The Big Bang: Atheism’s Fairy Tale
Evidence
Let’s start here …
The Big Bang - Round 1
Once while traveling, I was scanning the hotel Bible and noticed someone had thoughtfully crossed out Genesis 1:1 – “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” with “Once upon a time”. Creationists, of course, are used to this mockery, along with the standard suggestion that we are dealing in areas of “faith”, while the enlightened ones are dealing with cold, hard science. One of the purposes of this blog is to roll back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz to show that so called science is dealing a lot more with fairy tales than they admit. It has brought me immense joy to learn that the empty propaganda pushed by science actually makes the case for the existence of God even more probable.
This blog (and probably a few more) focuses on the Big Bang. What is this, since everyone seems to have heard about it? Well, the BB is secular science’s attempt to explain the origin of the universe without having to bring in a supernatural cause. It is a theory (not proven fact) which has undergone countless revisions over the last century. Here is one explanation: The basics of the theory are fairly simple. In short, the Big Bang hypothesis states that all of the current and past matter in the Universe came into existence at the same time, roughly 13.8 billion years ago. At this time, all matter was compacted into a very small ball with infinite density and intense heat called a Singularity. Suddenly, the Singularity began expanding, and the universe as we know it began.
So how sure are we that this is what happened? Well here are some quotes, which are not hard to find on the internet:
Sara Webb, Astrophysicist - We know the universe had a beginning with the Big Bang
Anna Moore, Astronomer - We know the observable universe — the part we can visibly see and measure — began around 13.8 billion years ago with the Big Bang.
We know that space, the universe, had a beginning some 13.8 billion years ago
Our universe began with an explosion of space itself - the Big Bang.
And so on...Sounds simple enough. They “know”.
Reason
What do you think?
Not so fast!
This is a huge subject, but to start off, I’ll let some secular scientists discuss the BB. It is always better to hear themselves argue with their colleagues.
Back in 2004, an open letter was sent to New Scientist magazine discussing shortcomings in the BB. Since 2004, an additional 500 scientists have signed on. Bear in mind, these are not creationists, and are very highly credentialed individuals. It’s a long letter, and I have taken the liberty to cut out lots of it to get to the main points. Here are some selected quotes:
The big bang today relies on a growing number of things that we have never observed. Without them, there would be a fatal contradiction between the observations made by astronomers and the predictions of the big bang theory. In no other field of physics would this continual recourse to new hypothetical objects be accepted as a way of bridging the gap between theory and observation.
But the big bang theory can't survive without these fudge factors.
What is more, the big bang theory can boast of no quantitative predictions that have subsequently been validated by observation. The successes claimed by the theory's supporters consist of its ability to retrospectively fit observations.
Today doubt and dissent are not tolerated, and young scientists learn to remain silent if they have something negative to say about the standard big bang model. Those who doubt the big bang fear that saying so will cost them their funding.
Even observations are now interpreted through this biased filter, judged right or wrong depending on whether or not they support the big bang.
Today, virtually all financial and experimental resources in cosmology are devoted to big bang studies. As a result, the dominance of the big bang within the field has become self-sustaining, irrespective of the scientific validity of the theory.
These scientists are arguing for more funding for their theories, which brings up another point, namely none of you really has a clue where it all began, do you?
I hate to be the one to burst anyone’s balloon, but there will never be a natural cause found for a supernatural act.
Faith
Something else to consider ...
So What?
Why is this at all important? Who cares how it all started, when most of us are struggling to survive in these times? It is not an area to devote a lot of time and attention to. However, just for a few minutes here, consider this.
If for 200 years there hasn’t been a natural solution found for something as profound as the origin of everything we know, then a supernatural cause cannot be ruled out, can it? If, as we know, the universe had a beginning: that there was nothing—no time, space, matter or energy, then how, or what, acted in Nothingness to create it? What was the purpose? Who did it? Where can we find out about it?
Creationist have our answers found in the Bible.
So, partly this is a Biblical respect issue. In Psalms 33:6 we read “By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.”
Our natural minds can’t figure this out. How did He do it? Here is where I get to a point and say that God is God, and I am not. God is smarter than me (and everyone else) and He did it as He claimed.
So, if there is no natural explanation, then we have confront the probability that God exists. If so, we are accountable to Him. If so, the question is, how do we approach a Holy God? Well, He Himself solved that question for us.
1 Timothy 2:5 says: For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Please think about that!
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