Let's defend the Truth

A)  The text of the speech by J.M.Bergoglio:

“When we read the account of Creation in Genesis we risk imagining that God was a magician, complete with an all-powerful magic wand capable of doing all things. But that was not so. He created beings and he let them develop according to the internal laws with which He endowed each one, that they might develop, and reach their fullness. He gave autonomy to the beings of the universe at the same time in which He assured them of his continual presence, giving life to every reality. And thus Creation has been progressing for centuries and centuries, millennia and millennia, until becoming as we know it today, precisely because God is not a demiurge or a magician, but the Creator who gives life to all beings. The beginning of the world was not a work of chaos that owes its origin to another, but derives directly from a supreme Principle who creates out of love. The Big Bang theory, which is proposed today as the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of a divine creator but requires it. Evolution in nature does not conflict with the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings who evolve” (Plenary Session of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences – Bergoglio speech at the unveiling of a bust in honor of papa Benedetto XVI – Casina Pio IV, October 27 2014)

B) References to Scriptures:

“God said, ‘Let the earth produce every kind of living creature in its own species: cattle, creeping things and wild animals of all kinds.’ And so it was. God made wild animals in their own species, and cattle in theirs, and every creature that crawls along the earth in its own species. God saw that it was good. God said, ‘Let us make man in our own image, in the likeness of ourselves, and let them be masters of the fish of the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all the wild animals and all the creatures that creep along the ground.’ God created man in the image of himself, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them” (Gen 1:24-27)

“Yahweh God shaped man from the soil of the ground and blew the breath of life into his nostrils, and man became a living being. Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, which is in the east, and there he put the man he had fashioned. From the soil, Yahweh God caused to grow every kind of tree, enticing to look at and good to eat, with the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 2:7-9)

“Yahweh God said, ‘It is not right that the man should be alone. I shall make him a helper.’ So from the soil Yahweh God fashioned all the wild animals and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild animals. But no helper suitable for the man was found for him. Then, Yahweh God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And, while he was asleep, he took one of his ribs and closed the flesh up again forthwith. Yahweh God fashioned the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man” (Gen 2:18-22)

C) Comment:

God is the One who IS, the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega.

God is the Almighty, the One who can do everything, the One who created Heaven and Earth, the Creator of all things, visible and invisible. God IS.

God has countless times intervened in history showing His Omnipotence, starting from creation to our times, through what are called “miracles” (that are not magic), namely the extraordinary supernatural events that clearly and unequivocally exceed the laws of nature and that are not humanly and scientifically explainable, and of which the human history is full.

How can a Catholic Christian liken God’s creation to the Big Bang?

To insinuate the doubt that God is not capable to do everything, as stated by Bergoglio, even those things that Science has not been able to understand and fully explain, is to deny, basically and essentially, God’s Omnipotence in creating.