Abstract
Ian Barbour, the noted philosopher of science, once asserted that creation out of nothing (creatio ex nihilo) is not a biblical concept; it was a "post-biblical development" to defend God's goodness and absolute sovereignty over the world against prevalent gnostic ideas. Thus, while the well-accepted Big Bang theory points us to a Creator and demands the creation of matter, allegedly the Bible doesn't demand thisonly that the cosmos somehow depends on God.