Pope Benedict - head of the christian churches - said friday in a public speach, that Big Bang was no coinsidence but an act of god. Apart from accepting Big Bang as the creation of the universe, this also renounces the 'Intelligent Design' theories,

"The universe is not the result of chance, as some would want to make us believe,"  Pope Benedict - head of the orthodocs church - said on the day Christians mark the Epiphany" "Contemplating it  we are invited to read something profound into it: the wisdom of the creator, the inexhaustible creativity of God," he said in a sermon to some 10 000 people in St Peter's Basilica on the feast day.

While the pope has spoken before about evolution, he has rarely delved back in time to discuss specific concepts such as the Big Bang, which scientists believe led to the formation of the universe some 13,7 billion years ago.

Researchers at CERN, the nuclear research center in Geneva, have been smashing protons together at near the speed of light to simulate conditions that they believe brought into existence the primordial universe from which stars, planets and life on earth - and perhaps elsewhere - eventually emerged.

Most scientist think that science has proven that God does not exist, but Benedict said that some scientific theories were "mind limiting" because "they only arrive at a certain point ... and do not manage to explain the ultimate sense of reality ..."

He said scientific theories on the origin and development of the universe and humans, while not in conflict with faith, left many questions unanswered."In the beauty of the world, in its mystery, in its greatness and in its rationality ... we can only let ourselves be guided toward God, creator of heaven and earth," he said

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