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== Bible and origins ==

== Bible and origins ==

Scientists who are biblical Christians believe that a [[creation]] model of the biblical kind clearly predicted a beginning of the world, <ref name="LENNOX"/> and thus this can be considered as successful testable prediction giving the credit to predictive power of Biblical message.{{#tag:ref|In the more exact sense the Biblical message in this context is regarded to be a sort of testimony about things that are believed to had happened in the unobservable past. The predictive power of this message relates to actual discovery of scientific evidence inferring this testimony (claiming the World had the beginning) to be correct.|group=note}} They warn against the danger of being seduced by speculation masquerading as science and they consider cosmic singularity to be compatible with creation of space, time, matter and energy ''ex nihilo'' (i.e. out of nothing) and often cite Arno Penzias, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate who stated in 1978 for [[The New York Times]] that "The best data we have (concerning the Big Bang){{#tag:ref|To avoid confusion, an explanatory note should be made that the ‘big bang’ in this context obviously connotes the concept of the rapid ''expansion of the universe'' formulated to interpret the evidence (such as the Hubble’s law<ref>{{cite web

Scientists who are biblical Christians believe that a [[creation]] model of the biblical kind clearly predicted a beginning of the world, <ref name="LENNOX"/>{{#tag:ref|cf. ''"Now we see how the astronomical evidence leads to a biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ, but the essential elements and the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same; the chain of events leading to man commenced suddenly and sharply at a definite moment in time, in a flash of light and energy."''<ref name="Jastrow"/>|group=note}} and thus this can be considered as successful testable prediction giving the credit to predictive power of Biblical message.{{#tag:ref|In the more exact sense the Biblical message in this context is regarded to be a sort of testimony about things that are believed to had happened in the unobservable past. The predictive power of this message relates to actual discovery of scientific evidence inferring this testimony (claiming the World had the beginning) to be correct.|group=note}} They warn against the danger of being seduced by speculation masquerading as science and they consider cosmic singularity to be compatible with creation of space, time, matter and energy ''ex nihilo'' (i.e. out of nothing) and often cite Arno Penzias, astrophysicist and Nobel laureate who stated in 1978 for [[The New York Times]] that "The best data we have (concerning the Big Bang){{#tag:ref|To avoid confusion, an explanatory note should be made that the ‘big bang’ in this context obviously connotes the concept of the rapid ''expansion of the universe'' formulated to interpret the evidence (such as the Hubble’s law<ref>{{cite web

|title=The Observational Approach to Cosmology

|title=The Observational Approach to Cosmology

|author=Edwin Hubble

|author=Edwin Hubble

|url= http://creation.com/exploding-the-big-bang

|url= http://creation.com/exploding-the-big-bang

|access date=27.09.2012

|access date=27.09.2012

}}</ref>|group=note}} are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole."<ref name="WhomadeGod"/> The [[New Atheism|New Atheists]] object to God as a final explanation for ''ultimate cause'', yet they themselves have no explanation for the existence of the mass/energy of which the universe is formed and thus must regard it essentially as a ''brute fact''. Due to the [[law of causality]], [[explanation in science]], if it is to avoid [[infinite regress]], always leads to certain things that are regarded as ''ultimate''.<ref name="LENNOX"/> American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist Robert Jastrow closes his book ''God and the Astronomers'' with these words: "At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the ''power of reason'', the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."<ref>{{cite book

}}</ref>|group=note}} are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole."<ref name="WhomadeGod"/> The [[New Atheism|New Atheists]] object to God as a final explanation for ''ultimate cause'', yet they themselves have no explanation for the existence of the mass/energy of which the universe is formed and thus must regard it essentially as a ''brute fact''. Due to the [[law of causality]], [[explanation in science]], if it is to avoid [[infinite regress]], always leads to certain things that are regarded as ''ultimate''.<ref name="LENNOX"/> American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist Robert Jastrow closes his book ''God and the Astronomers'' with these words: "At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the ''power of reason'', the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."<ref name="Jastrow">{{cite book

|author=Robert Jastrow

|author=Robert Jastrow

|title=God and the Astronomers

|title=God and the Astronomers