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    Moses and the Big Bang: Science and Divine Creation
    Moses and the Big Bang: Science and Divine Creation
    Moses and the Big Bang: Science and Divine Creation
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    Moses and the Big Bang: Science and Divine Creation

    By Ken Goss

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    Moses and the Big Bang is a result of a lifelong interest in the subject of origins. On one hand, the scientific community digs deeply into the physics of the origin of the universe. On the other hand, the faithful Christians believe that God is the creator of all things. How can both be true? Do the findings of scientists support the concept of a creator God? That is the subject of this book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWestBow Press
    Release dateJan 22, 2018
    ISBN9781973611011
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      Moses and the Big Bang - Ken Goss

      Copyright © 2018 Ken Goss.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the author except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Scripture taken from the King James Version of the Bible.

      THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

      This book is a work of non-fiction. Unless otherwise noted, the author and the publisher make no explicit guarantees as to the accuracy of the information contained in this book and in some cases, names of people and places have been altered to protect their privacy.

      WestBow Press

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

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      ISBN: 978-1-9736-1102-8 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-9736-1101-1 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2017919386

      WestBow Press rev. date: 01/18/2018

      CONTENTS

      Dedication

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 History

      Chapter 2 Philosophy

      Chapter 3 Basic Facts

      Chapter 4 What Is a Day?

      Chapter 5 Day One: In the Beginning

      Chapter 6 Day Two: Gravity

      Chapter 7 Day Three: Dry Land

      Chapter 8 Day Three: Plants

      Chapter 9 Day Four: Time

      Chapter 10 Day Five: Sea and Air Creatures

      Chapter 11 Day Six: Land Creatures

      Chapter 12 Day Six: Man

      Chapter 13 Day Seven: Rest

      Chapter 14 Conclusions

      Appendix

      About the Author

      DEDICATION

      This book is dedicated to my family, for whom it was written.

      PREFACE

      Moses and the Big Bang started as a series of essays that I planned to give to my children and grandchildren at an appropriate time to teach them about my faith and to strengthen their faith. When I realized that several of those essays dealt with responsibility to a creator God, I decided to merge those essays into a book and share it with a broader audience. The fact that the first ten words of the Bible are In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth tells us that the message of a creator God is foundational to all other beliefs about God. This is why the anti-God forces have attacked this concept so vigorously. This book attempts to defuse those attacks.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I owe a special thanks to my sister, Sharon Duncan, without whose support this book might not have happened.

      INTRODUCTION

      I was born into a fundamental Christian family. At the age of eight, I received Jesus Christ as my Lord and King. In my sixty-plus years, I have attended church regularly. I have studied religious subjects both independently and in some college level classes, but I am not a theologian. I have studied several languages, but I am not a linguist. I have a degree in engineering, and I have worked as an engineer for more than forty years, but I am not a scientist.

      Growing up in a Christian family, I was taught early to believe in God and to accept the Bible as His Holy Word to mankind. Added to that has been my studies and my experiences, which have confirmed to me that God does exist and the Bible is His Word. However, at the same time I have studied enough science to have a fair amount of trust in many of the published observations and conclusions of the scientific community. For most of my adult life, the orthodoxy of the fundamental Christian community has insisted on their interpretations of the Bible, including the account of creation, and the scientific community has insisted on the accuracy of their interpretations of their observations. I have struggled to find the truth between these two positions. That is the subject of this book.

      CHAPTER 1

      HISTORY

      For millennia, men and women of many faiths and belief systems have accepted that there is a creator God who is responsible for the creation of the natural world. Almost every religious belief system, from the most advanced to the most primitive, has some form of creator and some form of creation account. In the Judeo-Christian and Muslim religions, the divinely inspired account of that creation was recorded by Moses several thousand years ago and is contained in the book of Genesis, the first book in the collection of ancient documents that Christians today call the Bible.

      The book of Genesis tells us that God created everything in six days and rested on the seventh. It is a straightforward account that the least educated among us can understand, but it is also deep and complex enough to hold the interest of the most inquiring and scholarly. Thus, it has been the subject of many interpretations and understandings.

      Fundamentalist Christians, who favor a literal interpretation, believe God created everything in six earth days of twenty-four hours each. In 1658, Archbishop James Ussher used the genealogies in Genesis to place the whole of creation at about six thousand years ago.

      However, this is not the only interpretation made by godly scholars. You only need to search the internet for phrases

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