How Was the World Created - God Or Big Bang?

Genesis, the first book of the Bible, presents the story of our world's beginning. An interesting explanation of our origins and evolution is thus proposed in conflict to what modern science claims. This clash between biblical affirmations and scientific ones has stirred even more the humans' curiosity regarding their provenience. So where do we come from after all?

This is what the Bible says: "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth." (NIV). Apparently simple and straightforward, but this affirmation leads to other questions and nebulous layers. The origins of the universe are assigned to a supernatural being. This Creator made the world, but who created the Creator? And how is this assertion to be reconciled with the latest scientific discoveries that suggest something else?

The controversy and the unclear mist that hinge around the matter of world's creation start with the very three words of the book of Genesis: b'reshit barah Elohim. The first word is often translated as 'in the beginning', which can prompt one to believe that it refers to the beginning of time or existence. However, the entire expression is translated as "When God began to create", which entails that God had been around for some time before the creation of our world. Barah is the third singular form of the verb "to create". Nevertheless, Elohim is a name for God that has a plural ending. This is not the only instance when God refers to himself in the plural. Through much of the book of creation the reader comes across such plural references ("Let us make man in our image"). Is this the traditional majestic plural? Or is God speaking on behalf of himself and other heavenly beings like angels? Or this plural reflects the concept of Christian trinity?

Unlike other creation stories from Near East, according to which world resulted from the mating between certain gods, the Bible's story presents the universe's coming into existence by means of God's words: "And God said, Let there be light! And there was light! God saw that the light was good."(1:34, NIV). Then the process continues in a six-day period during which light, elements of the universe, the earth, plants, animals, and finally humans are created.

Scientists, on the other hand, do not accept this version and have tried to come up with a more satisfactory explanation. This is how numerous theories about the origins of life and the universe have emerged. One of the most widely accepted is that of the Big Bang. According to it, all began with an immense explosion that probably occurred 15 billion years ago. A ball of matter and energy exploded and triggered the emergence of an expanding universe with stars and other cosmic elements. Life on Earth was a result of the symbiosis between the chemical elements and the physical conditions from our planet. Biological evolution has ensured the development of existence from the simplest forms to today's complex ones. Although quite complex, this theory is always haunted by a question: where did the ball of matter and energy come from and what triggered the Big Bang?

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