The
big problem
with the
big bang, is that the scientists propose a spontaneous explosion which produced order out of chaos. The only explosions that we know about reduce order to chaos. The Bible says plainly that "He spake and it was done, He commanded and it stood fast." Psalm 33:9. That doesn't sound like an explosion. Also, Sister White says that God was not dependent on pre-existing matter when He created the earth. He created "ex nihilo," out of nothing, and the big bang presupposes an extremely dense particle of matter that for some unknown reason decided to explode. Does that sound scientific?
Sybil--pardon me if your question about why there are still apes has already been answered, but the "learned" hypothesis is that at some time in the remote past apes and man had a common ancestor, and then we branched off, and became mankind, and the other branch became the apes. Actually, if you really take it back to the beginning they really believe that we evolved from pond scum, and before that, form inanimate matter (a rock, as Dr. Veith says). In beginning biology class, one of the first things taught is that Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation; but later in the textbook they expect you to believe that spontaneous generation was necessary for evolution. They want it both ways. That's not science.