Anecdotal:
A lot of people have been talking to me recently about the Big Bang.
I’m a big science nut. It’s been a passion of mine since I was a kid - I’m a nerd. Carl Sagan is a hero of mine.
But I do not believe in the Big Bang. And it seems that all the godless and secular that approach me do. I remind them how it ridiculous it is to not believe that there is a God, A god who is clearly stated as not looking like anyone, or anything, is ridiculous to them - But the idea that all the matter in the universe was somehow compressed into a tiny atom that suddenly, with no reason, just exploded. And that there was nothing before that either.
They’ve been shutting up.
I am also fascinated with science but to me the Big Bang is evidence of God’s wonder and beauty because out of nothing the entire Universe was created. The secular left celebrates science but does not want to talk about what the Big Bang implies which is creation.
Funny, the Big Bang always made sense to me as a Christian. God raised his mighty hands and KABLAMY!
I consider myself a scientific Christian. Science is built upon cause and effect. And yes, nobody can tell me how the original mass came to be, nor why it suddenly, absent apparently of any outside Force, went critical. But I know.
I’ve heard this as a counter-argument as well:
When matter is created from energy, equal amounts of matter and anti-matter are created, and there isn’t enough anti-matter.
Actually some of them, like Green, subconsciously are confused about the big bang. He went on to talk about the “fact” that there would be no centrifugal force felt if a single particle with no other references to spin from would exist.
Hence the singularity issue of the big bang seems false, there has to be an entity next to it so that the movements and laws of the heavens have a reference to which they behave.
Furthermore, a black hole might “crush” itself into a knot that becomes meaningless through entropy. But I disgree with the “Perpetual Motion machine” pipe dream of the black hole theory. It still is the same sinful mindset of godless fear that animates those theories.
What if there was a renewal? Ie, we do not go to another somewhere or somewhen in a wormhole, but a completely new somewhere and somewhen occures.
If matter disappears here, what is left is the whole universe. And the whole universe now and then is still the same size.