Does the Big Bang have anything to do with evolution?
A viewer heard Fr. Robert Boyd claim in a debate that 'the Big Bang has absolutely nothing to do with evolution,' and asks whether that is true.
Answer
You have to define your terms. There is cosmological evolution, which deals with inorganic things, and biological evolution, which deals with living things, so they are two different things. But to say evolution has nothing to do with the Big Bang is wrong; there is at least an indirect connection, because all the material the evolutionist uses to build a biological specimen comes from the elements that were supposedly made in the Big Bang. It is not a direct connection, but you have to get the material from somewhere. That is why theistic evolution makes no sense: if God can create the carbon and the other elements out of nothing, why do you need an evolutionary process between that creation and the creation of living things?