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10 Post author: gwern 17 September 2011 11:59PM

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Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 18 September 2011 06:07:41PM 2 points [-]

The big bang, and the rest science provides a more useful tool in predicting what will happen tomorrow than "God Did It", but there's no evidence that "Let There Be Light" wasn't what God said right as he initiated the Big Bang.

In general, there are many flaws in the metaphorical interpretations of Genesis which assert that it matches up with the order of events in the universe as scientists have determined them. See Talk Origins.