Posted on 10/23/2006 9:30:05 PM PDT by Creationist
From “The Evolution Handbook” by Vance Ferrell, B.A., M.A., B.D
Printing 2005
From Chapter 2, pages 68-70
Part 1
The Big Bang And Stellar Evolution
Why the Big Bang is a fizzle And stars cannot evolve out of gas Introduction Look about you. There are clouds, seas, and mountains, grass carpets, the plains; and birds sing in the trees. Farm animals graze in the meadows, and water brooks run through the fields. In the city and country, people use their astounding minds to plan and produce intricate things. At night the stars come out, and overhead are billions of stars in our galaxy. Beyond them are 100 billion island universes, each with 100 billion stars. Yet all of these things are made of matter and energy. Where did it all come from? How did everything begin--all the wonderful things of life and nature? Evolutionist scientist tell us that it all came from nothing, Yes, nothing. That is what is being taught to your friends, children, and loved ones. You need to know the facts. In this chapter we shall briefly view what evolutionist scientist teach about the origin of matter, stars, galaxies, and planets; -- and we will give you basic scientific reasons why their cosmological theories are incorrect. (Cosmology is the word used for theories about the origin of matter and stellar objects.) 1 - THE BIG BANG THEORY The Big Bang theory has been accepted by a majority of scientists today. It theorizes that a large quantity of nothing decided to pack tightly together,--and then explode outward into hydrogen and helium. This gas is said to have flowed outward through frictionless space ( “frictionless,” so the out flowing gas cannot stop or slow down) to eventually form stars, galaxies, planets, and moons. It all sounds so simple, just as you would find in a science fiction novel. And that is all it is. WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT
The originators -- *George Lemaitre, a Belgian, struck on the basic idea in 1927; and *George Gamow, *R.A. Alpher, and *R. Herman devised the basic Big Bang model in 1948. But it was Gamow, a well-known scientist and science fiction writer, that gave it its present name and then popularized it (*Isaac Asimov, Asimov’s New Guide to Science, 1984, p. 43). Campaigning for the idea enthusiastically, he was able to convince many other scientists. He used quaint little cartoons to emphasize the details. The cartoons really helped sell the theory. The theory--According to this theory, in the beginning, there was no matter, just nothingness. Then this nothingness condensed by gravity into a single, tiny spot; and it decided to explode! That explosion produced protons, neutrons, and electrons which flowed outward at incredible speed throughout empty space; for there was no other matter in the universe. As these protons, neutrons, and electrons hurled themselves outward at supersonic speed, they are said to have formed themselves into typical atomic structures of mutually orbiting hydrogen and helium atoms. Gradually, the outward racing atoms are said to have begun circling one another, producing gas clouds which the pushed together into stars. These first stars only contained lighter elements (hydrogen and helium). Then all of the stars repeatedly exploded. It took at least two explosions of each star to produce our heavier elements. Gamow described it in scientific terms: In violation of physical law, emptiness fled from the vacuum of space--and rushed into a super dense core, that had a density of 10to the 94power gm/cm squared and a temperature in excess of 10 to the 39th power degrees absolute. That is a lot of density and heat for a gigantic pile of nothingness! (Especially when we realize that it is impossible for nothing to get hot. Although air gets hot, air is matter, not an absence of it.) Where did this “super dense core” come from? Gamow solemnly came up with at scientific anser for this; he said it came as a result of “the big squeeze,” when the emptiness made up its mind to crowd together. Then, with true scientific aplomb, he named this solid core of nothing, “ylem” (pronounced “ee-lum”). With a name like that , many people thought this must be a great scientific truth of some kind. In addition, numbers were provided ot add an additional scientific flair: This remarkable lack-of-anything was said by Gamow to have a density of 10 to the 145th power g/cc, or one hundred trillion times the density of water! Then all that packed-in blankness went boom!
More to come in part two.
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