Genesis 1 (New International Version)


1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Here we see the first things God made.
"The heavens" is clearly listed first of all the things God would go later on to make.
What is the "heavens"?

The answer is that in the Bible we see many different things talked about and named "Heaven" or "Heavens"
Now of these many different things, we do see the idea for the full canopy of stars in the night sky....
So the idea of the "stars" is well within the scope of different meanings the bible will use in connection to the term "Heavens"

So "stars" = "Heavens"
This seems clear enough as to what the Bible wants us to understand as the first things God made in the beginning....Stars, but also all the other things up there in the stars, for the term "Heavens is not just talking about the stars like our sun, but also "all in the heavens"is the context i get from this 1st verse of Genesis...

To me this includes the many things we do find in outer space besides just the stars.

So right at the start of Genesis we find an idea that fits nicely within the concepts of the Big Bang idea as well as what we know from modern science as to how the universe evolved.

It has one different however....the Bible is very sure who caused this to happen..."God created"
The idea that God Created this universe is not an idea found in science at all.
There is no known way to test for a God in science, thus we should never expect to read that one day science proved "God did it"