Most Americans Believe the Universe was Created by God Instead of the Big Bang Theory

According to a recent poll, most people living in the United States believe that the universe was created by God and not by chance, such as what the Big Bang Theory proposes.

According to a new Associated Press-GFK poll, 51 percent do not believe that the entire universe was created out of nothing and just appeared as a result of the Big Bang, but believe that everything exists and was created by a higher power.

Point Loma Nazarene University's Biology Prof. Darrel Falk is among the 51 percent of Americans who believe in God, although he believes that everything science has proposed - evolution, the Big Bang Theory etc... - all are compatible with the Bible and scriptural teachings.

"The story of the cosmos and the Big Bang of creation is not inconsistent with the message of Genesis 1, and there is much profound biblical scholarship to demonstrate this," said Prof. Falk to AP-GFK.

However, most evolutionists believe that the entire galaxy came into existence 13.8 billion years ago and that the Big Bang happened simply by chance rather than under the guidance of a divine being.

University of California, Berkeley Prof. Randy Schekman, the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize in medicine recipient, believes in the Big Bang Theory.

"Science ignorance is pervasive in our society, and these attitudes are reinforced when some of our leaders are openly antagonistic to established facts," said Prof. Schekman to AP-GFK.

According to the recent AP-GFK poll, Republicans are less likely to believe in Evolution and the Big Bang Theory than Democrats. In addition, Christians who attends church service on a regular basis are also less likely to believe in Evolution in the way that evolution advocates propose.

"When you are putting up facts against faith, facts can't argue against faith," said Professor Robert Lefkowitz of Duke University to AP-GFK. "It makes sense now that science would have made no headway because faith is untestable."

Prof. Lefkowitz previously won the Nobel Prize for biochemistry two years ago.

The AP-GFK poll was taken last month (March 20-24). According AP-GFK, those polled were chosen at random to take the survey.