Believers and the Big Bang
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'God made the Earth by his power,
and he preserves it by his wisdom.
With his own understanding
he stretched out the heavens.'
- The Bible
In these programmes we’ve seen that the current scientific understanding of how the Universe began points to a definite moment of creation – a beginning of space and time.
We’ve seen that the Big Bang wasn’t just a random explosion, but had to be finely adjusted to make our lives possible.
In this video, we're talking to scientists who believe in the Big Bang, and believe that God created the Universe, to see how they reconcile these beliefs.
Dr. Peter Bussey is a particle physicist working on the search for the Higgs Boson; Gerald Gabrielse is Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University; Owen Gingerich is emeritus Professor of Astronomy and History of Science at Harvard University; Dr. Nick Saunders is a theologian and physicist who designed some of the instruments on the Large Hadron Collider; Dr. Jennifer Wiseman is Senior Project Scientist on the Hubble Space Telescope.