American and a few other countries politics and money and power tied to politics and religion, the fact that most people generally have been demonstrated to overestimate how scientifically competent and reasonable than they actually are, humans tendency and frequency to make strong positive assertions over their tendency to show curiosity over specifics as far as communication of ideas and meaning.
Religion/religious texts doesn't lend credence towards the Big Bang theory (or vice versa) because the Big Bang theory isn't an idea about something coming from nothing. Its a theory as in a scientific theory that exists as a model for the development of the universe, specifically its early development. In a very oversimplified black and white way I suppose as far as patterns go, anything that alludes to the idea that at some point what we consider the universe existed in a much more minuscule scale before greatly expanding in such a massive way that you could say is thereby validated by the Big Bang theory except as far as sincere and legitimate understanding of what a theory entails and many of the ideas used with such comparisons and parallels well. I mean lets consider the word know as in knowledge. Many people use that word very differently, but also in a way that overlaps. Its quite common with words, they exists to assist communication, but words aren't maths as far as perfectly conveying ideas exactly, more so they usually just try to accurately convey meanings and ideas. Except some people actually don't really think about such things and actually treat language like maths, and if not that can often just find conflict with other individuals with different subconscious or conscious ideas about it. Personally I tend to be quite strict with language, but I also tend to be aware of that. My point here being that when I use the word know or knowledge, I use those words to strictly express what is factual, as in strictly observed as in demonstrable as in my belief or perceived awareness or personal experience is not strong enough on its own to warrant my use of those words or ideas, unless I am being colloquial with them. Like I know someone people will skip my post because its more than a small paragraph… I mean I don't actually know, I am just using past experience and familiarity with people to made what I consider a fairly safe prediction heh heh. No individuals way of using language is the "right way" either, but therein the importance of people being able to communicate well with each other, and mutual understanding of certain ideas or at least attempted willingness to. So in one sense there is a "right way" of using language as far as consensus and agreement, my own very post using the English language demonstrates this naturally and some who read my post will be able to understand each word I use but not everyone will necessarily understand the intent or intended message behind the words, and its also highly unlikely that anyone will translate it perfectly either and also many will probably completely misunderstand as well. The why and hows to all that being determined by a bunch of variables.
Which is generally true of a lot of communication and say why when one individual says the word theory, some people will think scientific theory, a model which takes facts, observations and data and information and organizes it in such a way to provide answers to questions, predictions, more questions, and so on and some people will just think guess. Also peoples curiosity about the origin, the scope, and size of the Universe, I am never one to discourage that, but the nature of language and communication? When you think about how much miscommunication and arguments happen over so many smaller and mundane aspects of reality, factor in how many people make assumptions as far as communication with others, well, talking about the Big Bang and religion almost feels like sprinting and pole-vaulting before being able to walk? Its why in science you get taken more seriously if you have qualifications because it can signify that you have a certain understanding of ideas and terms so time isn't wasted over semantics which isn't necessarily something that can be afforded in an open public forum discussion and a small reason why conversations about such subjects devolve into name calling, character judgments, unfair generalizations so on.
Short version, religion and the Big Bang theory can be very compatible, after all their are a lot of different religions, religious people and approaches that can be taken. Some of those religions, religious people and approaches can also conflict with the Big Bang theory and anything, its a very broad banner encompassing a lot of other broad and specific ideas.
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