The Holy Bible in the Book of Genesis and science in its concepts of The Big Bang Theory supposedly differ in their understanding about the concepts of creation of Earth and the universe in general. The big bang theory suggests that the universe and the earth was developed over billions of years. The Catholic church interprets the creation accounts of Genesis in a variety of ways. The figurative and even the literal readings of the Book of Genesis are theologically acceptable to the Catholic Church. Some theologians like St. Ambrose, understood the concepts of creation in a literal way but majority of the Catholic theologians including St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Blessed John Henry Newman, Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI understand the teachings of …show more content…
Sacred Scripture wishes simply to declare that the world was created by God, and in order to teach this truth it expresses itself in the terms of the cosmology in use at the time of the writer. Dr. Scott Hahn, a renowned theologian points out that we might be misunderstanding the concept of the 'seven days' as spoken in the Book of Genesis. He goes on to claim that the ancient Hebrew word used for the number, 'seven' is same as the word used for 'the act of making a covenant'. So he claims that when Genesis talks about God creating the world in seven days it could well be talking about God creating the world in a covenantal relationship with the Holy. It is the ideation that the world is an orderly creation by an intelligent God that led to the beginning of science. This is so because if the world wasn't intelligible and orderly, attempts to understand its functioning and laws would be a rather futile