[circlecity]

"If the Big Bang falls, evolutionary humanists will have to ‘scientize’ the only other position: the eternality of matter."

To do that you have to throw out the second law of thermodynamics.

[spirited irish]

Yes, they would, but they won’t because the stakes are much too high for them since if the Big Bang is false then it logically follows that evolution is as well. They’ll be revealed as charlatans, deceivers, stupid pagans and worse. Rather, like rats in a trap seeking a way out, they’ll revise the second law of thermodynamics if they can get away with it.

[FredZarguna]

No, you don't. You only have to assume that at every previous time the entropy of the universe was less than it was in succeeding instants.

That assumption, by the way, is already present in the Big Bang. I have had this conversation (fruitlessly) on a number of occasions on FR with Young Earth Creationists. It is a simple fact: if the Second Law is true, the minimum entropy point was at The Singularity. It is not even particularly remarkable.