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charliehall
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bombmaniac,

Science does not object to God. It just describes and predicts natural phenomena. If you could predict God’s actions, you would be either (1) a prophet, which we don’t have today, or (2) God Himself.

metrodriver,

The Big Bang was conclusively proven by the discovery of the cosmic background radiation by Penzias and Wilson in the 1960s. (This had nothing to do with Darwin who lived a century earlier.) That discovery also gave a proof of the approximate age of the universe: 14 billion years. There is also a lot of evidence for evolution and no competing theory explains as many facts and predicts as many observations; Darwin was not stupid but a careful observational scientist. It is not rational to dismiss empirical facts.

Furthermore, empirical observation can neither prove nor disprove the existence of God or of His Torah. That is why there is no contradiction between accepting the results of science and believing in God, including the fact that He created the universe.