Perhaps it would help you to understand that the Church did not condemn Galileo for his statement that the Earth was Round, or that it was not the center of the universe. He was not the first to state this, and this was not contrary to the Teaching of hte church.
He was condemned for therefore concluding and teaching that this fact therefore disproved the existence of God and the meaning of Salvation.
This is a direct parallel to the fact that the Catholic Church never criticized Darwin, who took pains to state in his works that they did not disprove the Christian belief that God made Man - however many other scientists have since tried to draw that conclusion.
just as today we have noted personalities like Richard Dawkins, who try to lean on extensive scientific background in Biology or other scientific spheres to claim that because some scientific fact or opinion exists that the whole concept of faith is incorrect.
They make the mistake of turning their opinion of science, and their atheistic belief system into a whole new a-theist religion. they are philosophically entitled to their religious belief that there cannot possibly be a god, but they commit scientific fraud by claiming to have any scientific evidence for this.
Another equivalence would be to say that because Jesus was not born in the year 1 that therefore the whole bible is a work of fiction by men writing in the year 300. The first fact has no bearing on the subsequent claim - just as the presence of a fly on the wall of this room has no bearing on the quantity of diesel in the tank of my car outside.
Some of the “Science” claiming that there could not be a God is so convoluted as to be perverse: e.g. some people claim that the theory of a Big Bang disproves the concept of Creation.
I would suggest that on the contrary our best current scientific understanding is that the Big Bang theory actually supports the religious position that
- There was a Void. there was no time so space no matter.
- There was a moment of Creation
- The created Universe has time as one of many dimensions.
- there will be a time when the universe ends. Time itself will therefore end.
- The Universe cannot have created itself, therefore it is likely that some influence from outside this universe had a causative influence.
The universe exists within a multiverse about which we know almost nothing. Time and Space are dimensions of this universe.
Our Faith tells us that God created the Universe. He created time. that the world will end. that time will end. That the universe exists within God, and only exists because of His Will.
Our Faith is in keeping with the best available scientific knowledge and theory. Atheism lack logical consistancy with this current understanding and relies on “we don’t know and cant know” what caused the Big Bang - but it cant have been God 'cause we know he dosn’t exist" - sorry but that’s got a gaping big hole in it.
My position is that I accept the theory of the big Bang, and trust on Faith that the Big Bang was the start of God’s Creation, It is in keeping with the artistic and figurative descriptions about that creation as described in His Revelation as described in Genesis but those descriptions are figurative, as they needed to be comprehensible to the people the Spirit inspired to write them and pass them down the generations until the could be written down.
