prove is where the very small spot or where the first materials of the universe came from. God can be used to answer those questions. Like it states in Genesis 1, on the first day, God created heaven, earth, and light which is the Bible’s version of the Big Bang Theory. There is absolutely no way to