'Posted on 08/28/2015 5:03:56 PM PDT by The Looking Spoon
There is no rule that says you can either believe in God or the big bang theory…especially when God is the one who pulls the trigger. ;-)
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The big bang was he was not happy with space time and folks with his 1.o so we could be 2.o 3.0 4.0 who knows but you are right
Doesn’t sound like anything Sheldon would say. Must be Leonard!
Originally the big bang theory outraged a lot of scientists, because they saw it as an attempt to shore up the creationist view. In fact the name was originally used by the detractors to mock it.
“In the beginning (time) God created the Heavens (space) and the earth (matter) All at once..Space/Time and Matter. Call it whatever you want...its there for all to see and marvel at.
Voyager red shifted when it left the gravity well of the solar system. So the speed of light is not a constant, therefor the premise of the big bang is so... 20th century.
That is correct - and it was a Catholic priests, Georges Lemaitre, who first came of with it - thus, the suspicion.
For a really different view - which shows science and the Bible if full agreement - you might want to consider this:
Age of the Universe
By: Dr. Gerald Schroeder
http://aish.com/societywork/sciencenature/Age_of_the_Universe.asp
If I disagree, can we settle it with a game of rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock?
The why is not possible that evolution is fact and God sat back to see what would happen when he pulled the trigger?
Where did you ever hear that? It was the steady state theory that was largely mocked, because that required the constant creation of matter out of nothing and gave no plausible explanation for the expansion (red shift) between galaxies.
I heard an author who wrote a book about it interviewed by Dennis Prager. He was comparing it to the way global warming skeptics are treated today. From another source...
“But the theory was controversial. The scientific establishment believed in an eternal universe, and many cosmologists were reluctant to accept a theory that smacked of divine creation. Hence, Fred Hoyle proposed an alternative Steady State model in which the universe was both expanding and eternal. However, even though Hoyle was an opponent of the Big Bang theory, it was he who christened the theory, referring to it disdainfully in a radio broadcast as “this ‘Big Bang’ idea”. The name stuck, and so did Hoyle’s opposition to the theory.”
“The stage was set for a major battle between the two camps – Big Bang versus Steady State. It would take the rest of the twentieth century to resolve the conflict, with both sides desperately searching for evidence to shore up their own theory and crush the opposition. The battle for cosmic truth would involve politics, religion, bitter disputes, nuclear physics, satellites, telescopes, a supposed echo from the Big Bang, and remarkable serendipity, resulting in one of the greatest adventures in the history of science.”
http://simonsingh.net/books/big-bang/the-book/
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