Gerald Schroeder was on Dennis Prager's radio show (third hour) today and I caught the final 2/3 of the interview. Schroeder's understanding (under questioning from listeners) is that everything post Big Bang is explainable without God. Only the Big Bang itself – creation of matter from nothing, in Schroeder's parlance – cannot be explained naturally and that allows for belief in God.
Schroeder was unable to forcefully address the cogent argument that we do not know what we will know 50 years from now. Just as it was absurd to man living 300 years ago that devices like the telephone, television, computers and the Internet would ever or could ever exist, we simply do not know what advances in technology and science will be made in the future, and how much light those advances will shed on what we call creation of something from nothing.
In short, God is not provable or disprovable until He is proved or disproved. That is how we have free will. If either happens, the world as we now know it will cease to exist.
Schroeder was asked when the dinosaurs lived and if they lived with man or before man. Schroeder answered "65 million years ago," but hastened to add his spin on that – it all depends on what perspective you view that time from, ours or God's. Schroeder's theory is nothing more than a dressed up and spun version of Shitat Sefer Temunah as publicized and explained by Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, zzt"l, who was Schroeder's better in both physics and Torah. As usual, Schroeder did not credit Rabbi Kaplan or admit that there is an old Jewish concept of an ancient universe, far older than 6000 years. I believe Schroeder does not do so for two reasons: 1) Most of his books are sold to Christian fundamentalists, who would not in any way be happy to learn that the universe and this world really are far older than 6000 years, no matter whose perspective it is being viewed from. 2) Today's gedolim (ultra-Orthodox Orthodox rabbinic leaders) follow the lead of Christian fundamentalists with regard to this question. These gedolim ban books and authors far too easily and could put Schroeder out of business in moments.
But the bottom line is this: Past believing that God created the world at the beginning, the Big Bang, (and perhaps coded into the world its specific development – and, perhaps not), and still watches over us today, nothing else must be believed. Evolution and other scientific advances do not need to be rejected.
God does not demand our stupidity, He demands or fidelity. Sadly, today's ultra-Orthodox rabbinic leaders have a hard time dealing with that fact.