What is the difference?

I AM the difference.

A lot of people will say that if you're for religion than you're against science or that if you're for science you're against religion. A scientist named Francis Collins just visited my college and talked about just that. He believes that science and religion can work together and not have to work against each other always. He wrote a book called "The Language of God" Here's a piece from a book review I found about Collins's views on creation.

Those rejecting any need for religion might do so on the grounds that everything, even the most unlikely, can, in the final analysis, be explained by the laws of nature. But this is not true about the origins of the universe, which, Collins insists, cannot now and will not be explained by the laws of nature, implying that this may be the mother of all miracles! In other words, while it is the scientific consensus that the universe began at one moment—the so-called Big Bang—what preceded this moment remains uncertain and beyond the reach of science to determine. To reinforce this point, Collins cites Stephen Hawking’s observation that explaining why our universe emerged from the Big Bang is difficult unless it was the act of some God intent on creating human beings like us.

It is much like the chicken and the egg question.If the universe just spontaneously occurred what created the first molecule.If a god created the universe then what created the god.The Christian belief says their god has always been and that you cant make anything without a creator.Yet under this ideology something would have had to make the creator.Either or both can support the other as well as both can refute the other.I suppose it all depends on how one wishes to see it.

Ahh. Logic is preserved only if one uses it. Excellent. Of course it is. One does not negate the other. Only those that wish to bicker see it as opposite poles. Some of us believe that belief and science is mutually exclusive. Religion logically has nothing to do with belief. Religion is usually well kept history or dogma, belief is what turns the universe. Science is interpretation.

Assuming that there is a god, is religion. Science is not there to assume creators. They wouldn't know where to look for. On the other hand, science is still for the largest part convinced there's no creator necessary to get things to where they are today. Not every problem is solved, but that's what science is for. It just takes time. Science is not an instant solution like religion or spirituality.

But of course you are allowed to believe in a god, as long as you allow me not to believe in a god.

The "campfire chats" that were the origin of the creation story did not say that God created the Universe. They said that he created the Heavens. In those days, heaven meant "where birds fly", not the Universe.

Universe means everything. Where did God stand while he was creating everything?

When you correctly translate the Bible to English you will find that it is in 100 percent agreement with modern scientific thinking.

"Darkness was upon the face of the deep" even accurately describes the singularity that existed before the big bang.

At the moment of the big bang science says that the only thing that existed was light. "Let there be light"

The Bible also says "Let the earth bring forth the creatures of the sea" Evolution.

Ultimately, they are the same. Both believe in something that is not totally explainable, but the big bangers out there will tell you that their belief is based in logic (Because it is totally logical that this would happen spontaneously out of nothing, duh), and that faith is all fairy tales. Whereas the people with faith will tell you that the big bangers out there are just trying to explain away God and that they should just believe.

So, we may never know, but I think we shouldn't rule out looking for God because we think there might have possibly been a big bang.

Not entirely incompatible. One describes a process based on surviving evidence, with an unknowable cause. The other describes a supernatural cause with a conjectural process based on faith. This does not mean both are true but neither premise is excluded. However, the burden of proof is different for each.

Dont be silly, The big bang theory would have taken billions of years to happen. The bible clearly states that the earth is only about 2000 years old.

The universe has always existed.