Samuel P. answered • 08/08/19
Masters student in English and former teacher
No.
The big bang and Genesis have no historical connection. You'll find two creation stories in Genesis. The first, Gen 1, was composed/ compiled around 600 BCE (though that number has swung 200 years plus/minus depending upon the scholarship). The second, Gen 2, is a much older story composed anywhere between 1200-700 BCE. The first, which I think you're thinking of (welter and waste, God over the void, etc.), is certainly a more universal and transcendent style of creation than Gen 2. However, the central concerns of this story, whose authors were people without conceptions of modern physics, astronomy, or scientific method, are in fact to place the Hebrew creation story in concert with other creation stories of the period and place. I recommend you look up the Hesiod, Gilgamesh, Marduk & Tiamat, and Enuma Elish - all creation myths containing a welter/ watery void which a deity splits/ tears open to give creation to the world.
